EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city plans a new storage barn for road salt. On Oct. 18, the City Council approved Public Works Director Chad Birdsong’s request to build the facility. Budgeted at $371,031, the project will include building a 65-by-80-foot Clearspan structure, budgeted at $117,625; laying concrete pads for the floor, budgeted at $26,000; and laying a 65-by-50-foot concrete pad for loading vehicles, budgeted at $16,250. In an Oct. 12 letter to city leaders, Birdsong stated road and bridge funding will cover $245,000, with $125,000 from the Capital Improvements Program covering the rest. The city will recover the CIP funding, earmarked originally for the city’s digester, through American Rescue Plan Act funds, he wrote. The replenished $125,000 will then go toward the digester, Birdsong said. The city is contracting with T & B Trucking and Excavating LLC of Hurdland to build the foundation and wall. City workers will provide some labor ...