02-18-2018, 04:56 AM
IMHO the best way to improve the roads would be shared crew, equipment, and purchasing power among the subdivisions. Paid positions with real supervision and performance reviews. Break the maintenance down into half-streets, so all owners have a say in their neighborhood's particular ingress/egress.
The county does need to settle the mandatory/lien issue once and for all. Whether allowing private subdivisions to file liens directly (judicial is too slow and expensive).
If the county gets involved as the bill collector, the current dues would barely cover the room full of highly paid county employees in charge of collecting. So there would have to be limits on growth of road dues, and administrative overhead.
Ultimately we are already paying fuel tax, and the county should just amend their road standards to take over the roads and maintain them as-is, with gravel or whatever.
The county does need to settle the mandatory/lien issue once and for all. Whether allowing private subdivisions to file liens directly (judicial is too slow and expensive).
If the county gets involved as the bill collector, the current dues would barely cover the room full of highly paid county employees in charge of collecting. So there would have to be limits on growth of road dues, and administrative overhead.
Ultimately we are already paying fuel tax, and the county should just amend their road standards to take over the roads and maintain them as-is, with gravel or whatever.