- Dates
- 2015-07-24 – 2015-10-31
- Kind
- Procurement
- Where
- Donegal Bay Road
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationinfrastructuregovernancepublic-finance
- Within
- Donegal Bay Road
Summary
In July 2015, a Beaver Island forum thread reproduced a County Road Commission bid description for work at four engineer-staked locations on Donegal Bay Road, between Indian Point Road and Gull Island Road. The described scope included clearing, stump removal, excavation and bank resloping, aggregate placement, and restoration, with completion targeted for October 31.
Evidence limits
The bid description is preserved through a forum participant rather than a held county bid packet. The thread also contains a projected cost and community dispute about omitted road sections and township road funds; those claims are not treated as official financial findings. The record does not establish the winning bidder, final cost, completion, or resulting road condition.
Sources
- A Port of St. James Association appeal and a prospective bidder describe an earlier proposal for tree removal, regrading, and gravel on sections from the resale shop toward the cell tower and Font Lake Court. The thread documents an apparently unapproved or delayed proposal, not authorization, completion, cost, or the legality of any fund transfer asserted in later replies.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t008321
- The thread reproduces a County Road Commission bid description for four engineer-staked locations between Indian Point Road and Gull Island Road: clearing, stump removal, excavation/resloping, aggregate placement, and restoration, with work scheduled after September 8 and completion by October 31. A participant gives a projected $62,000 cost and says St. James Township would pay. Other posts question why the S curve and road fund were excluded; those funding, accounting, and motive claims are community assertions, not adopted findings.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009130
- A December post said the writer saw no apparent improvement after driving Donegal Bay Road and questioned whether the work had been vetted and who performed it. This is a personal observation and public question, not an engineering inspection or completion record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009674
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Donegal Bay Road widening and drainage work is bid for selected locations, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-donegal-bay-road-widening-bid-2015/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Road Work on Donegal Bay Road,” January 6–April 26, 2015. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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