Street repairs project update presented

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com

Assistant City Manager Hector Jalomo presented an updated report on the street improvement project to the San Benito City Commission on Tuesday.

Presented were the streets that have thus far been paved by city crews, Jalomo said. “In the past three weeks we have been working on streets from the Resaca, which is from Palo Blanco to Travis,” said Jalomo.

The project is the result of an agreement made in November of 2012 in which the city borrowed $3.1 million in the form of Certificates of Obligation – a loan that comes with an interest rate of 2.55 percent – to help pay for street repairs.

City officials plan to repay the loan over the next 20 years with funds collected from a 4 percent property valuation tax hike implemented in September.

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    • esoteric30 on June 9, 2013 at 1:09 pm
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    A 20 year loan? They’re going to need to repave Business 77 in another ten. This is bad city management, and Business 77 wasn’t nearly as in need of roadwork as the streets in neighborhoods and other thoroughfares. It is a really shameful waste of money, especially when you consider that this money is collected from property taxes, and people driving to their properties have to endure a mish-mash of messy, shoddy patchwork and sinkholes. The way that Business 77 cracks, I can only assume it was never constructed correctly in the first place, with a cement foundation. The pattern of cracks appears to be the cause of a rock/pebble foundation with a tar blacktop cover. Someone tried to take some shortcuts in it’s construction and taxpayers continually pay for it’s shoddy planning and construction.

      • Handy Manny on June 11, 2013 at 4:48 pm
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      Business 77 is maintained by TxDOT, not the city.

        • WeThePeople on June 12, 2013 at 7:21 pm
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        Duh.

        • I_M_Not_A_Crook on June 12, 2013 at 10:20 pm
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        Granted, TxDOT is responsible for maintaining Business 77

        However, this does not stop the Mayor or City Administration from taking credit whenever they can!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Lily S. on June 9, 2013 at 12:59 pm
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    Exactly Joevette! How much more can the commissioners and mayor do to the Trial. Have enough sense commissioners and city dept and fix streets that you all do not live on. There are MANY STREETS that NEED REPAIR in our city. I pay taxes and I want our city money spent WISELY and NOT ON PEOPLE GETTING RAISES AT ADMINISTRATION. Hard working city employees need a cost of living raise and not just pennies.
    And while you are at it, city manager and mayor, how about a current website with information. The Good Lord knows you all are paying enough people that someone can keep it current.
    Only in MY TOWN OF SAN BENITO!!

    • joevette on June 7, 2013 at 11:13 pm
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    this is bull because the streets that need repair Diaz, Juarez ,and Bravo have never seen a repair but a patch crew stop wasting money on that dumb trail and fix the streets that need it not the ones that commissioners and other city leaders live on. these streets have not been repaired in 30 years or longer I have lived in this area for over 40 years and we still have the same street. Wish you all would forget about the trail cause on the side these streets are on you never see crews cleaning picking up trash cleaning the resaca or even see police patrolling the area like the other side and what about a play area take a look at both sides and see what I mean. This wasting of money at the trail has got to stop and fix our streets and improve our parks for our children.

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