Nebraska company plans office in Wellsville
By The Herald Staff
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A business will get a permanent home near Wellsville after the Franklin County Commission approved a rezoning request Wednesday.
CenCon, Scottsbluff, Neb., has a temporary office in Wellsville but will build an office, storage area and shop on a lot on the southwest corner of the I-35 and K-33 junction south of Wellsville.
Commissioners rezoned the nine-acre lot from C-2, highway commercial, to I-1, light industrial.
CenCon, a contractor that installs telephone lines for Embarq, will use the site as an office and to store and maintain trucks, heavy equipment and utility supplies, Larry Walrod, county planner, said.
The Franklin County Planning Commission endorsed the proposal on a split vote, he said. Neighbors didn’t object to the proposal, he said.
The tract originally had been planned to be a new and used truck lot but was never developed, he said.
In other matters, the commissioners:
• Voted 4-1 to buy a new Diebold safe for the treasurer’s office.
The old safe’s time-lock mechanism had become so cranky that Treasurer Debbie Hough was worried her employees would put cash in the safe and then wouldn’t be able to reopen it the next day, Lisa Johnson, interim county administrator, said.
The going rate for legal safe-cracking is $5,000, she added.
Hough negotiated a price of a little more than $8,000 for a new safe, and stand and a new time-lock system.
However, Commissioner Don Hay, who cast the dissenting vote, said Hough should have sought bids.
• Accepted the low bid of $1.1 million by Vance Brothers, Kansas City, Mo., for this year’s “chip and seal” program.
The company will apply a new layer of rock chips and heavy road oil on more than 81 miles of chip-and-seal roads in eastern Franklin County and an area around Centropolis.
There were three bidders and all of the bids came in below the engineer’s estimate, Jim Haag, county public works director, said.
• Accepted the low bid of slightly more than $92,500 from Bank of the West for financing a Catepillar road grader.
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