Item 6: Resolution Forming LID for Crest Drive

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consider whether or not the city can always retroactively restructure the funding if funds become available or the assessment process changes and reimburse citizens - they can add that into this project - that if it gets restructured w/in the next 5 years they'll reimburse folks or some such.... as a taxpayer I'm reasonably bothered, as any average person would be, why should we pay our share of taxes: we can't get up our roads we have to pay allignment costs to maintain car we incur additional costs to replace shocks on our cars before it would normally be necessary my child hears me swear often, if I end up hitting the 3- 4 inch deep potholes by accident, and each time I swear she charges me a dollar - now I can exercise more self control, and you can vote to alleviate the pothole problem already I pay property taxes and get no road maintenance done by the city on the road to my home because it is gravel - so I am paying for something many others automatically get, a pothole free paved driveable road in front of their house. safety- does the city really want to get sued? remember the cost of not taking care of issues on the police force & unwanted sexual attention on citizen. does the city want to accept the risk of suits due to bad driving to avoid pot holes because the city has not finished this 8 year project of death and kids getting hit by cars as they walk to school without one sidewalk of our 78yr old female neighbor walking up Friendly St with her groceries to keep in shape getting hit by a car or falling due to road conditions we, and you, should be able to drive the roads and look out for people, not for potholes that damage our car. consider - aren't potholes the equivalent of cell phones in the sense of a safety distraction financial - are you willing to waste taxpayer dollars. Probably well over $500K has been spent on this project, some to outside consultants at the beginning of the CSD project, some on city staff and engineer wages, and much of your time as well. fiduciary responsibility as a city councilor as a taxpayer, I would consider it a failure in fiduciary responsibility on the councilor's parts if they fail to set up the Improvement District (or whatever the next step is that you are voting on) that allows this road project to continue to completion) and the funds and effort that have been spent to date become sunk costs. inflammatory language/incomplete presentation/remonstrance motivations the remonsterance petition was presented with inflamatory language, language crafted to inspire and encourage signatures without presenting the entire picture, it was shoved down folks faces with advertising marketing like promotion 'do you really want to pay 20K' nothing was mentioned of the funds available to those who can't afford it, loans, waivers, etc - and you know that is available to ciitzens