The Guthrie County Supervisors continue to discuss building a storage unit for the secondary roads department.

Supervisor Mike Dickson says County Engineer Josh Sebern requested a cold storage unit to house secondary roads equipment, along with the chemicals and seed for the integrated roadside vegetative management (IRVM) under the same roof. The original cost estimate was $100,000 and there were two bids presented to the Supervisors earlier this month for $176,500 and $177,000. Plans for the 60-by-120-foot building included overhead doors, a separate room that would be heated and cooled for the IRVM chemicals, with a cement floor. Dickson explains what he and other Supervisors decided to do with the bids.

“The Board has decided to reject those bids. They came in a lot higher. The Board has decided that we would like to re-bid it, take some specs out of the building and get that down more around where it was budgeted for and feasible.”

Sebern presented new plans to the Supervisors at their meeting on Tuesday. The new plans call for just a shell of a building with framed-in doorways and no doors. It would also include a rock floor instead of a cement floor and possibly install a window air-conditioning unit for the IRVM chemicals and seed storage.

Sebern will accept bids until mid-September.