Highway staff present tire bid results; Noble Road work continues

Interim Highway Administrator Rod Michaud and Highway Department Office Clerk Lisa Widen told the Cloud County Board of Commissioners on May 13 that the department had received and reviewed competitive bids for county tires and provided an update on spring maintenance operations.

Michaud and Widen identified three winning bids: Budreau Muffler for $8,010.30, Commercial Tire for $17,288.00 and Kansasland Tire for $1,843.17. Michaud also reported on the department's chemical inventory, said mowers would begin work that week, and said crews will continue work on Noble Road farther east.

The presentation was delivered during the board's regular session; the commissioners did not record further discussion or a contested decision about vendor selection in the minutes. Roadwork and equipment-start schedules were presented as operational updates rather than as actions requiring separate board approval.

Because the meeting record is provided as official proceedings rather than a verbatim transcript, exact speaker quotations are not available; the account above paraphrases the staff report recorded in the minutes.

The board included highway matters on its agenda alongside other county business and recessed briefly for an executive session on personnel that morning before continuing the agenda.