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Monday, March 31, 2008
62 out of 216
Roads, roads everywhere but no money to fix them.
At last week’s city council meeting, Public Works Director Ralph Reigelsperger said 62 miles of road out of the city’s 216 were in critical or poor condition. A total overhaul of city roads to restore them to excellent condition would cost about $66 million. Even getting them to good condition, would run the city about $62 million.
By way of comparison, Hamilton&’s general fund was budgeted at just under $49 million and even that is expected to be about $600,000 above what the city thinks it will make this year.
Without squabbling over how road conditions got to this point, where should road improvements rank on the city’s priority list and what’s the best solution?
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A Hamilton state of mind
After four months of anticipation, mostly on my part, I am here to kick off this blog about the most populous city in Butler County: Hamilton. (Though West Chester, a township, is creeping up in a big way. We’ll know after the 2010 census).
Too often, there is a gap between reporters and the people they report to and about. My higher ups and I envision this blog as a way of bridging that gap and making the news more relevant to local residents.
Jerry Seinfeld once said “It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” Though in these days of shorter stories and ever-shrinking newspapers, all the news doesn’t quite fit anymore.
So, this is your source for Hamilton news as it happens, sub-plots and quirky stories that don’t make it in to print and the latest on the city’s struggle for rebirth in the post-manufacturing age.
While this blog will generally have a lighter tone than you’ll see in print, it’s not an opinion column and not a place to libel our government officials. So, I must ask that in any posts on this blog that you refrain from name-calling and be informed. Also, watch your language.
And so it begins.
