LISBON –A bid opening is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 10 for proposals for engineering services for the final leg of the Calcutta-Smith Ferry Road realignment.

The Columbiana County commissioners recently gave the county engineer’s office permission to advertise for requests for proposals for consultants to provide engineering services that include preparation of construction and right-of-way plans for the next section of Calcutta-Smith Ferry Road.

Columbiana County Chief Deputy Highway Engineer Bill Helscel said this is the seventh and final portion of the realignment project which has been done in pieces. He said this portion goes from Vernon Dell Tractor to the area of Bell School Road.

The engineer’s office has been working on a multi-phase project to rehabilitate County Road 430, which is more commonly known as Calcutta-Smith Ferry Road, with some of the previous work including eliminating a curvy section of the road just west of Vernon Dell Tractor, along with widening, curb and gutter improvements, and correcting horizontal and vertical alignments.

In other business, the commissioners heard a request from Diana Babe to change the name of a road in Franklin Township from Meister Road to Briceland Road. She said she’s the only house on the road and her grandmother was a Briceland.

“There were Bricelands on that road for 100 years,” she said.

Babe also said the name used to be Briceland.

Helscel commented that if it’s changed, more than just the name has to be changed, noting it affects mailing addresses and addresses on maps and addresses on utility bills. He referred to Ohio Revised Code section 5541.04, which outlines what has to be done in order to change the name of a road.

The commissioners tabled any action on the request to research it further.

The commissioners will meet again at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the downtown courthouse.

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