Portion Of River Road To Be Closed As Crews Repair Bridge The majority of this week’s Greenwood County Commission meeting was held in executive session. Although the meeting was 67 minutes long, executive sessions totaled 40 minutes of the meeting.
Greenwood County Commissioners met on Monday, Oct. 6 routinely; however, following a letter from Brandon Mizner with Ensz & Jester regarding the Rader/Hoeffer road dispute, the commission held a 30-minute executive session with Mizner, County Counselor Paul Dean and Emergency Management Director Levi Vinson, to review discovery from the dispute. No action was taken.
The second executive session was with Vinson for personnel mattersevaluation, with Dean and the commission. No action was taken.
During the weekly Road and Bridge report, Supervisor Allen Greenwood shared that due to the government shutdown, the Road and Bridge Department is unable to gather Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H&H) studies. The H&H studies are used to analyze how water moves through a watershed, basin, channel or manmade structure (including culverts). The study wasn’t previously made available so the county department is unable to share findings until the government reopens.
Greenwood also shared a bid from Ramsey Concrete for a deck repair to a bridge on River Road, near 1852 160th Street. It was noted in the bid that the deck has a hole that has opened up, showing separation and reinforcement. The commission approved the bid, totaling $11,950, for Ramsey Concrete to cap and pin the split deck structure. As of presstime, it was believed the project would begin on Tuesday of this week. A portion of River Road will be closed as crews work to repair the bridge. Greenwood had noted the project was estimated to take 12 days. He further noted that a detour will be in place during the repairs. The commission also reviewed various road and bridge projects with Greenwood.
Discussion was held regarding the upcoming tax sale. It was noted that the Attorney General’s office has not yet approved the journal entry in the civil case, which has delayed the tax sale. Counselor Dean stated the state has had the journal entry for approximately three weeks. Once approved, the case will be sent to the judge for the final order to be approved. After those steps have been taken, the tax sale will be scheduled and the public notice will be published in The Eureka Herald for three weeks. As of Monday morning, the earliest the tax sale would be held would be mid-November.
Health Department Director Jayme Lewis reminded the commission that flu shots would be available next Monday in the commission meeting room for county employees.
Register of Deeds Sheila Smith shared that her office will be undergoing a computer migration on Thursday, Oct. 23. The office will remain open; however, will not be able to do data entry/requests that day due to the computers being down.
County Counselor Dean noted that he had filed a motion to dismiss on the county line road case.
The commission approved special payables for Oct. 6, totaling $12,886.82; however, another motion to amend the amount was later approved, with the total being $17,372.78. The commission also approved the Sept. 29 meeting minutes as written.
Greenwood County Commission meets weekly on Mondays at 9 a.m. Their next scheduled meeting is Monday, Oct. 13, in the commission meeting room in the Greenwood County Courthouse.
