County OKs building repairs

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April 1, 2015 - 12:00 AM

Danny Ware will repair damage to the Moran Community/Senior Center with an open-ended contract, Allen County commissioners decided Tuesday.
Ware estimated cost at $1,500 to $4,000.
“Time element” is the variable that he had trouble nailing down, Ware said. “If it’s a set price, it would be unfair to one of us,” in that the job could take a day or two or three. Time on task won’t be known until Ware’s crew crawls through the center’s attic to determine why an end wall is leaning to the north.

DARRIN PETROWSKY, local Kansas Department of Transportation engineer, told commissioners projects involving highways 54 and 169 in Allen County would start soon.
U.S. 169 will be milled and overlaid from three-tenths of a mile south of U.S. 54 at the east edge of Iola to Welda in Anderson County. U.S. 54 will be overlaid from the east edge of LaHarpe, where last year’s upgrade ended, to the Bourbon-Allen counties line.
Iola Administrator Carl Slaugh asked about projects on U.S. 69, that connects Kansas City and Pittsburg, and why that highway received more attention than U.S. 169.
His observation, Petrowsky said, was that an association encouraging improvements to U.S. 69 touted the entire corridor, while U.S. 169 boosters were more parochial, advocating specific areas rather than the entire corridor.
Also, Petrowsky predicted maintenance of Kansas highways might get a little iffy in 2016 and after because of funding cuts for KDOT.

IN OTHER NEWS, Counselor Alan Weber told commissioners 160 samples were taken of possible hazardous material in the older Allen County Hospital. The procedure is preliminary to commissioners seeking bids for the structure’s razing.
Sheriff Bryan Murphy said he would work with the Masonic Lodge to open the county’s firing range south of the landfill. The Masons want to offer a concealed carry class, and need a place for live fire. A part of the arrangement will be a deputy, certified to teach such classes, will be involved.
Commissioners will have Weber look into provisions of the warranty on the jail roof, which has had leaks, before deciding how to proceed.
Murphy said smoke from a climate-control fan led Iola firefighters to climb onto the jail’s roof Monday evening, which created a bit of a spectacle for passersby. No fire was involved.

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