A few items related to streets at Tuesday's Oklahoma City Council meeting prompted a wider discussion of the city's strategy for widening and repairing roads.
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BY MICHAEL KIMBALL mkimball@opubco.com
Published: September 28, 2011
The Oklahoma City Council on Tuesday opted to spend $8 million of surplus money on streets and debated about the city's overall strategy for addressing what residents say is their biggest concern.
The city projects a rainy-day fund of $54 million, which is almost 15 percent of the city's budget for this fiscal year. Councilmen Larry McAtee of Ward 3 and Pat Ryan of Ward 8 recently proposed $8 million of the rainy-day fund be used to resurface city streets.
Streets in sprawling Oklahoma City remain at the top of residents' list of complaints, despite a sizable portion of the budget devoted to street maintenance.
The expenditure would leave almost 12.5 percent of the budget for this fiscal year in reserve, well above the minimum of 8 percent that city policy requires. The council eventually approved the measure 7-1, with Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid voting against it. Mayor Mick Cornett absent from the meeting... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, September 28, 2011
by John Cox