They are supposed to be redoing yankee road here sometime. I had to put in a new apron, some curbs, and new sidewalk.

 

Has anyone ever asked what we pay in "consultant fees" and who those payees are? I bet we could pave more than a mile, maybe three!

 

$200,000/yeaar isn't even enough to do crack-sealing on some of our better streets to prevent them from deteriorating, and therefore extend their serviceable lives.  Instead, our city leaders eschew this sort of sensible inexspensive maintenance and let our streets crumble while they squander our tax money on nonsense.

 

The repair of failed/failing streets IS a permitted use of CBDG funds, regardless of what you may have been led to believe.  Everyone at City Hall knows (or SHOULD know) it.  It has beens documented here, several times, and even has been admitted at meetings in city hall, although that may not have been reported.

 

There may be some restrictions on where the streets to be repaired can be located, but I am on record, several times, as acknowledging that and stating that some of our poorest neighborhoods could end up with the best streets and that I support that, especially instead of "beautification" on a street that one cannot even drive down because of its poor repair.

 

My only reservation now would be to put streets of city power brokers, their relatives and handlers LAST on the schedule, right behind Historic Districts (including downtown). These isolationist, primitive condition lovers should be given their wish.