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~19990176 in the court house. Lancaster made a motion and Stelk seconded to authorize the building and grounds department to hire an engineer. Discussion was held on the amount that would have to be paid for an engineer and if it should be limited. Lancaster tabled her motion and Stelk tabled her second to have the building and grounds committee obtain some bids on the cost of an engineer and come back with a rcommendation. 10:00 A.M. BID OPENING FOR CARPET AND TILE PROJECT: Only one bid was received for the carpet for the Administration Building, Road Department and the Clerk of the District Court office. Carpet Plus, Grand Island submitted a total bid of $27,264.00. Stelk made a motion and Lancaster seconded to refer the bid to the building and grounds committee and come back with a recommendation on May 25. Arnold, Hartman, Jeffries, Lancaster, Landis, Logan and Stelk all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. 10:15 A.M. RON BISHOP REGARDING WOOD RIVER DIVERSION PROJECT: Ron Bishop provided the board members with a map of the area that will be affected by the diversion project. He stated that the project has been approved in Washington and will move forward. The map showed the area that will be serviced by the project and the arrea will be removed from the flood plain so that flood insurance will not be required. The current cost estimate is $16,632,000.00 with the federal cost at $9,406,400,000.00 and the non federal costs would be $7,225,600.00. A proposal has been presented to the Army Corps of Engineers that the construction of the bridges would be pulled from the total project and if so Central Platte NRD feels that they could build them for less which would result in a cost savings. Stelk made a motion and Lancaster seconded to sent a thank you letter to the representatives for their help on this project. Arnold, Jeffries, Lancaster, Lanids, Logan and Stelk all voted yes and none voted no and Hartman abstained. Motion carried. 10:30 A.M. WILL BENNETT UPDATE ON COMPUTERS: Will Bennett, computer consultant and Dave Arnold, computer technician updated the board on the computer purchases that will be made. The Windows '98 training classes and 22 employees have attended and 31 employees have signed up to attend. The update project on the backbone of the network is about 4 1/2 months behind but they are progressing on it. By purchasing all of the PC hardware at one time they will be albs to save $13,000.00. The funds for these purchases are in the miscellaneous general fund and the equipment and improvement reserve fund. They hope to have the computer's installed and tested by September. Bennett and Arnold have