The campaign season has begun and candidates have signed up to run for the commissioner of Precinct #1. I plan to keep things civil and just talk about my abilities and my accomplishments, not about any real or perceived shortcomings of my opponent. Also, I will use any quotes by my opponent only in the context for which they were intended. As for the road crew, we continue to cut trees. We were fortunate to partner with Kenny Hawkins at AEP and Greg Russell at Bowie-Cass on many trees that were close to or would involve power lines. Their contractors trimmed the trees under the lines and we would then take them to the ground. Many thanks to those who helped us get this done.
We installed a culvert for Mr. Marcentel on CR 1364 and installed a culvert on CR 1317 across the road, replacing a badly corroded one. Much time has been spent on small jobs as we try to negotiate the remaining vacation time for the employees. Maintenance of the equipment, straightening the shop, etc. have been done during December while the crew got in their deer hun.., I mean their vacation time in. We badly need to shovel patch next week if we get some dry weather. We did do some late season scabbing on CR 1360 and CR1361. CR 1695 also had some places that we scabbed due to heavy truck traffic. The rest of the time was spent doing what we've been doing since September; cutting Red Oaks and pine trees.