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Published July 23, 2008 09:53 am - Excuses on sidewalks Editor, Daily Press:
I would like to thank you for taking time to do a story over the sidewalks in this town. At the same time, all I received from the story was excuses from our city officials. The title, “City looking at ways to improve sidewalks,” doesn’t fit the facts. I’m sorry, but I haven’t seen improvements in our sidewalks. I have spent some time in concrete construction. Assistant City Administrator Kevin Smith makes it sound like it is extremely difficult to do sidewalks. The hardest part would be getting through the red tape of our city government. Maybe if he finds it really difficult to pour a sidewalk, he should resign and find someone who can do it. Also, the article speaks of the American Disabilities Act’s standards of having to have handrails on some sidewalks. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know every rule of that, but it seems like just having a sidewalk would be more in accordance of the rules than not having any. But maybe that’s a loophole. When I spoke of sidewalks in town, I was meaning the sidewalk in the residential part. Take a drive up the west side of Fourth Street and turn onto any one of the roads, and look to see if there are sidewalks or how bad of a shape they are in. I’m sure the city has done some work on sidewalks in other parts of town, which is great, but when all the article talks about is the money and I look at the skate park – which serves a lot more citizens than sidewalks would – I start to wonder. I do feel this town needed a place for skateboarders. But also, this town needs a safe place to walk. Also, Mike Corn says he receives $50,000 a year for sidewalk and drainage work. Yet at the end of the article, it says the budget is $200,000 this year. Now that’s a bit of a discrepancy. Also he speaks of the concrete being $100 per yard. While this is correct, I don’t think a lot of people understand how far that really goes. That would be roughly a 20-foot sidewalk, 4 inches deep by 4 feet wide. That means one mile of sidewalk would cost approximately $26,400, plus labor - almost half of what the skate park cost. I hope this helps someone else realize that maybe it’s not that the government doesn’t have the money to spend, but more on where they are spending the money. Shane Taylor Tahlequah 
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