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Resident urges stronger fines, public dashboard for utility pave cuts
Summary
A resident asked Scranton City Council to increase fines for poor utility pavement restorations, create a public performance dashboard for utilities and restore city pavement inspectors with authority to reject substandard work.
Mike Mancini urged the Scranton City Council to tighten enforcement of pavement restorations after repeated poor utility cuts left city streets damaged. "When the penalty for doing bad work is cheaper than doing good work, you get bad work every time," he told the council during the public‑comment period.
Mancini said PA Water and contractors routinely leave trench repairs that sink and crumble, imposing repair costs on the city and residents. He proposed three concrete…
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