Holt County committee to review road department effeciency

Three Holt County supervisors agreed, when the leaders met at the courthouse in O’Neill last Thursday, to serve on a committee to look for ways to improve efficiency within the road department.

Road superintendent Gary Connot described several recent issues he attributed to lack of training, oversight and accountability.

“I personally think we have got to get more oversight, more practical training and more instructions to our motorgrader operators,” he said. “We had a guy this last summer – we had the best set of roads in the county – in a period of about six, eight, 10 months, that best set...