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Council forms six-member review team to restart county 'rocking' program for unpaved roads
Summary
Councilman Dennis Townsend proposed restarting a road 'rocking' program and recommended a six-person review team (three council members, three CTC members) to evaluate requests and perform an annual ride to prioritize roads for rocking or resurfacing.
Councilman Dennis Townsend presented an update from the County Transportation Committee on May 28 and proposed reviving the county’s 'rocking' program for unpaved county roads.
Townsend told council members the committee met multiple times with a consultant or stakeholder (referred to in the minutes as Mr. Gleason) and recommended forming a six-person review team: three county-council members (Townsend, Stevie Grice as chairman of county council, and Robbie Coward as chair of the Roads and Bridges Committee) and three representatives from the County Transportation Committee (CTC). The team would evaluate requests the council receives and, each fall, conduct a ride to inspect paved roads flagged for resurfacing — applying the same inspection-and-prioritization process to requests for rocking.
Townsend said the group would develop a mechanism for processing requests within the next several months and that decisions about which roads receive work would be made after field inspection and committee prioritization. The minutes record this as a presentation and planning direction; there was not a recorded formal vote to create the committee during the meeting.
The proposed approach emphasizes joint review by elected officials and transportation committee members and an annual, on-the-ground inspection to prioritize limited road-improvement resources.
