Parma’s getting new gear!
April 13, 2008 by changingparma
At the March 18th town board meeting (link) highway superintendent Brian Speer proposed the purchase of desperately needed highway equipment to the board members.
A new 1/2 ton truck, a new dump truck and snow plow equipment. We here a CP have been covering issues about the highway department and its need for updated equipment since November of 2007. It is our firm belief that the highway department employees cannot do their jobs well with outdated euipment and therefore they are in need of newer items for the roadwork they do, roadwork which keeps us all safe.
Mr. Lemcke however has been opposed to the highway departments growth and has turned a deaf ear to its needs. He continued to hold the line on his non-support by voting against the funding proposed for the new equipment at this meeting. It continues to baffle this blogger why Mr. Lemcke has decided that providing for the needs of this department of town government is uneccessary. Doesn’t he realize that if we don’t do this incrementally we will need to do it all at once at some point in the future. Why burden the town with massive expenses at once when you can “pay as you go” over time.
