911 offers cost savings to St. Robert PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 8, 2019) — Ongoing litigation with the City of Saint Robert, Missouri sent the Pulaski Couny 911 Board into closed session Friday morning, but didn't prevent members from explaining the terms of a proposal 911 will offer to the city to reduce the city's costs. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
County boiler repair expected to run $60,000 PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 7, 2019) — During a mostly quiet county commission meeting in Thursday, commissioners agreed to send out bids for the courthouse boiler system.
"We've got three of them," said Presiding Commissioner Gene Newkirk. "One's running, one's done for, and we're using it for parts to keep the one running." Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
(Photo by Gene Newkirk) Flames shoot through the roof of the Point Lookout apartments Wednesday afternoon.
Commissioners OK Reese bid for jail, say it's the lowest PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 5, 2019) — Rejecting a claim made Monday by a representative of Bales Construction that Reese Construction isn't the lowest bidder for a jail construction project expected to run about $14 million, commissioners in special session Tuesday voted unanimously to award a $14.05 million jail construction bid to Reese. Groundbreaking is scheduled for Friday, March 22. At Monday's regular meeting, Ladon Curran of Bales Construction said a bid calculation error shows that Reese was not the lowest bidder and a multiprime bid came in several hundred thousand dollars lower. "I don't like people going around saying I'm crooked," said Jail Study Committee Chairman Zach Shepherd. "It's ironic that six weeks after the fact he comes back and says we're cheats," said Western District Commissioner Ricky Zweerink. "We got a jail started, finally." Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
County's jail construction bid of $14.05 million isn't the lowest, competitor claims PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 4, 2019) — A controversy over who is the lowest bidder for a jail construction project expected to run about $14 million spilled into public view at Monday’s county commission meeting when Ladon Curran, a representative of Bales Construction, objected to a proposal to award a $14.05 million jail construction bid to Reese Construction. Curran said a bid calculation error shows that Reese was not the lowest bidder and a multiprime bid came in several hundred thousand dollars lower. “At this point I'm wondering if you've awarded that contract to Kevin Reese,” Curran said. “It's an unfortunate mistake, it seems." Curran presented documents stating that a multi-bid option was $13,770,397, lower than the Reese bid of $14,053,000, by a total of $282,603. According to Curran's documents, a bid review by the Joseph Kent bid estimation company erroneously calculated the multi-bid option at $14,548,000. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
Waynesville, Richland keep schools open, most others close PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 4, 2019) — While the Dixon R-I School District, Laquey R-V School District, and Plato R-V School District all cancelled classes Sunday evening for Monday March 4, and the Crocker R-II School District cancelled classes at 4:56 a.m. Monday, the Waynesville R-VI School District announced Sunday that district officials plan to keep schools open today despite what is expected to be very cold weather. Richland R-IV Schools also remained open. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
(Photo by Joseph Gerber) Hazmat teams responded to a rollover wreck near Hazelgreen on Thursday.
Icy roads wreck many vehicles Thursday, but only two hurt PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 2, 2019) — Snow-slicked roadways on Thursday led to numerous crashes including a hazardous material incident on I-44 near Hazelgreen, but only two of the county’s many wrecks resulted in injuries, including Steven T. Gutierrez, 53, of Waynesville, and Brianna M. Kennedy, 19 of St. Robert, in unrelated wrecks. Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ... Darrell Todd Maurina
