Meeting recap
Washington County commissioners
Date: Sept. 6
Action: The board added $27,600 to its contract with GAI Engineering, Planning and Environmental Consulting to design and prepare a site for additional picnic shelters on Thompson Hill at Cross Creek County Park. The addition brings the contract amount to $101,100, and the firm will be paid from natural gas lease funds generated by wells in the park.
The commissioners also entered into a $19,500 contract with Stiffler McGraw Engineers, Surveyors and Architects to complete bid documents and design interior improvements to the Henry House in Mingo Creek County Park so it can be used as a shelter, also to be paid from the park’s natural gas lease funds.
For bridge projects Pike Run No. 24, adjacent to Deems Park in West Pike Run Township, and Cross Creek No. 5, Browntown, Independence Township, the county will be seeking an engineer to design and obtain permits for replacement spans in 2020. The projects will use Act 13 money from unconventional gas wells.
The commissioners awarded a $79,967 contract to Scalise Industries for a Courthouse Square boiler.
Morgan Excavating LP will require an additional $26,630 to shore up flood-related landslides at Mingo park.
The county plans to purchase a 2019 Ford Expedition Max XLT on behalf of Coroner Timothy Warco from Woltz and Wind Ford for $66,854. Eighty-two percent of the purchase price will be paid from an act that funds coroners’ offices.
At the request of the redevelopment authority, which oversees the county airport, the commissioners entered into an agreement with Suburban Propane LP to provide and install two 1,000-gallon propane tanks, including an initial delivery of fuel, at a total cost of $7,800, to be paid with Act 13 funds. The propane will be backup fuel for the backup dispatch center in case natural gas is unavailable.
The contract attorney Megan Patrick has with the Children and Youth Services agency this year was increased by $2,500 to $37,500. Her court assignment is to investigate solutions that would be in the best interest of a child.
The county will be applying for a $7,797 recycling performance grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection to claim 1,559 tons of material collected in communities not mandated to pick up recyclables.
Next meeting: 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the public meeting room of the Courthouse Square office building.