County weighs $285,301 in Wilson pathway change order cuts

The procedural move inside the Wilson pathway packet is Change Order #1, where Public Works staff and the consultant team say bid review produced $285,301 in proposed deductions for commissioners to approve. In the Wilson transportation packet, the cuts are not just arithmetic: they include a retaining-wall quantity correction, removal of an 8-inch pit run subbase that staff says the geotechnical report did not require, and deletion of irrigation sleeving with related trenching and backfill.

That last deduction is the one to watch because it reverses a prior board direction. Staff wrote that commissioners had directed inclusion of conduit for possible future irrigation, after public comments supporting future street trees, but now recommend removing it for fiscal prudence, WYDOT right-of-way limits on landscaping, and concerns that landscaping could attract wildlife into the roadway corridor.