Four companies have submitted contract bids for road repairs in Lake Township.
 
Township trustees opened the bids Tuesday for improvements to Isch, Ayers, Latcha, and Lakehurst roads but didn’t award a contract. Instead, the trustees directed Dan McLargin, roads supervisor, to review the bids and submit a recommendation at their next meeting.
 
Bidding for the work were Geddis Paving & Excavating, Toledo; Bowers Asphalt & Paving, Walbridge; Gerken Paving, Napoleon, and Shelly Co., Maumee.
 
Gerken submitted the lowest bids:  Isch Road - $33,835; Ayers Road - $85,669; Latcha Road - $96,017, and Lakehurst - $33,489.
 
Shelly Co. didn’t submit a bid for the Lakehurst project.
 
In related business, the trustees authorized the expenditure of $1,022 for additional asphalt for repairs to Wagoner Road.

The trustees are anticipating additional revenue for road repairs this year after voters in November replaced a 1.5-mill property tax for the road improvement fund.
 
As part of the annual appropriations for 2011, approximately $377,500 was set aside for the fund.
 
In recent years, the township has only been able to complete 1.5 miles of road repairs annually, the trustees have said. That’s about half of what the repair program covered 10 years ago.
 
Then costs for material began climbing sharply to the point it cost the township about $60,000 a mile for repairs in 2009.
 
The trustees Tuesday also approved change orders for the new township administration building, which opened last month. The former building was destroyed by a June 2010 tornado,
 
Approximately $345,573 in additional costs for sitework, asphalt paving, installing a 125-kilowatt diesel generator, and landscaping were approved as were $223,413 for required building code upgrades, security systems, and communications systems.
 
Insurance will cover about $230,000 of the changes – primarily for the code upgrades, said Mark Hummer, township administrator and police chief.
 
The trustees earlier this year assumed a $500,000 loan from Genoa Bank to cover additional costs for the new building.
  
An additional parking area and driveway are not covered by insurance as well as much of the exterior lighting and a memorial site dedicated to victims of the tornado. About $10,000 in labor and materials were donated for the site.
  
With the changes, the new building is costing about $2.2 million.

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