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Stimulus Funds for Summit Avenue?

halphalp Does using Federal stimulus funds to design a replacement plan for a road that doesn’t need yet need replacing  make sense? Public Works Director Mark Frye thinks so.

"We looked at this as an excellent use of the stimulus funds," Frye said. "If they do say no, at least we have it engineered and ready to go."

We don’t know what to make of that. We’re not going to pretend to know better. This is the new Ocono.com.

We know a lot of people who have hit the economic brick wall these days, and we’re pretty sure none of the people we know work for highly-paid engineering firms that draft up no-bid construction plans for municipal contracts. Maybe we’re totally wrong about that. We don’t know. We’re just a couple of guys who love this city.   What would we know about running it?

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2 Responses to “Stimulus Funds for Summit Avenue?”

  1. Robert Johns Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    The term “Hogs at the trough” comes up a lot lately. We will have to pay for all the “Free” federal money, and you can bet our local taxes are not going to go down…. Hey Maury, how about some more TIF districts! (Sorry, my sarcasm shows my discontent)

  2. Veristy Ortiamos Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    The line between news and entertainment has officially been blurred beyond all recognition. Its a soft tyranny. How badly accuracy will suffer remains to be seen.

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