Lake Elsinore City Council set to consider road way expenditures

The Lake Elsinore City Council is planning to divert thousand of
your Tax dollars to yet another boondoggle instead of maintaining and
completing unsafe roads. It’s intent on hiring an architect that will be given tax
dollars for designing improvements on the Collier Avenue center divider instead
of restoring unsafe roadways.  If
approved, a $48,080 contract will go to Lee & Stires Inc. to pave Hunco
Way, which is deteriorating, according to a staff report. With this, the council intends to slip in another $72,238 contract with Berger-ABAM Flores Lund Consultants for a landscaping design project in the median of Collier Avenue between Nichols Road and Riverside Drive. The Council in my opinion needs to set Safety priorities first such as:

1)  Grand Ave to Lake Shore has not been paved in the last 30 years. Only the pot hole patrol keeps this roadway from completely collapsing.

2)  Lake Street (the real northern gateway entrance to our city) was supposed to widened and paved before the homes were built in Alberhill yet thousands of cars travel on this unsafe road and California Oaks never planted or any aesthetics
completed.

3) Machado: keeps getting dug up and patched instead of repaved

4) Corydon, Chaney and many other streest to the to the south are unsafe and deteriorating and the list goes on.

Could this be a payback for having a campaign headquarters at the Outlet Center? Regardless, the Citizensof the city of Lake Elsinore deserve better.

Lake Elsinore City Council is set to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the
Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District Boardroom, 31315 Chaney St.