Stoddard County Commissioners met in a regular meeting on Monday, September 19, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.
Duck Creek Township representatives Matt Taylor and Doug Lowery were on the Agenda for 9:15 a.m.
Duck Creek Township would like to apply for a grant to resurface County Road 250 also known as Brown Church Road. The road is approximately one and 3/4 mile long. It has been patched and layed over several times. They would like to apply for this grant through the Stoddard County Commission for $500,000. Duck Creek Township is doing an in-kind contribution to replace five culverts and shoulder groundwork along the road.
Presiding Danny Talkington said they will publish it in the Dexter Statesman to get a bid to help with the grant application. Deadline will be October 10, 2022. The actual grant application deadline is December 19, 2022.
Motion to obtain administrative services quote via a bid process to help Duck Creek Township apply for $500,000 Community Development Block Grant. Commissioner Steve Jordan made the motion, Commissioner Carol Jarrell seconded the motion. All three voted yes.
Representatives from Bootheel Regional Planning Commission attended the meeting. Katelyn Lambert, Asst. Executive Director to BRPC had scoring sheets from five engineering designers that were received by the Puxico Board of Alderman. City of Puxico chose Conexon out of Kansas City, Missouri. She kept them in order of submission and all submitted requests for the broadband designs were in prior to the deadline. This information was to decide on an engineers for the design of the project. Wayne County still needs to submit their engineering information at this time.
Motion made to table the decision on the broadband engineering/designing quote until the Commission has a chance to have a work session to discuss. Motion made by Commissioner Steve Jordan, Commissioner Jarrell seconded. All voted yes.
Motion made by Commissioner Jarrell to approve expenditure to Asa Asphalt of Cape Girardeau, MO of $26,970.17 to resurface Court Street from Prairie Street to Viola Street, then resurface Prairie Street from Viola Street to Seneca Street, and resurface Viola Street from Seneca Street to Court Street that surrounds the new county jail. This will cover areas other than what Brown Construction is doing per their contract and the city will do the parking spaces. Seconded by Commissioner Jordan. All voted yes.
Commissioner Jordan made a motion to accept the minutes from the September 12th meeting. Commissioner Jarrell seconded. All three voted yes.
Motion made by Commissioner Jordan to put MacKenzie Farmer on the board for Water District #5. Commissioner Jarrell seconded. All three voted yes.
Commissioner Jarrell made a motion to adjourn at 12:23 p.m. Commissioner Jorden seconded the motion. All three voted yes.
