The City Council on Wednesday discussed new ways to pay for local road projects as state funding becomes increasingly scarce. One idea was to build a reserve fund using only the extra tax revenue the city rapes, I mean reaps, each year from “new” home and business construction. This from the fertile mind of Anne Seward, the city's budget director. I found this info in a local paper. The description, “brainstorm,” was determined by the reporter, not city officials who rarely have one. What is so unique about using tax dollars to improve roads even if you narrow it down to “new taxes on new construction only?" I think the concept was to obtain and label a piggy bank. Other thoughts were on a Parr with that one with little chance of creating serious money. But Joe Barlow’s made sense, don’t improve the roads because slow traffic can mean less accidents. I don’t see any real money there unless Joe meant less law suits. Assuming citizens can contribute ideas, why not just send an email to Obama?
Friday, November 20, 2009
CITY BRAINSTORMS WAYS TO FUND ROADS
The City Council on Wednesday discussed new ways to pay for local road projects as state funding becomes increasingly scarce. One idea was to build a reserve fund using only the extra tax revenue the city rapes, I mean reaps, each year from “new” home and business construction. This from the fertile mind of Anne Seward, the city's budget director. I found this info in a local paper. The description, “brainstorm,” was determined by the reporter, not city officials who rarely have one. What is so unique about using tax dollars to improve roads even if you narrow it down to “new taxes on new construction only?" I think the concept was to obtain and label a piggy bank. Other thoughts were on a Parr with that one with little chance of creating serious money. But Joe Barlow’s made sense, don’t improve the roads because slow traffic can mean less accidents. I don’t see any real money there unless Joe meant less law suits. Assuming citizens can contribute ideas, why not just send an email to Obama?
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Pierce Homer, Secretary of Virginia Transportation said, in so many words, forget it Suffolk. Even if we had Sate money you would not be anywhere near the front of the line. The sun rises nor sets on your road problems.
And Isle of Wight feels dollars, some of them theirs, spent to improve 58 for maybe upcoming CenterPoint does little for them.
With the lot shown in the post, how will they be capable of any thing such as a "Brain-Storming" session on any subject? I do not mean to be unkind, but this group is so poorly lead, and without any original ideas, only to fail in almost all endevors it has attempted for years. This is not to say that we as a community have not managed survived their failures, surely we have. But that survival does not validate any real or effective capability on their part!
We can only hope that they will turn to the real brain-trust, and that is the citizens of Suffolk for an effective solution. With a budget of almost a half a billion dollars a year, we do have the resources to fix transportation and other needs, if we only have initative and recognition to do so. Such will not be found in City Hall, but can be seen daily in the honest and diligent efforts of the citizens of Suffolk.
Well said and true till it hurts. The people we elect to council and other that are appointed have the power to do, but not the insight to see how. I have take on a new task and that is to vote at each election and not ot vote for anyone that has held office in the past. I want new people and ideas. The MAyor has been there for eyars and has done so little most can't even discribe anything she has done. Par has done for himself and the rest hae done almost nothing by eat on our tab twice a month. What a group.
Let's put a tolls on the bridges spanning Bennetts Creek, the Nanasemond River and Chuckatuck Creek, another at the entrance to Centerpoint and yet another on Route 10. Charge for parking on the streets in alleyways, and private driveways. That way everyone will feel the pain. We can all suffer together in the spirit of income redistribution, from the citizen to the city. Mr. Parr has long advocated a gas tax hike. Think if it passed the first time how much would it be today? What a group of lost souls!
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