Nick Kidd - Maybe if the crooks in the city building would be honest with the citizens, they could use the money that can only be used LEGALLY for street repair. The Auto & Gas Fund, money returned from the state from gas taxes and license plate fees, can only LEGALLY be used for streets. Last year this fund was 3.28 million dollars. Also, there is 1 mil of our property taxes that can only be used LEGALLY for street repair! Last year this fund was nearly $700.000.00. These two funds were nearly 4 million dollars that legally should have been spent on street repair. That is not counting 50% of our income tax that was to be used for our streets, that was redirected in 1987. Until the citizens of Middletown require honesty and integrity in our public officials, our city administration will waste OUR tax dollars on any thing other than helping Middletown.

Nick
    The citizens need to ask several question about City Hall’s sudden interest in repairing our streets.
    Where did this money come from? While working on the cemetery I was told that all the HUD money was dedicated therefore it could only be used to help the poor with housing issues. However with one vote of City Council they transferred this money for other uses. So now we just purchased a $400,000 Fire Truck with HUD funds. If we had millions of dollars of HUD funding available why haven’t these funds been made available before for paving in the areas of greatest need?
    At the last council meeting Preston Combs gave us the answer. City Hall has come to some sort of an agreement with the EPA about our combined sewer problem to the tune of 150 million dollars over the next 10 years. Where will City Hall come up with all this money?
Which area of the city will get these improvements first? Many years ago they increased our water & sewer bills to cover these improvements. Where are all the funds that they have collected over the years?