Heard County awards road‑paving contracts and ratifies millings sale amid numeric discrepancy

The Heard County Board of Commissioners on March 21 unanimously awarded several road-paving contracts and ratified a sales contract for millings and dirt.

Public Works Director Darold Wiggins presented bids for asphalt resurfacing, surface treatment and HA5. The board voted to award asphalt resurfacing to C.W. Matthews Contracting for $1,501,800; the surface-treatment contract was awarded to The Scruggs Company for $860,770.10; the HA5 contract was awarded to Holbrook Asphalt for $65,588. Each award was approved by unanimous vote after motions and seconds recorded in the minutes.

Wiggins also described terms of a sales contract with E.R. Snell: he said the company would deliver 1,670 loads of millings for $312,290 and would purchase 423 loads of dirt from the county for $12,690. The board voted to ratify a contract signed by Chairman Lee Boone; the minutes record a contract total of $299,600. The line items Wiggins described (millings plus dirt) sum to $324,980, creating a numeric discrepancy between the line-item totals Wiggins announced and the contract total recorded for ratification. The minutes do not provide an explanation for the difference.

All procurement votes in the minutes were recorded as unanimous among the four commissioners present — Commissioners James Perry, Larry Hooks, Larry Hammond and David Walls — following standard motions and seconds listed in the record.

The board’s actions clear the way for resurfacing and surface-treatment work to begin under the awarded contracts; the minutes do not specify project start dates, funding sources, or performance timelines.

The board adjourned after routine final items.

What happens next: The county will proceed with procurement under the awarded contracts. County staff files and the signed E.R. Snell contract should be reviewed to reconcile the differing totals recorded in the minutes.