Oktibbeha County officials received contract bids for county road work Tuesday morning.
County Engineer Clyde Pritchard opened the bids for the work in the presence of County Administrator Emily Garrard and District 4 Supervisor Bricklee Miller.
The first bids opened were for John White Road, which resides in District 1. The companies who submitted bids for the work included Kimes & Stone Construction, Colom Construction Company Inc., Townes Construction & Ready Mix and Sitemasters Construction.
The lowest bid came from Sitemasters Construction at $468,129.58. The highest bid came from Colom Construction Company Inc. at $715,697.
Pritchard will take the lowest bid under advisement and will bring the paperwork forward to the Board of Supervisors at its next meeting for approval.
The second group of bids opened were for a large portion of roads residing in District 4. Out of the two bids for this project, the lowest bid came from Kimes & Stone Construction at $610,993 and the highest bid came from Sitemasters Construction at $781,649.05.
Miller said this group of supervisors have been particularly aggressive in terms of road maintenance and repair. She said this board will have 46 miles of road under contract.
Miller and District 1 Supervisor John Montgomery are still looking at options to get Longview Road paved despite federal funds not being released at the state level.
Miller said she is also working on getting quotes to redo Poor House Road along with several other roads in the county.
"The price of $610,000 to resurface, reclaim or pave 17 roads is a great price," Miller said. "Which will allow me to do additional projects in the future."
The next step is to bring the bids to the county for approval. After the board approves the bids, the contractor will have 120 days to complete the projects.
Below is a list of roads Kimes & Stone Construction would be responsible for:
Sturgis area
• Shaw Road
• Section of Sturgis West Point Road
• Tom Street
• Church Street
• North Montgomery Street
• North Park
• Williamson Street
• Edwards Street
• North McKinnon
• South McKinnon
Craig Springs area
• Silver Ridge Road
Starkville, South Montgomery area
• Atkinson Road
• Palace Drive
• Knight Arnold
• Colony Road
• London Way
• Stone Ridge