County engineers outline completed road‑safety work, federal grant applications and $646,325 emergency repair contract

County engineer Susan Eugenas updated commissioners on a suite of public‑works items. She said the countywide delineators replacement project is complete at $154,886 (about $5,000 under the original bid) and was funded primarily through the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HISIP), which reimburses roughly 90 percent of eligible costs.

Eugenas described an amendment request to a consultant (RH2 Engineering) for $45,500 to prepare the specific engineering and archaeological reporting required to secure more than $1 million in congressionally delegated federal funds for the Riderwood supplemental water‑source project.

She outlined six fish‑barrier removal applications being completed for submission to a state program, noting one particularly large design estimate of approximately $815,000 because of location and traffic control requirements. The county is working with the Lower Columbia Fish Barrier Removal Group to prioritize sites and must provide a 15 percent local match on projects.

Eugenas described an emergency contract for Barnes Drive emergency repairs structured as a unit‑price contract with a not‑to‑exceed or estimated value of $646,325; crews are filling and preparing for paving depending on weather and coordination with a private paving vendor.

Separately, facilities staff presented a sole‑source purchase on the consent agenda to replace a failing fire panel at the juvenile facility; the panel replacement price was reported at $49,800, while full‑system replacement bids would have approached $120,000. Legal reviewed the sole‑source justification because other vendors required extensive system overhauls that were not compatible with existing components.

Commissioners were advised that designs, grant ranks and governor approval timelines will determine which projects receive funding; no contract awards or final board votes were recorded in the workshop transcript.