Editor:
In response to the letters to the editor on Jan. 4, in regards to “Why isn’t Holley Road repaved?”
Ms. Westbrook, I read your article and can only give you the answers others have asked.
My father went to the city for help on a large pothole on Grape Court. He got the usual run-around and was told that Mike Adams in Public Works can help him.
Well, months later, and the hole is bigger and still not repaired.
I would suggest you come to the City Council meetings and raise heck there. No promises they will listen either.
Last night during the City Council meeting where I sit among two other citizens who come to the meetings (and that is almost every meeting — Pretty sad, huh?) the City Council OKed Public Works to use some of the so-called “General Fund” money that was supposed to go toward new equipment, $54,559 plus a 10-percent contingency, to go toward aerial shots of the city. The last one done was in 2000.
So you see, Ms. Westbrook, perhaps if the city would use our tax dollars wiser, we wouldn’t have to worry about ruts. I advise you to come to the next City Council meeting and see firsthand where good money could be spent, but they choose not to.
Kim Lawrence
Sweet Home
Editor’s note: Highway 228 improvements were delayed until 2006 by a lack of funding, according to Public Works Director Mike Adams. The Oregon Department of Transportation project was delayed again last year when ODOT changed engineers working on preliminary designs. Adams met with ODOT last Friday in follow-up to conversations in December and learned the ODOT is targeting February for completion of approved design plans and late 2006 to go out for bids.