As expected, the City Council unanimously approved spending more than $40,000 on two studies to determine some potential fixes to our sanitary and stormwater sewer system.
I believe that these votes are an example of the commitment of city leaders to not just talk, but act, in response to the flooding disaster of July 22-23. As I’ve said, there are no silver bullets to this complex issue, nor no quick fixes. But I feel strongly we’re doing all we can, even if FEMA isn’t.
Learn more about the studies in my post below, and cast your vote on the new poll question on the right-hand side of this page.
I’ll keep you posted on what the studies find … and the options they reveal. Indeed, it is at that point that another, more substantive debate, will have to happen here. We’ll then need to answer this question: Just how much should the city spend to address these problems?
In a separate vote, a vote on a condominium garbage collection policy was pushed off to our next meeting on Sept. 7 after a parliamentary maneuver kept the issue from coming to an actual vote Tuesday. (It likely would have passed 4-3).
I’ll blog more about this issue as the meeting approaches.
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