Click on the post for the story today in the Janesville Gazette: The stimulus grant enables the project to happen " a few years earlier" than planned.
Check out the 5 year capital budget for Evansville and see if you can find the West Main road work in it:
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
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Does it matter if it's in the 5 year plan or not? Fact is it will need done in the near future.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all the DOT came the city with this. The stimulus states the owners of the property are not to be assessed for this project.I love the fact you all spout off before looking at the facts of the stimulus.
All of this stimulus money is going to be spent one way or another we might as well get our share because believe me Brooklyn, Oregon Brodhead etc. will take it if we don't.
This comment refers to the comments on the Gazette site.
ReplyDeleteBut other roads need to be done in town as well. Why this one? Funny who it benefits. West Main is not a state road, so the D.O.T. can not tell us it has to be this one.
ReplyDeleteThe outrage on the Gazette site about the fact that there will be no special assessments for curb and gutter on W. Main St. reminds me of a Council vote on a special assessment issue back when I was city administrator and excecutive director of the redevelopment authority. When Main Street in the downtown was reconstructed, I was of the opinion that tax increment should have been used to pay for the sidewalks and curb and gutter so the business property owners would not have to pay special assessments for them. It soon became clear that some members of the Common Council did not share my opinion, so I asked the Council to vote on the issue. The Council deadlocked, and then Mayor Janis Ringhand cast the deciding vote to make the downtown business property owners pay the special assessments. I think former Mayor Ringhand was concerned that if the downtown business property owners were not required to pay special assessments for sidewalk and curb and gutter, later street reconstruction projects with special assessments on residential properties would cause a popular uprising.
ReplyDeleteBill Connors
Former Evansville City Administrator