Madison County commissioners learned Dec. 26 that the state government has approved four roads for resurfacing in 2012.
Funding for the roads will be provided through the Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) program, formerly known as the Local Assistance for Roads Program (LARP).
Each commissioner applied for work in his district, providing a first and second road choice to the state. District 1 commissioner Stanley Thomas submitted Sanford Nicholson Road as his top choice. But that road has since been resurfaced.
The state agreed to resurface the other four roads submitted by commissioners. Those roads include: Friendship Church Road, 2.96 miles, from Hwy. 98 to Hwy. 174; Helican Springs Road, 1.45 miles, from Sanford Road to the Clarke County line; J. David Road, 1 mile, from Booger Hill Road to Hammond Williams Road; and Foote McClellan Road, 2.2 miles, from Hwy. 72 to Spratlin Mill Road.
“We got more than we’ve gotten in a long time,” said BOC commission chairman Anthony Dove, regarding the LMIG road commitments from the state.
Dove said other roads resurfacing sought by the county through LMIG are as follows: Blacks Creek Church Road, 4 miles; Jones Chapel Shiloh Road, 2.2 miles; Adams Duncan Road, 1.4 miles; New Haven Church Road, 2.8 miles; and Colbert-Danielsville Road, 1.7 miles.
Monday’s county commission meeting was brief and uneventful. The board agreed to renew maintenance contracts on financial software, cardiac monitors and ambulance stretchers.
The BOC approved speed limit signs on a number of roads, including 25 mph signs on Oak View Drive, Davis Street, Hannah Heights Drive, Brownwood Drive, Rice Drive, Amberly Drive, Belhaven Lane, Creekwood Drive, Creek Drive, Kylas Way, Roy Woods Road and Pittman Mathews Road. Thirty five mph signs were approved on Clark Circle, Smith Road, Musket Ridge Road and Dogwood Drive. Two 45 mph signs were approved on James Holcomb Road.
The board approved Rodney Willis as a full-time EMT/paramedic, replacing the retiring Larry Bridges. The group approved a beer and wine license for the new owner of the Williams store on Hwy. 29, in what was formerly Strickland’s Grocery.
Dove said the board will need to set its 2012 county policies in January, adding that the group needs to set a policy on indigent burials.
“With the economy the way it is, we may continue to have more of these,” he said. “We need to have a set policy on it.”
The county commissioners will meet again Jan. 9.
