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<br />Green, Shannon <br /> <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Alexander, Cynthia <br />Tuesday, November 22, 2005 5:43 PM <br />Green, Shannon <br />FW: Baytown: paper says city should immediately revise shortsighted system of allocating <br />money from the street maintenance sales tax. <br /> <br />For meeting with Michael and ray mayo <br /> <br />-Original Message- <br />From: Lewis F. McLain, Jr. [mailto:news@Citybase.net] <br />Sent: Friday, November 18,20058:14 AM <br />To: Alexander, Cynthia <br />Subject: Bay town: paper says city should immediately revise shortsighted system of <br />allocating money from the street maintenance sales tax. <br /> <br />Prioritize roadwork <br /> <br />By David Bloom <br />Bay town Sun <br />Published November 18, 2005 <br /> <br />Bay town City Council should immediately revise the shortsighted system of allocating <br />money from the street maintenance sales tax. <br /> <br />The city should repair the worst roads first, giving special consideration to those that <br />are heavily traveled. <br /> <br />Currently, street tax dollars - about $1.5 million a year - are divided evenly among <br />the six council districts. However, street work requirements for each district present <br />different levels of need, size and scope and miles of streets. While. an even split among <br />districts might be politically cidvantageous, that system ignores the city's most urgent <br />street repairs. <br /> <br />Of course, this debate also pits newer neighborhoods versus older ones, richer parts of <br />town versus much less affluent. It should not be that way. We allUve in Bay town and <br />drive the streets. <br /> <br />The city's street-repair priorities' seem unfocused with seldom-traveled streets being <br />repaved while heavily traveled routes are allowed to deteriorate until they become <br />hazardous. Like arteries and veins, if the streets aren't in good shape, the whole body of <br />the city suffers. <br /> <br />Here's a suggestion: evaluate the streets for general condition, whether the condition is <br />worsening rapidly, the present and anticipated traffic loads, whether the street and <br />area is due for water/sewer line projects and, lastly, the location - trying to spread <br /> <br />1 <br />