Chadron City Council has renewed the city’s maintenance agreement with the Nebraska Department of Roads for the portions of Highways 20 and 385 within the city limits.

The state pays the city to handle maintenance work such as sealing cracks and filling potholes, while the city pays the state for plowing Highway 385 from 10th Street to the Ridgeview Golf Course…the south city limits.

The totals are based on lane milage, with the maintenance work bringing Chadron $1,575 per lane-mile and the city paying out just $375 per mile-lane.

With the state paying on 5.4-miles and the city paying a much lower fee on just 2.7-miles, Chadron will make $7,461 on the contract this year. That’s $441 less than last year, reflecting a slight shrinking of the milage listed by the state.