City staff made a presentation at a city council meeting the other day that addressed our streets program.
Way back in 2012 council approved $136,000 to start to fix some of our streets. As it turns out the $136,000 did not include a few things:
Maybe we should feel lucky that the cost estimates included some asphalt. How could a reasonable person present the $136,000,000 without providing for these things?
What will the total come to? Take a look at the very next chart in the presentation:
The chart above still leaves off cost items that could be significant.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Always read the fine print or is this a switch and bait ?
Wonder if city council will take the bait if I send an email telling them for a small investment they can claim large sums of money. Just a small investment to get the money released from the bank.
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Why do all those extras have to be done for simple repaving of our sorry streets? I don’t recall them being done in years past – many years ago, when streets were kept up.
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We don’t have enough money to repair our streets, but we are going to spend $1 million to close a bunch of them during the Pope’s visit even though he is not even coming to El Paso. Next, we’ll be told this is all a blessing.
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The same thing happened with the QoL estimates for CC:
“Oh, you want these staffed and maintained; sorry, not in the cost.”
That was after the vote on the issue, one of TG’s first surprises from the Wilson legacy.
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and now they’re up to $13,0000,0000 for a 50-meter swimming pool !!!!!!!!!!!! but the thing that upset Niland was that a young girl thanked the city manager
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Did you mean 13 with 8 zeros or 13 with 6 zeros? I think 6. Just another example of how this city is perceived as a bottomless well at the expense of the taxpayers and probably sticking us with another long term bill that will outlast most of the sitting council and staff.
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sorry. typo. I meant 6 zeros as in 13 mil but give them enough time and they’ll add another zero or two
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I think the costs of Polk street and the bump installations and removals in front of Cathedral more than exceeded $136 grand. There’s also been a lot of other work since 2012 so even with good watchdogs with their microscopes we may be detecting just the tip of a huge iceberg of wasteful financial planning and spending on our streets, not to mention many other “pending projects.” . Being “progressive” in this city has gotten way out of hand.
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Is this blog now the El Paso Onion? Can this be real???
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