(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisors in Montgomery County, Tuesday morning, acknowledged reciept of an initial bargaining proposal from the Union representing the County’s Secondary Roads Department. The Board passed a Resolution authorizing Montgomery County Engineer Karen Albert to submit an application for a $500,000 Fiscal Year 2024 Surface Transportation Block Grant, to repair a road that’s been on the County’s five-year construction plan”for quite a while,” according to Albert.

In order to qualify for the grant, the County must agree to certain stipulations. Supervisor Donna Robinson read the conditions set forth in the Resolution the Board approved.

The application deadline is January 31st. The project is expected to go out for a local bid-letting in May or June, 2024. Albert then updated the Board on Secondary Roads Department projects.

She mentioned also her department is still seeking applicants to fill a truck driver position.

In other business, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors approved the final plans for the L Avenue pipe culvert project.