A street user fee that mayor Jason Knight said could have residents paying $1.50, commercial paying $3 and industrial $5 a month. <\/p>\n
ARANSAS PASS, Texas \u2014 Potholes across the city have Aransas Pass officials considering a monthly fee to help patch and pave problem streets without raising property taxes.<\/p>\n
Mayor Jason Knight said a proposed street user fee could have residents paying $1.50 a month, commercial properties $3 and industrial properties $5.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a large budget, so it\u2019s hard to come up with funds for regular street maintenance or any kind of major road repair,\u201d Knight said. \u201cThis could generate around $80,000 to $90,000 a year. It would be on a five-year plan, and at the end of year five, we would review it to see if the fee needed to be increased.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not everyone supported the proposal, including Vallee and Thomas Goodwin.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor road maintenance that we already pay for, we\u2019re opposed to it,\u201d Vallee said. \u201cI think there are other ways we could get these roads fixed. And while it\u2019s only $1.50, that means a lot to some people with everything in the economy going up \u2014 water bills, gas, groceries, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re already paying to have your streets taken care of,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI agree this needs to be done, but it needs to be done within what you already pay.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentiment was echoed by others during a City Council meeting earlier this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s paying attention to what Corpus Christi is doing right now because Corpus has the funding source,\u201d Knight said.<\/p>\n
Since then, the conversation has shifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the current water situation, that\u2019s what really snuck up on us,\u201d Knight said. \u201cIt felt like bad timing because no one knows what\u2019s going to happen with water rates. Nobody\u2019s been given a straight answer. I felt it was a good recommendation by the council, and they agreed to postpone this until a later date.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas said he is relieved the city is focusing on more pressing issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy gut feeling is that our council is interested in our town,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThese are people who care about this town, and I think they\u2019re dedicated to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knight said the city is now turning its attention to higher-priority concerns. For now, fixing the streets will have to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A street user fee that mayor Jason Knight said could have residents paying $1.50, commercial paying $3 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-110546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}