VIDALIA, La. &045; The Concordia Parish Police Jury awarded a contract for road work to W.E. Blain and Sons Inc. at its meeting Monday.

The road work, which will be done with grant money received from the Louisiana Community Development Block Grant Program, will be in Levee Heights and on Bayou Drive.

Blain and Sons bid $399,657.10, or $2,157.10 more than the grant money the parish received. The jury voted to award the contract contingent upon approval by the LCDBG budget revision from the Division of Administration.

D&J Construction, Inc. bid $472,022.00 and Diamond B. Construction bid $499,022.08.

Juror Willie Dunbar asked why he was not notified of work that had been done on Moose Lodge Extension, a road in his district.

&uot;This did create problems for people in my district,&uot; Dunbar said. &uot;They called me and I didn’t know the answer. I gave people the wrong answer.&uot;

Concordia Parish Engineer Bryant Hammett, who oversaw the work, said the work was done with money from the State of Louisiana that had been a part of a $1.7 million grant received in 1997.

The grant was intended to help ease traffic flow problems near the Vidalia Industrial Park, Hammett said.

&uot;I should have talked to you since that is in your district,&uot; Hammett said. &uot;Š The short answer is we could send the money back or use it to repair a road built in 1997 that was already having problems.&uot;