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Residents urge repairs for potholes and demand enforcement on trash dumping; call for no-burn limits after children fell ill
Summary
At a Live Oak council meeting, residents raised long-standing pothole and trash-dumping concerns and urged enforcement; one speaker asked the council to consider banning open burning in city limits after smoke reportedly sickened children.
Residents used the public-comment period at a Live Oak City Council meeting to press elected officials for action on potholes, trash dumping and smoke from open burning that they say has harmed nearby children.
Linda Williams, who identified her address as 514 Southwest Lincoln Avenue, said she left the city as a councilman with about $3,100,000 set aside for street work on 6th Street, 7th Street and Lincoln and said those streets “will be paved” once inspections and pipe work are finished. She told the council contractors are bringing construction debris into District 2 and asked city code enforcement to step up patrols: “This should be illegal,” Williams said.
Williams also pressed the council on public-health concerns tied to open burning, saying children behind a local church became sick after nearby burning. “So I'm asking you to please consider no burn ban burning in the city limits a libel because of health reason,” she said, urging the council to prohibit open burns inside city limits to protect public health.
Another resident raised problems with 5th Street and asked whether the city could provide material or manpower to fill potholes, saying current conditions were damaging tires and vehicles.
City staff and council members responded by describing planned capital work. A councilor said the city manager confirmed sewer and pipe projects are in progress for the affected streets and that the paving work is “in the making.” Council members also discussed scheduling budget workshops and a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) review that will help set priorities and funds for public-works projects.
The council did not take a formal vote during public comment but asked staff to consider enforcement steps and to include street and code-enforcement priorities in upcoming workshops. The council scheduled further discussion of budgets and grants in the workshop cycle the members agreed to hold in July.
