County approves anti-dust treatment for Carlson Road

By CHRISTIE APPELHANZ

The Capital-Journal

Shawnee County public works director Mike Sease said Thursday the unusually warm weather was making it unusually difficult to control the dust on rock roads in the county.

Shawnee County commissioners on Thursday authorized Sease to spend $12,000 on a calcium chloride treatment for Carlson Road between K-4 highway and S.W. 33rd.

Although dust is a problem for many county roads, Shawnee County agreed to chip and seal that portion of Carlson Road in 1998 if Wabaunsee County would replace the bridge over Mission Creek. Sease said weather in early summer prevented his staff from completing the job.

"Since this rock was placed on the road, we have had only one small rain, which has created extremely dusty conditions," Sease said.

In addition to controlling the dust this winter, Sease said the calcium chloride will provide a solid base to prepare the road for a chip and seal. The road will be treated on Tuesday.

The commission Thursday also:

- Adopted a resolution for continuation of a local residential housing finance plan and joint issuance of Sedgwick County and Shawnee County Single Family Mortgage Revenue Refunding Bonds.

- Approved a contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas for administration of the county health benefit plan.

- Approved removing a 10-foot partitioning wall in the mapping division office for installation of workstations.

- Denied the claim of John Powers Sr. for alleged injuries caused while in custody of Shawnee County Corrections.

- Approved establishing year-end financial procedures.

- Approved soliciting bids for vehicle transport cages and seats, a Gore-Tex shell coat with zip-in Polartec bomber jacket, footwear, Gore-Tex rain pants and Cool-Max knit short-sleeve uniform shirts.

- Denied a request to solicit bids for a laser-plotting accident reconstruction tool.

- Approved the purchase of 600 residential trash totes.

- Approved soliciting bids for one roll-off hoist truck.

- Accepted a $4,080 bid from American Electric for testing equipment for Information Technology.

- Accepted a $42,980 bid from Cargill Salt for de-icing salt for Public Works.

- Approved soliciting bids for a 60-quart mixer for a kitchen at the jail.

- Approved placing a streetlight at S.W. 41st.

- Approved accepting easements for the construction and maintenance of Kaw Electric Cooperative Subdivision Street Benefit District.

- Approved accepting easements for the construction and maintenance of Urban Hills Subdivision No. 4 and 14, Street Benefit District and Shawnee County Sewer District No. 15, Lateral Sanitary Sewer District No. 4 projects.

- Set the salary for the health agency's chief financial officer at $45,000.

- Deferred an addendum to contract with Computer Associates International Inc. for software replacement.

- Referred a request to adopt a policy for employee reimbursement for education and training to the county counselor.

- Approved a contract for maintenance of GIS software.

- Approved the reappointments of Dan Kingman, Denise Peterson and Jeanne Sebree to the Shawnee Community Mental Health Center Board of Directors for three-year terms ending Dec. 31, 2002.

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