Government Priorities Needed

City government is responsible for building and maintaining adequate roads, bridges and storm sewers. These are the most important and most expensive pieces of infrastructure cities have and should have priority status, but they don’t.

County government is responsible for building and maintaining a clean water supply and sanitary sewer systems. They are also responsible for building and maintaining adequate roads, bridges and storm sewers in unincorporated areas of the county. These are the most important and most expensive pieces of infrastructure counties have and should have priority status, but they don’t.

State government is responsible for maintaining an adequate water supply by building and maintaining water reservoirs to store clean water and mitigate flooding.  These are the most important and most expensive pieces of infrastructure States have and should have priority status, but they don’t.

States could require that cities and counties build and maintain these most important and most expensive pieces of infrastructure as priority items, but they don’t.

Cities and counties have aging, broken, inadequate and dysfunctional water, sewer, highway and road systems. After 2010, the cost of building and maintaining these systems quietly doubled. Governments no longer take the lowest bidder with a “performance bond”. Instead, they cater to crony engineering and consulting firms. Cities and counties have City Managers and County Managers who are cronies with the Engineering Consulting Firms, “Smart Growth” consultants and States Municipal Associations and that’s how costs doubled.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader