CC 09-04-2024 Item No. 13 Award a contract for 2024 Concrete Reconstruction Project_Written Communicaitons (2)CC 9-04-2024
#13
Award a construction
contract for the 2024
Concrete
Reconstruction Project
Written Comments
From:Rhoda Fry
To:City Clerk; City Council
Cc:Chad Mosley
Subject:Public Comment 9/4/2024 Item #13 sidewalk work
Date:Wednesday, September 4, 2024 12:36:09 PM
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Dear City Council,
Thank you for doing the supplemental report although I would have preferred to see a more
fleshed out agenda so that residents and council members wouldn’t feel like they needed to
ask questions.
The amount of street tree maintenance has been cut back.
Is there anything that we can do to reduce the cost of sidewalk, curb and gutter work?
More importantly, can the City please work hard to not approve useless studies like the $172K
study to figure out how to partner with developers and put housing on our sports center, city
hall and community hall?
Our projected sales-tax revenue has dipped to between $9M and $11M per year.
This $1.5M expenditure represents about 15% of our projected sales tax revenue. That’s a lot
of money!
And some of the money from this project is funded by the General Fund.
I tried to review the link in the staff report but I was unable to do so because I do not have a
log-in or password to do so.
If you’re going to link to documents that require an id and password, please provide
instructions on how to access them.
In order to make a proper decision, the public and council need to know the necessity of this
project.
I suppose that the City Manager will say that what is before you is whether or not to accept the
contract.
I’d urge you to say no until we understand the details.
If something is hazardous, then yes, by all means, let’s fix it. I tried to get through to Public
Works on this but was unable to do so.
But if it isn’t critical, let’s please wait until we know our financial situation.
Thanks,
Rhoda
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