Ouray County Road and Bridge staff will finish improvements to County Road 1 next week, while a number of other projects have been tabled until later this fiscal year due to staff allocation decisions and cost overruns on equipment repairs.

The department has already spent $196,000 on repairs this year, over $20,000 more than the $175,000 budgeted for 2022, said Superintendent Ty Barger. While it’s impossible to predict how much will be needed for the second half of the year since most repairs ...