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Hall County board Chairman Bud Jeffries said he expects to hear moaning from Doniphan on Tuesday.
The county board is set to approve its one- and six-year road improvement plan for 2008 through 2013 following a 10 a.m. public hearing on Tuesday. It's a $570,000 plan.
Nowhere in the plan is the paving on South Locust Street that Doniphan residents have been seeking for decades.
"I know they'll have a fit about it," Jeffries said.
Two Doniphan residents already have.
John Amick and Bill Hayes, both of Doniphan and both on the Regional Planning Commission, told the Planning Commission they want the paving completed on South Locust Street at the Hall/Adams county line.
"I'm frustrated there's nothing we can do," Amick said.
Amick said with the bulk of the county board members from Grand Island, the county's surveyor and road superintendent, Casey Sherlock, is simply hamstrung when it comes to meeting rural road requests.
Jeffries said the issue is simply one of financial priorities. The county has planned to focus on replacing bad bridges instead of creating new asphalt that will need future maintenance.
He said there's three miles remaining on that stretch of South Locust that Doniphan wants paved.
"Even if we did do (the three miles), it still won't be asphalt all the way," Jeffries said, noting that Adams County officials have indicated no plans to pave its mile of South Locust just across the county line.
Jeffries said Hall County needs to put its money into higher traffic roads, school bus routes, mail routes not "the good old boy system" of roads funding that has occurred in the past.
Amick said South Locust is a school bus route and has higher traffic volumes than many of the proposed county bridge projects.
"Our road project has more traffic count granted, we can't let the bridges fall down, but we can close the bridges," Amick said. "We get slighted on the road budget year (after) year."
On the agenda
Other issues before the county board Tuesday include:
A closed session on litigation involving Abacus Business Systems. The county filed a July 2006 lawsuit against Abacus alleging that the company had overbilled the county about $1.7 million for computer management services. Abacus owners Will and Joanne Bennett filed a counterclaim against the county in July 2007.
Hear a request from the treasurer and assessor about a new TerraScan system for property value and tax record keeping and discuss funding for a pilot project involving TerraScan.
Discuss and take action on legislative bills.
Meet in closed session for a performance evaluation.
If you go
What: Hall County board meeting
When: 9 a.m. Tuesday
Where: Hall County Administration Building, 121 S. Pine St.
Topics: County road improvement plan, litigation involving Abacus Business Systems.
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