Supervisors receive bids for bridge project

A total of six bids were received for the replacement of bridge D5 in the northwest corner of Grundy County during Monday morning’s regular meeting of the board of supervisors.
           
The bridge is located just east of T13 in German township north of Wellsburg, and the bids received were as follows: $196,750 from Boulder Contracting of Grundy Center (pre-cast only), $116,976 from Iowa Bridge and Culvert of Washington, IA (cast in place), $120,250 from PCI of Reinbeck (pre-cast box culvert only), $114,449 from Gus Construction of Casey (cast in place), $134,553 from K Construction of Elkader (cast in place) and $135,146.30 from McCulley Culvert of Barnes City. No action was taken on the bids after county engineer Gary Mauer opened them and read them aloud, and a motion to table them passed 3-0 (Jim Ross and Mark Schildroth were absent). 
           
A speaker attended the meeting to inform the board of her plans to read from the Bible on the courthouse lawn after Governor Terry Branstad signed a proclamation encouraging such practices in May. 
 
Read more in this week's Grundy Register.