21 streets included in $1.8M overlay project
Work should begin soon on resurfacing 21 streets in Madison County after the Madison County Board of Supervisors on Monday awarded a $1.8 million contract to ADCAMP Inc. to do the work.
Madison County Engineer Tim Bryan said the contractor plans to begin the work soon.
“We hope to get started within the next month and they have got five months to complete it,” Bryan said.
County streets included in the countywide roadway resurfacing project are Clarkdell Rd/Clarkdell Extension, Greenoak Lane, Old Rice Road, Quail Hollow, Devlin Springs Drive, Deer Creek Drive, Deer Creek Cove, Springwater Cove, S. Branch Street, N. Branch Street, Clear Creek Street, Devlin Drive, Woodridge Drive, Oak Grove, Cedar Creek Drive, Caroline Boulevard, Stokes Road, Cedar Green Drive, Kings Crossing, Richmond Way and Knotting Hill Place.
Bryan told supervisors Monday that the county received several bids on the project and ADCAMP Inc.’s bid was the lowest.
“I ask that you award that contract and allow the board president to sign the contract when it is returned,” Bryan said.
Bryan told supervisors the ADCAMP Inc. bid saved the county $3 per ton of asphalt with a total of 17,000 tons for a total of $51,000 in savings over the previous contract.
In other matters during Monday’s Madison County Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisors:
• Heard a report from Brent Bailey, Central District Mississippi Public Service Commissioner, on efforts to bring broadband internet to rural areas of the state and potential avenues for funding the future project.
• Held public hearings on tax matters for two properties at which no one appeared to dispute the tax matters and the board unanimously approved the tax assessor’s recommendations on the properties.
• Unanimously agreed at the request of District 3 Supervisor Gerald Steen to send a letter to the Mississippi Insurance Commission office seeking the office’s assistance in funding for a ladder fire truck for the county’s industrial mega-site that will be home to an Amazon distribution center.
• Unanimously agreed to renew a Mississippi Association of Supervisors Insurance Trust policy with Brian Johnson, Fisher Brown Bottrell for an annual contribution of $756,944.53.
• Unanimously agreed to pay no more than $15,000 for Stantec Consulting Services Inc. to conduct a conceptual layout and opinion of probable cost for the intersection of Stribling Road at Mississippi 463 where a school will be located. Supervisors said they would ask the school board and the state to help with the overall costs.
• Unanimously agreed to award a contract to Mendrop Engineering Resources, LL. for a sum not to exceed $34,868 to provide CE&I services for the Way Road and Banks Road Culvert Replacement Project.
• Unanimously acknowledged Gov. Tate Reeves' latest COVID-19 orders.
• Unanimously agreed to pay a $275 invoice to MEA Drug Testing Clinics.
• Unanimously adopted a countywide drug testing policy for Madison County employees but not elected officials' offices, which will independently consider their own testing policies. The only county employees not included in the county drug testing policy are employees of the Geographical Information department.