Oakham Select Board Opens Single Highway Fuel Bid at Special July Session
Oakham Select Board opens single highway fuel bid at special July session. The board convened a special meeting July 8 at 10 a.m. solely to open sealed material bids for the highway department's fuel supply.
Select Board · Meeting of July 8, 2026
Oakham Select Board opens single highway fuel bid at special July session. The board convened a special meeting July 8 at 10 a.m. solely to open sealed material bids for the highway department's fuel supply. One submission, from R.J.
MacDonald of Barrie, Massachusetts, was read into the record: No. 2 oil and diesel fuel at $3.125 per unit and Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel at $3.443 per unit, both priced against a posting index of $7.726 with increments of positive $0.489 and positive $0.66 respectively, yielding total cost figures in the range of $2.1 million to $3.2 million excluding taxes. No competing bid was identified in the audible record, and no award vote was taken.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of July 8, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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