Also approve secondary roads’ 5-year plan
The Greene County board of supervisors at their April 6 meeting approved road closures and detour routes for three upcoming county roads projects.
In Grant Township, Parkland Ave will be closed to all vehicular traffic from 222nd St south to county road E-53 (235th St) to allow for bridge replacement.
In Junction Township, X Ave will be closed to vehicular traffic from 200th St south to 210th St to allow for bridge replacement.
Both are gravel roads. Detours will not be marked.
Portions of county roads E-26 and P-46 are scheduled for reconstruction, requiring road closures and detour routes.
E-26 (170th St, “the Dana pavement”) will be closed from Hwy 144 east to the Boone County line. That includes the mile of P-46 that runs east-west between W and X Ave.
The posted detour will utilize Hwy 144 between Dana and Grand Junction, Hwy 30 east to Hwy 169, then north five miles back to E-26 in Boone County.
County engineer Wade Weiss said the contractor wants to begin the project as soon as possible. That will determine when the roads are closed.
The supervisors also approved the secondary roads budget and the 5-year construction program.
The budget for the coming fiscal year anticipates total receipts of $8,545,056, with $1,475,831 of that total coming from property taxes. Road use taxes (collected and disbursed by the state) account for $3,683,673 of the total.
Expenditures total $7,756,803.
The 5-year plan includes a total of 11 projects as follows:
2027- E-26 bridge replacement, E-26 just east of Hwy 4 in Hardin Township, $900,000; and E-26 bridge rehabilitation west of P-33, also in Hardin Township, $400,000;
2028 – N-58 hot melt asphalt overlay just north of Hwy 30 in Kendrick Township, $600,000; N-58 HMA overlay just south of Ralston in Scranton Township, $1,600,000; E-57 bridge replacement east of N-58, $900,000 in Willow Township; E-57 bridge replacement just east of Rippey, $600,000 in Washington Township; and 140th St bridge replacement just east of Hwy 4 in Dawson Township, $600,000;
2029 – 230th St bridge replacement east of Scranton in Jackson Township, $450,000; and
2030 – E-33 bridge replacement on near Farlin in Bristol Township, $900,000.
The supervisors approved hiring Eric Thompson as fulltime IT director for the county, effective April 13. His yearly sale will be $85,000.
The meeting was preceded by a public hearing on the proposed property tax levy rates for Fiscal Year 2027 (begins July 1, 2026). The general basic levy (paid on all property in the county) decreases from 3.489 (per $1000 in taxable valuation) in the current year to 3.4209 in the coming year. The rural basic levy (paid on property not in an incorporated city) decreases from 2.998 to 2.968.
The debt service levy (for the 911 tower and the new jail) decreases from 1.067 to 1.019. No comments were received, but auditor Billie Jo Hoskins said she had received a few phone calls when levy and public hearing notices were mailed in mid-March.
Hoskins also noted that the mailed notices did not include all taxing entities, naming Greene County Medical Center and Greene County Extension as examples.
