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Residents and officials press Pocomoke City for sidewalks, stormwater fixes and Cypress Park shoreline work; volunteers to repair nature trail Oct. 10
Summary
Council heard repeated complaints about unfinished street and sidewalk repairs, flooding in White Oaks, eroding shoreline at Cypress Park and a planned volunteer repair day for the nature trail funded in part by Dr. Shoemaker; council and staff discussed short-term repairs and longer-term mitigation and grant strategies.
Multiple speakers at the meeting urged the mayor and council to accelerate road and sidewalk repairs, address chronic flooding in the White Oaks neighborhood, and fund shoreline restoration at Cypress Park.
The mayor said the FY budget passed July 1 and criticized the lack of visible progress on streets and sidewalks. The mayor and Finance Director–now city manager–designate Brandy Matthews confirmed some Public Works staff can perform masonry and sidewalk repairs and described a plan to set aside two days per week to complete roughly a half-dozen sidewalk sections per day; larger sections will require…
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