07-12-2015, 04:54 AM
Important things coming up at next Board mtg this Wednesday @ 6PM. Please attend and speak up about any concerns you have.
A motion is on the floor from the last membership mtg, therefore the board is not supposed to move forward on the chip seal. We need more transparency. If the board doesn't have a special membership mtg to inform us of all the details and costs, then they'll have to wait until Oct's membership mtg to p/u this item as old business.
Some of us keep hearing different numbers from the mgmt. The Fugitive Dust Committee #2 who is also pushing this hasn't provided us w/enough information. There's more information in the "non-binding" contract that FDC#2 obtained that members haven't heard like that our crew will be working w/this contractor. Meanwhile their usual maintenance duties will fall behind.
FDC #1 who did much more research on finding solutions for our dusty roads, came up with higher numbers on chip seal and that was a few years ago. Their research which involved over 20 people from all the HPP districts provided hard data of other solutions to address our dusty roads. It used to be up on HPP's website. Someone removed it.
At the finance committee mtg I heard something about only needing 2" of base coarse. I have no material on my road and others chimed in the same. I heard from reliable sources that we need 6-7" of base coarse to start. Which means material will have to be brought in on each road, some more some less. FDC #2's initial figures aren't jiving.
Also discussed at the Finance Committee mtg is possibly purchasing a water truck for approx $30,000. Instead of outsourcing the watering of our dusty roads is one reason. The other is for the chip seal work, as they'll be using LOTS of water.
This isn't about chip seal only, this is about wanting transparency w/thousands of our hard earned dollars. Most of us know nothing about this material. Some of us only want asphalt like other roads. No one has provided us w/enough information. There's only one contractor who does this work and many of us have heard there are issues. So there's that as well.
If there's nothing to hide, then why are some people getting upset w/us wanting transparency? Some are personally attacking those that want transparency. What's up w/that?
Please attend the meeting this Wed night @ 6 PM.
A motion is on the floor from the last membership mtg, therefore the board is not supposed to move forward on the chip seal. We need more transparency. If the board doesn't have a special membership mtg to inform us of all the details and costs, then they'll have to wait until Oct's membership mtg to p/u this item as old business.
Some of us keep hearing different numbers from the mgmt. The Fugitive Dust Committee #2 who is also pushing this hasn't provided us w/enough information. There's more information in the "non-binding" contract that FDC#2 obtained that members haven't heard like that our crew will be working w/this contractor. Meanwhile their usual maintenance duties will fall behind.
FDC #1 who did much more research on finding solutions for our dusty roads, came up with higher numbers on chip seal and that was a few years ago. Their research which involved over 20 people from all the HPP districts provided hard data of other solutions to address our dusty roads. It used to be up on HPP's website. Someone removed it.
At the finance committee mtg I heard something about only needing 2" of base coarse. I have no material on my road and others chimed in the same. I heard from reliable sources that we need 6-7" of base coarse to start. Which means material will have to be brought in on each road, some more some less. FDC #2's initial figures aren't jiving.
Also discussed at the Finance Committee mtg is possibly purchasing a water truck for approx $30,000. Instead of outsourcing the watering of our dusty roads is one reason. The other is for the chip seal work, as they'll be using LOTS of water.
This isn't about chip seal only, this is about wanting transparency w/thousands of our hard earned dollars. Most of us know nothing about this material. Some of us only want asphalt like other roads. No one has provided us w/enough information. There's only one contractor who does this work and many of us have heard there are issues. So there's that as well.
If there's nothing to hide, then why are some people getting upset w/us wanting transparency? Some are personally attacking those that want transparency. What's up w/that?
Please attend the meeting this Wed night @ 6 PM.