FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners will hold a public hearing Sept. 23 on a proposal to discontinue winter maintenance on a section of East Madrid Road in Madrid Township.
The hearing will be held at 9 a.m. in the commissioners’ meeting room at the County Courthouse on Main Street in Farmington.
The section is approximately 1,424 feet, county Clerk Julie Magoon said Wednesday.
Commissioner Clyde Barker of Strong and Jerry Haines, the county’s road agent for the unorganized territory, measured the area Tuesday.
The county is in the process of getting an easement on Conley Gould’s property, which will allow it to create a new turnaround for plow trucks, Magoon said.
The proposed discontinued section for winter maintenance will go from the new turnaround to the end of the county way.
The county had previously maintained the road until it ended, but discovered earlier this year that there was no record of making that portion of road a county way.
The county cannot discontinue winter maintenance to the end of a road that has been deemed private because it is not a county way, Commissioner Gary McGrane of Jay said Tuesday.
Magoon agreed.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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