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October 27, 2018 2018-10-27T16:00:00 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM 836 Reynolds StreetAugusta, GA30901 Admission: Free to the...
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) –If you have driven through or live in Richmond County, it’s pretty common to dodge potholes. It’s a problem that top city leaders say needs to be fixed soon.
“A lot of potholes do not speak well of your investment in your infrastructure,” Janice Allen Jackson said.
Jackson says resurfacing roads is almost a bigger issue than the vacant home problems in the county.
“We have not historically put as much into road resurfacing apparently as I think needs to be done,” Jackson said.
From 2012 through this year SPLOST six designated nearly 5 million dollars toward resurfacing county roads. About a million and a half was put forward from other funds, six and a half million total. So far, just over three and a half million of that has been spent.
In SPLOST 7, for the next five years the city only plans to put a million and a half dollars to make the roads smoother. Next year, only $250,000 dollars out of that will be spent.
“I drive around and sometimes I’m embarrassed with the potholes I run into,” Jackson said.
Jackson says her fear is that developers and people that are considering moving in will see and feel the roads and turn away.
Last year the county spent about $485,000 dollars, but now funds are going to drainage and stormwater projects that have been needed for years too.
“It could easily be three times that that we would spend every year or even more,” Jackson said.
The administrator says the city doesn’t have a clear capital planning process. It does have a resurfacing program, but Jackson says their challenge is to put enough money into it to create a real resurfacing program.
Jackson says she isn’t sure the amount of money to put towards getting all the roads resurfaced because they would have to do an assessment. Her goal is to have every road on three, five, and ten year resurfacing schedules.
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