SPEAKING OF STREETS

We should award a prize to the director and staff of the Department of Public Works. At least for over 16 years that I have lived in this fair City, the treatment of streets has been consistent.

They have succeeded utilizing hot rubber seal over cracks, black paint, chip seal and slurry seal to maintain and keep our streets rough, noisy, and ugly. They have not during this time strayed from this apparent goal of theirs.

But then, when you think it can't get any worse, these so- called engineers condone tearing up all of our streets-arterials, collectors, and residential- to install a sewerage system. In the first place, no proof has ever been displayed that would warrant sewers throughout the entire City. And, in the second place, they are replacing the streets with asphalt over dirt, which is in itself idiotic and a future maintenance nightmare. But, they don't have any worries. We will pay for it, not City staff.

Tearing up our streets is so far out, I am as amazed at this as I would be to see an alien spacecraft land on McCulloch Blvd. in front of McCulloch Realty. By the way, by alien I refer to from another planet, not from our southern border.

I urge our new City Council to not get swayed by pressure from the enemy. Let's make the necessary changes we voted for.