Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. May 2, 2018. Cisco Road on the east side of the lake needs to be rebuilt and refinished. County Commissioners outlined the plan to finance the road work so that it can begin this year. The engineers estimated $8.5 million which will be funded by issuing bonds by the Rich County Building Authority and Rich Special Services. The bonds will be purchased by the Utah Community Impact Board, (CIB). The CIB has given Rich County a grant of $3.7 million and has committed to a loan of $1.7 million for 15 years. The county was able to secure $1.9 million from non-urban highway funds and $500,000 State Parks Access money. The non-urban money is available in 2021-2, but the county can borrow against that anticipated money to start this year.
Later in the day, the bids were opened. Jones and DeMille of Richfield, Utah is the engineering company who prepared the bid and they supervised the opening. LaGrande Johnson (Kilgore) estimated a cost of $9,195, 560. Staker Parsons bid was $9,411,499. Whittaker Construction’s bid was $8, 877 832. The engineer ’s estimate was $7,209,235 for construction only. The bids will undergo review to see why the costs were higher than the estimate.
This project has taken about seven years to put together and could not have been done without CIB, Non-urban money and State Parks. Bill Cox has been working with all those agencies to put the deal together.
This will pave thirteen miles with a bike pathway and hopefully, there will be funding from other sources to help with sewer construction at the same time. The Rich Special Service District has declined so far to pay for that. Commissioner Bill Cox is working with them to find funding.
Cox has had additional conversations with Bear Lake County in Idaho to continue the road to the end of the lake but BLC does not have the state support Rich County has. Cisco Road is a county collector road. That is one reason there are funds for it. The County has also traded federal dollars to UDOT for state dollars which saved 20% on the cost of building.
Will not authorize until May 16 so that the bids will have all come in and the actual cost can be finalized. They will call a special meeting.
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