Despite things grinding to a halt over the past 6-weeks, due to COVID-19, Manitowoc County Executive Bob Ziegelbauer is “optimistic” about the rest of 2020.
He explains that construction workers are viewed as essential under Governor Tony Evers Safer-at-Home order. Ziegelbauer says the bridge construction project on County Trunk ‘S’ is coming to a close, “That will be opened in the next 10 days or so. That’s a big project, they started at the first of the year and it’s almost completely done. We have 14 miles of road resurfacing every year and until the raid started we were starting on County Trunk B. I think they’ll get after that on Monday.”
Even though it isn’t a county project, Ziegelbauer said the second phase of the Waldo Boulevard reconstruction, a city/state combo effort, is moving along quite nicely.
He also mentioned that there’s a big project taking place at Maribel Caves, “They’re building a pavilion, a $400,000 pavilion. That will start this week and all funded by grants from the DNR and the utilities company.”
The county executive adds, Maribel Caves is “an important park and that leads to tourism in Manitowoc County.”
