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41st Annual Darke County Engineer’s Report
for 2018
By Jim Surber P.E., P.S. Darke County Engineer
This report shows all money received for the year, how it was spent,
and what it maintained, constructed, purchased, or improved. Our goal
is always to maximize the percentage of total funds spent on road and
bridge improvements, and for 2018 the amount was $2,328,179.80, or 40.9
percent.
The 2018 construction season will be remembered for high temperatures
and exceptionally abundant rainfall, making construction and roadside
mowing more challenging. We continued to perform all types of road and
bridge work, with the exceptions of asphalt paving and painting the
no-passing and pavement edge lines.
Besides snow/ice control, roadside mowing, and normal maintenance over
522 road miles, our people performed 16 different construction projects
on bridges and culverts, applied surface chip-sealing to over 16 miles
of road, and replaced 16 culverts on County and Township roads.
The costs of road materials and equipment maintenance continue to rise
much faster than other costs, demanding increasing amounts of available
revenue. Consider that our revenue for 2006 was $5,183,892, and was
$5,143,153 for 2017. Thanks to a local license fee increase that began
in 2018, our revenue for last year increased $381,908.89. This was very
much needed and appreciated, and is an actual increase of 7.4% over
thirteen years.
Spending for the year was $142,502.22 greater than 2017, but
$378,204.38 less than the total receipts. The artificial increase in
total receipts was from reimbursements and sale of equipment assets.
Our employees continue their great job of performing road and bridge
maintenance and construction responsibilities. We are now equipped to
surface-seal more roads with County personnel and equipment.
Readers may contact us with any questions or comments. Phone:
937-547-7375 or email: dce@earthlink.net
For the complete report, see attached.
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