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Page 5 of 6 In Mid August I asked Mr. Sutherland about the Farrington to "H" Street connecting road and he did his best to convince me it was just a little connection road that was being pushed by the school system for a bus route and to save my energy for fighting the big road going to Hwy 225. I checked with the L.P.I.S.D. Superintendent and the Transportation Director and they had no idea the road was being built. I then got with other neighbors and found out that the little connection road was actually Phase 1 of what the City's Planning Director called a "Highway" and he was still planning on building it... and that was just 35 days ago. Mr. Sutherland has recently met with his "Kitchen Council" of 6 Lomax Taxpayers and after 3 hours of trying to persuade them to his point of view, all 6 were still strongly against the Phase 1 road. In one month our group has grown to 550+ taxpayers with 17 Coordinators who have signed a Petition asking the City to abandon the Phase 1 road and the Highway.. and there were just 997 voters in the last City General Election. Now Mr. Sutherland is going out to do a sales job to persuade people to allow the Phase 1 instead of listening to 550+ taxpayers that signed a petition to stop the Phase 1 of the Highway. The question is obvious... How can Mr. Sutherland attempt to represent City Hall's position on this matter when he can't even represent the Taxpayers in his own district? City Manager Bob Herrera has tried to down play the seriousness of this Highway in a recent Bayshore Sun article by calling it a "rumor". As you can see from the above facts, it is not a rumor. He also stated that the Phase 1 road was planned "to expand residential traffic between the Lomax area and Spencer Hwy". Actually it will tie Fairmont Parkway into P Street in North Lomax which will open up our neighborhoods to rush hour through traffic moving away from the "Parking lot" of Sens Road & also the Underwood/Spencer intersection. He also states it will be 30- 45 days before further City consideration of the road. This Time limit will expire well before the 2-6 month review of the Comprehensive Plan where taxpayers can input their thoughts on this road. I don't understand Mr. Herrera's rush to build this Phase 1 road. With all the misinformation the City has put out on this Highway, is it any wonder that many taxpayers believe the City has lost all credibility on this issue. Many thanks from all the taxpayers involved, to all the taxpayers who have signed the petition, attended City Council meetings, spoke before Council, circulated thM- n and letters and have basically made our system of government work. I� Coordinators: Jim Adams (IT) 470-2378 Dorothy Coker " 471-2346 Earl Deleon (H) 471-2346 Danny Frierson (H) 470-9608 Louis Heintschel (H) 471-3247 Wayne Knox (W) 471-5751 Paul Neumann (H) 471-2671 Becky Sayers (H) 470-0113 Kay Scott (H) 470-6685 Bill Scott (IT) 470-6685 Sharon Tally (H) 471-1445 Doyle Tally (H) 471-1445 Pat Wright (I) 471-7840 Nancy Quested (H) 471-0709 Bill Scott 3 Coordinators wish to remain anonymous