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Burleson council backs major road rebuild option as budget talks include modest tax-rate increase
Summary
Council signaled support for a full rebuild of Wicker Hill Road and Greenridge Drive — a $6.9 million option — while approving a $2.74 million mid-year budget amendment and asking whether to fund longer-term projects via a small tax-rate increase (finance staff estimated the full-build option would add roughly 0.377¢ to the debt-service component).
Burleson city officials on July 21 reviewed funding choices for badly deteriorated Wicker Hill Road and Greenridge Drive and approved a mid‑year budget amendment while discussing whether to raise the tax rate to pay for long‑term fixes.
Randy Morrison, the city’s director of capital engineering, told council the corridor’s pavement condition index is 14.6 — “essentially a failed roadway at this point” — and described three options: do nothing, a $1.4 million interim 5–10 year fix that would hold until a later rebuild, or a full build‑out estimated at $6.9 million that would include full design,…
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