Harrison commissioners table Freeport sewer bids

Harrison County commissioners opened bids Feb. 11 for the Freeport sewer connection project, then tabled the proposals for review.

Bids were received from JT’s Excavating and Aggregate LLC for $224,557; TDT Septic and Excavating LLC for $166,640; Theaker and Son Excavating Inc. for $245,483.05; and Back Country Construction LLC for $259,543.

Commissioner Dustin Corder’s motion for tabling the bids to review for “accuracy and completeness” was approved. He said the bid would be awarded by the end of February.

The board also announced the Community Housing Impact and Preservation Grant bids but with only one being received. That came from Ohio Regional Development Corporation where Corder said of the $48,000 that Ohio Regional Development Corporation will claim $43,000 of that leaving the county with $5,000 in order to cover administrative costs. This was tabled as well.

Director for Jobs & Family Services Deb Knight came to the board with a Memorandum of Understanding regarding Family and Children First. Knight said it’s a group created by an Ohio statute where they assist families with multi-need children.

“For the last couple of years we served as the administrative agent for Family and Children First,” Knight said.

She said effective from the first of the year Belmont County J&FS will take on that responsibility where they employ the coordinator and administrator that serves both Belmont and Harrison Counties.

“So, this is a document requested by Belmont County that has all of us who participate in Family and Children First agreeing that they will be an administrative entity and that they will employ the coordinator,” Knight told the board. “So, that’s all that this is.”

The commissioner approved of the MOU unanimously.

Also, Corder read a legal notice announcing the receiving of sealed bids until 9:45 a.m. March 6 and read at 10 a.m. The bids are for ashes, asphalt concrete, motor vehicle fuel, ice control grits, limestone, ready-mix concrete, sand and gravel and bituminous asphalt emulsions.