Just when I thought I’d seen it all …
According to the Kingman Miner, Hendrix states that the County CAN improve our awful dirt roads, but we don’t have the funds.
https://kdminer.com/news/2017/oct/13/water-critical-issue-kingman/
• A quarter-cent increase in the sales tax is an “extremely powerful tool,” generating about $6 million a year, the county administrator mentioned. It was used to build the county administration office, the county jail and the sheriff’s office. And it would go a long way toward maintaining more than 2,000 miles of county roads, of which about 1,200 miles are unpaved. …
That’s contrary to Supervisor Jean Bishop’s statement right here last year:
FROM SUPERVISOR JEAN BISHOP:
The July floods constituted a historic storm event. The rain measured at our weather station near Diamond Bar Road and Pierce Ferry Road was the highest ever recorded since the station was installed and was actually greater than a 100 year storm (a 100-year storm is a storm that has a one percent chance of occurrence in any given year).
The storms took a terrible toll on the roads. Unfortunately, most of the roads in Lake Mead City are not maintained by the County. And, for the County to accept them for maintenance, they would need to first be brought up to County Standards by those wishing the roads to be maintained. (Not by the County per ARS 28-6705)
28-6705. Public road and street maintenance ….
Who is lying?
I never believed that Mohave County was LEGALLY prevented from providing emergency aide to its rural residents and to clear the roads so that emergency vehicles could transport patients.
I emailed this link to Supervisor Bishop for clarification.
Here is the response from Supervisor Bishop’s secretary:
And my response:
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I would so support the efforts to recall Bishop, but we have nobody to replace her with.
And for good measure, I requested Hendrix’s comments too:
Dear Mr. Hendrix,
I can’t figure out what’s going on with the roads. Please clarify your comments regarding the sales tax increase for ROADS:
https://highdesertdirt.com/blog/2017/10/13/county-administrator-hendrix-supports-sales-tax-increase-for-roads/#comment-3965
Thank you,
Christine Baker
NO MORE LIES!