We got a letter from our local city government yesterday.

It says they are now going to repave our road this fall.

I’ve been arguing for it since early April when I saw that we were not on the list of roads they considered for repaving this year. I went to a city council meeting to find out why we going to be repaved last year before they decided to cut our road for budget reasons and then opted not to pave it this year.

That did not go well. I wrote about here. Basically, our street is not a “through street” and thus “not a priority.” And because major roads around us have been paved recently, they had no reason to bring paving equipment back to our area just to work on our street.

I’ve been emailing and leaving messages for various public officials since. I had been told that “fingers crossed” our street could be covered by a state paving project and that was the only way we could be paved this year. Maybe that is what happened, but I wrote our services department three weeks ago when details for that project were released and our street was not part of that project.

I never got a response to that email. I specifically asked what it would take for our street to be a priority for the services department, like they said through streets are. That our street is still crumbling, that I have to direct Marceline around potholes on her bike so she can learn to ride, and that my youngest still picks up chunks of the road every time we walk despite them claiming to have cold patched all of the potholes earlier in the year.

Soooo… victory. I fought the man and won. I don’t want to take full credit but I feel vindicated for my effort.

Now if I can get the sound wall study redone I’ll feel really good.