Holmes County receives 3 bids for summer repaving project
County Road 349 west of Millersburg will be one of several county roads that will receive upgrades as part of the Holmes County sales tax paving project this summer and fall.
With several bids for a repaving project now in place, Holmes County’s roads will continue to get the treatment that has helped maintain the county’s roadway system for close to the past decade.
On Monday, March 24 at the Old Jail meeting room in Millersburg, the Holmes County Commissioners conducted a bid opening for the 2025 0.25% sales tax County Road Paving Project, which will commence later this summer.
Corey Baker, assistant county engineer for the Holmes County Engineer’s Office, read the submitted bids for a countywide repaving project that was created in 2017 when the county went to the people of Holmes County to ask for support of the project.
The initial proposal was for a five-year term, which was well received and completed in 2022.
Two years ago the county went back on the ballot to ask for a second five-year tax levy, and the public overwhelmingly supported it.
Baker said the county has received plenty of positive feedback, and it’s been a worthwhile effort as the road paving project will continue to create quality roads for the county.
Three potential suitors submitted bids to earn the right to take on the Holmes County roadway resurfacing project.
Karvo Companies Inc. of Stow submitted a bid of $3,038,341.31, Shelly & Sands Inc. of Mansfield submitted a bid of $2,835,853.80 and Melway Paving of Millersburg submitted a bid of $2,572,378.
The engineer’s office bid estimate came in at $2,697,054.50.
“We’re glad to get three bids and get good competition from good companies, and we appreciate everyone submitting bids,” Holmes County engineer Chris Young said.
The roads being repaved during the project are estimated to be a little more than 20 miles of Holmes County roadway and will include portions or all of County Roads 27, 59, 114, 270, 280, 349, 391, 392, 393 and 625.
According to Baker, County Road 114 was repaved in 2018 and needs repaved again.
Baker said the paving project will begin July 1, noting that due to the contract being connected with an Ohio Public Works Commission grant, it is the earliest the county can begin the paving project.
He said the grant funding will combine with the sales tax income to pay for the paving project.
“We thank the people of Holmes County for approving this,” Commissioner Joe Miller said of the 0.25% sales tax. “It’s been a very, very good project, and we have the best county roads probably in the state of Ohio.”
Young said he will peruse each submitted bid and return his recommendation to the county commissioners to move forward on a suitor for the project.