3rd Quarter WGNA Meeting Summary 7/25/14 K.Agee
Our
3rd quarter WGNA meeting (7/24/14 at the Christian Church, Lawler @ Jupiter)
featured an update from our District 6 City Councilwoman Lori Dodson. Following are some highlights:
Ř The City Council was recently briefed
about the declining condition of our streets, along with recommendations for
correcting the problem. At issue is the
loss of about $750,000 from the General Funds during the recession, declining
CDBG (Community Development Block Grant, from Federal HUD program) funds, and
the ever-increasing traffic in the City.
CW Dodson explained how the Streets Dept
monitors the quality of our streets thru a “Pavement Control Index” or PCI and
needs to keep that level above a certain number to avoid much more costly
repairs if the street were to actually fail.
The plan is to restore cash flow from the General Funds (enough to
eventually recover what was missing during the recession), and to enact a
2-cent property tax increase (amounts to about $66/yr
for a $100,000 house, reduced for seniors) for a 5-year period.
Ř The old Dairy Queen restaurant on
Plano Rd just south of Buckingham has finally been sold, and is set to become a
Mexican restaurant (opening date not currently known).
Ř The upgrade to the rolling blue
recycle containers (and expanded ranged of accepted items) is progressing, but
is currently only in stage 3 of the 5 stages.
The team has a system where each district gets certain streets upgraded,
so it’s just a matter of time…
There still seems to be issues in the
extreme southwest part of our district (Yale, north of Forest Lane), where
trucks are still being parked in the streets illegally, and there were
complaints about dubious street repairs in that same general area (on Yale)
where asphalt patches seem insufficient.
We decided to hold the next quarterly
WGNA meeting at the Walnut Creek Branch Library’s meeting room. This is our neighborhood library, located at
3319 Edgewood Dr. This is just east of
Jupiter – click here to see a map. The meeting will be at the usual time, the 4th
Thursday of October (23rd), starting at 7 p.m.