| Show counties face order to 0 help pay road costs in changed state policy co county an ty co commissioners at times assume a somewhat different attitude toward the purchase se of highway A ay r gats of way when the county t Is not financially interested in the transaction so marked has this fact become that the state roid 1 I d commission recently ro cec i policy of insisting that at least 10 per cent of the cost of purchasing of way for con projects ifrain from now on shall be borne bome by the count counties acs ics themselves until I 1 about a acar ear ago it was necessary essaiy for the county to vur purchase all rights of way the state la law candying bi a provision sion to that effect thi this was as written out of the law a by the last legislature with the consent of the state road com misson alss on the latter body undertook 0 believe local governments ot 01 such a burden but still elp exp acted the cooperation pe ration of the county OM officials cals as interested in ili highway pic pi egress gress alloe however er instead of buol cooperating aerating wholeheartedly whole hole N heartedly instance were ere found alere w ere county commissions did not e even ean an ron r ci f ent themselves ies with a hands off policy but went so far as to encourage the of prices which the state road com coin nession considered consider consi derei ec exorbitant this notwithstanding the fact that thai the county commiss commissioners loi aers were mere usually 1 the representatives of the state in making the negotiations when the situation naas w as called to the attention of the state road commission by H S kerr herr now right of dav aa agent the approved his recommendation that the county shall be required and to participate in the costs to the extent indicated and in caie cae ca ie it becomes necessary to file action in the courts the county me als ais shall mo cooperate in baing ing the action to a successful con clus aclus on this probably will respire reri ire a re bump of the rf 11 agreements between the comity and the state at least to the extent that the county officials shall obligate themselves to cooperate with the state in such matters having r net let with one or two ficula situations the state will adopt the policy it was announced by K C blight eng enginger inper recently of adNer advertising no projects for bids cr at an rate of awarding no contracts until lights light of atai aa necessary essaiy have hae len L en obeal ed i sut li pulley ol of course can apply I 1 lorly 0 r I 1 y to projects project not already advanced alced to such a s sage ale en cn the pro gram that negotiations are initiated as ag to rights of way mf wright with ohp th first of the month was in full charge of the executive df department of the state road as engineer E 0 Kno knowlton Alton assistant engineer kill all assume charge of the construction construct end of t ane tie states state s activities 1 tie s ann S D gate cate doimer district engineer will alu be assistant assi start engineer with maintenance as his especial held TrIbU Tri bunt lIL |
