Letters for 03-11-2010
Letter to the Editor, Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dear Editor:
I am filled with questions and wonderment. I have given up on street improvements, but yet the street tax continues, and for how much longer? How many dollars of the street tax have filled the coffers of the town of Richmond? I don’t believe we can use the term, “our town,” although the city council is doing a difficult job and doing well to attempt to correct the many errors created in the past years. Driving over most of the street brings back memories of the Army with the cross country tours.
Oh yes, I have another thought about roads. South Highway 13 has a speed zone from 70 to 45 mph. From the north, the zone is 60 to 45 mph without an additional speed zone to help slow drivers. I believe there is sufficient space to insert a 50 mph sign. Entry from the east and west appear to have their speed zones in place.
On the topic of infrastructure, another sewer bond is on the ballot to hopefully obtain what the other two bonds failed to accomplish. I don’t know anyone who can articulate what the previous sewer bonds did accomplish, other than pay a fine levied on Richmond. But if I remember correctly, the justification for this sewer bond is almost the same as the previous bonds. Oh yes, there was the construction of a lift station for Sunrise School.
As for the city’s water lines, they are in a confused mess and it appears there is no thought given to corrective actions needed. Is it possible that all of our ills will correct themselves?
As budget talks looms over area school districts, it seems to this person that all these great plans for Richmond and the R-XVI School District are taking place without regard of the future years, which from all indications will be very lean. What happens when the funding dries up? I would think a wise person would look at the furure and plan accordingly.
Bill Franklin
Richmond
