The Jasper County Board of Supervisors have approved the first reading of the Secondary Roads Departments Fiscal Year 2027 Budget. County Engineer Mike Frietsch says the spending plan includes one change from the Five Year Road Program, and that’s a one-year delay in the County Highway F-36 bridge project over Cherry Creek.
“Our Highway Bridge Program funding is currently maxed out, so we have to wait a year to let it replenish.”
Frietsch also told the county supervisors that going into the 2028 budget year, expenditures will have to be watched very closely.
“We are going to have serious conversations about contract rock and other major construction budget items, because we are going to have to hold our expenditures in 2028 at or below what we think our revenues are. We are not going to have any wiggle room.”
Also approved during Tuesday’s Jasper County Board of Supervisors meeting was a one-year labor contract with the Secondary Roads Department Employees, who are members of the Public, Professional, and Maintenance Employees Local 2003, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, and the AFL-CIO. The contract, from July 1st of this year through June 30, 2027, includes a 3% increase in base wages from August 2025.
