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Rural residents tell Cochise County supervisors they pay taxes but lack road maintenance; board schedules work sessions
Summary
Residents told the Cochise County Board of Supervisors that ungraded rural roads leave them isolated and unsafe. Supervisors said work sessions and public meetings will be scheduled to consider adding and deleting roads from the county maintenance schedule.
Several Cochise County residents told the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 16 that they pay county taxes yet receive little or no road maintenance, and urged the county to grade and repair remote roads more frequently.
Resident Alfred Kern said he has been raising the issue for three years: "We all pay our taxes, but we have no services," and asked the county to grade the gravel roads north of Cipriano and San Mateo. George Adams, who said he recently had a heart attack, described a 2.5-mile stretch near Calleville as "horrible" and said some…
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