I want to my local city council to find out why our street that has been scheduled to be repaid for the last 2 years but continually put off for budget concerns who wasn’t on the press release for repaving this year.

Despite being a principal having to talk in front of crowds and many occasions, I don’t enjoy public speaking. But I was annoyed enough to want to go and do this.

I did my research, it’s been 28 years since our street was last paved. I was in high school three states away when it happened. Since then it’s only been patches here or there.

I even drove down the streets that was listed as the ones being repaved this year. They’re all in better condition than our street.

I told them how our girls can pick up on chunks of our road and multiple places when we go for walks. And that no digging is required. You can just reach down and pick up the road. I told him it’s not fun to have to tell your kid to put the road down.

I also knew the excuses they were going to use. Which they did.

Our street is a cul-de-sac off a cul-de-sac. Not a through street. Through streets are the priorities I was told.

Last year budget concerns were the reason that we weren’t repaved. It was “bad.”

This year they said they are really hoping they might be able to attach repaving our street onto the budget for a large repaving. A few streets over. But no guarantees.

What it comes down to is that our cul-de-sac and the cul-de-sac it is attached aren’t worth it to repave unless they are doing some other street repaving in the vicinity. Which most nearby streets have been repaved recently.

So we’re screwed.

Yay.