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Southwest Ranches mayor outlines options to accelerate road resurfacing; residents debate tax tradeoffs
Summary
Mayor said the town's original repaving program stretched from 25 to 30'35 years due to inflation and outlined options to triple annual paving funding or issue a bond to finish sooner; residents expressed willingness in some cases to pay modest increases and urged accountability.
Mayor (speaking in his role during the meeting) explained the town inherited roads in their existing state when it incorporated and implemented a multi-decade repaving plan. "We implemented a program ... that created about a 25 year plan for repaving all the roads in Southwest Ranches," he said, and added that inflation has lengthened the timetable.
The mayor described two funding options discussed by the council: increase annual paving allocations (an example was raising the town's paving budget from roughly $500,000 per year to about $1.5 million, which the mayor…
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