(Okoboji)– There’s good news for a major road project in Okoboji. The city council Tuesday evening awarded a bid on the Stakeout Road project following a public hearing. Two bids were received. City Administrator Michael Meyers tells KUOO news the low bid of $558,701 the council approved came in well below the engineer’s estimate…
“It’s $100,000 under the engineer’s estimate, under what the city of Okoboji had budgeted for fiscal year ’25. So that’s always good news and we’re very excited to get going on that just after Labor Day with Blacktop Services out of Humboldt, Iowa.”
Meyers says the project will get underway shortly after Labor Day…
“So expect about a month of work on Stakeout from Highway 71 all the way up to city limits near Chalstrom Beach Road there. There will be a full re-construction of the road from about our jurisdiction to about where that curve starts and then we’ll do an overlay from that point forward. Some of the benefits of this, not only renewing our infrastructure there with the street, but also we’ll take some of that brush and trees down around that curve and widen that street out a little bit so there’s a wider curb line in that area to promote visibility and kind of slow people down and get people off the street.”
A pedestrian was seriously injured at the trail crossing on Stakeout Road just east of McDonalds several years ago.
