Supervisors defer sidewalk contractor extension request

The Calhoun County Board of Supervisors opted to take no action Sept. 20 on a request from a contractor to extend the deadline to finish pouring sidewalks around the courthouse square.
Contractor Cory Juergens of Estherville contacted Calhoun County Engineer Zac Andersen earlier this month to seek the extra time for the sidewalk work.
The project deadline is Sept. 30.
“The last time he did work here was July 28,” Andersen told the supervisors. “There were three rain days in August. I don’t feel too sorry for him at this point. If he got rained out somewhere else, why wasn’t he here working?”
Andersen and the supervisors noted that Juergens could have completed the sidewalk on the east and north side of the square. Supervisor Scott Jacobs said he has been concerned for weeks about the unfinished work on the square’s east side, which has left a gap between the street curb and the courthouse square grass. Large chunks of gravel have been left in that gap, and courthouse visitors often just step over the curb and walk through the gap. 
Read more in the Sept. 28 edition.