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The approved items included a variety of goods and services from road work to senior citizen meals and affected people across the county.

One, with Pro-Line Pavement Markings LLC, will provide for nearly 43 miles of county roads to have thermoplastic striping and raised pavement markers installed. The county received three bids for the project and Pro-Line was the low bidder at $486,770, County Administrator Michael Fouts said. The county will use $198,264 in special purpose local option sales tax revenue for the project.

The commissioners also renewed a contract with Three Rivers Regional Commission Area Agency on Aging to provide meals through the senior meals program. The lion’s share of the program is funded through federal funding at $165,643, Fouts told the commissioners. The state pays a portion and the county’s match is $14,424.

“Are we able to serve everybody with those funds?” Commission Chairman John Reidelbach asked.

Kelly Mickle, assistant administrator, said she didn’t believe there was a waiting list for the program, but she would check.

“It may be a capacity limitation more than a funding limitation,” Mickle said. “Because the building will only hold so many people.”

But she added that the county tried unsuccessfully to expand the program to other facilities in the past. The residents were not receptive to it, Mickle said.

Fouts noted that Meals on Wheels also serves many residents.

“Frankly, they supplement this program at a high level, and they do a great job,” Fouts said.

The commissioners approved renewing its contract with Marsh McLennan as insurance consultant. Marsh McLennan…