Bumpy Ride For Dirt Road Bill

Governor Grand Bay  At the last minute the Dirt Road Bill gets vetoed by the Governor and then overridden by the House. How will the Senate vote?
by Tiffany Craig
Published: Tue, May 05, 2009 - 4:40 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, May 05, 2009 - 4:49 pm CST
The Mobile County Dirt Road Bill is just one step away from being law.

The bill is designed to make it legal for the county to do basic maintenance on some private dirt roads. Thousands of families live on roads deemed private by the county but they are in such bad shape, they can't even get ambulance or school bus service.

Both the Alabama House and Senate voted in favor of the bill but late Tuesday, Governor Bob Riley vetoed it. The house has already overridden the veto and we're waiting to hear how the senate votes.

Thousands of people living on dirt roads are hoping the bill will pass. It was introduced by State Representative Spencer Collier. He says the county would decide which roads get maintenance and it would require work from property owners too. "It will set up a process where they have a remedy but a lot of the burden will fall to homeowners and property owners to collect the proper number of signatures. They have to be willing to give up the right of way and fill out the proper paperwork."

Liz Waite lives on Grand Farms Road West and says she doesn't care what it takes, they need the help. "I can't see anybody that would resist donating whatever amount of land needed or buying a culvert to get the road at least graded."

The voting on the Dirt Road Bill must be done by Midnight. We'll let you know what happens.

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The County Commissioners need to and must take control of the personnel. The following is just my opinion and belief. There are only a very very few employees that earn their pay. The rest of them are milking their paycheck. I have been waiting on information from the County Attorney that I should have received months ago. I was told this by a very honest and reliable source. I was told that Commissioner Dean ask the Attorney to call me about the status of the petition that was given to the County in Jan.09. Instead the Attorney had his sec. that is home recovery from surgery to call me to set up an appointment to make an appointment. As I understand it this Attorney has his own office as well as taking care of County business. Again this is only my belief but if an Attorney can not provide adequate representation for his client or clients he needs to remove himself from the job. In this situation the client is OUR County Government. I believe that is part of their oath. Correct?

Barney sent me to get Andy and come right away. Ernest T. has been at the meth again. How can you tell Goober? Well, I tell you Floyd he is a jumping around hollering out nonsense and chunking rocks. Ohhh yes yes I see, but you’ll never get him down that road. He’ll hear you coming Goober. Don’t you worry none Floyd,  Barneys done dressed up like Charlene Darling and is carrying a meth pipe. He come a running. I got to find Andy

Oh, and I’m not better than people that live on dirt roads, I’m just better than people who live in PRIVATE roads, and are too stupid to understand what that means…

My parents were intelligent enough to purchase homes on streets with public access.

I mean really. Why do you think you deserve special treatment? Your road is PRIVATE, and has been since it was created.

LOL.. I think it is funny that you think you are so much better then the people that live on dit roads. Just because you live in a spot with high taxes. NEWS FLASH you ain’t.. Is it our fault because you pay high taxes? NO!!!! they use our tax money to build sports arena’s and buy personnal loans from people but you are going to complain because we are asking the county to spend 20 dollars in gas to grade our road once a month. you need to grow upand quit being childish. we ain’t doing this to break the county’s budget just to get a little help for our children and the elderly people that live on these roads medical and police help if needed. Is that to much to ask for. What if it was your parent that lived down one of these roads and the ambulance couldn’t get to them and they died. You would be wanting something done to. Or one of you children.. so think of that. that is what we are thinking of.

Now that’s a good point why we need to get the roads in shape. So the sheriff’s office can get down the roads to bust the meth heads and meth labs.

Oh, and can you show me these daily news stories about Crichton? As far as I know, int he past three years there are only two stories. The one about the Leprechaun, and the double murder two weeks ago.

No, my two jobs are paying for my food, rent, lights, cellphone, computer, internet, car, car insurance, health insurance, clothes, etc.

AND, since I live in the city…I’m paying more taxes than you are…making my citizenship much more valuable than yours.

So why don’t you take your little assumptions back to hicksville where you belong?

(I bet you think I’m black and eat fried chicken, too1)

I know right where you live. It is where all the crack heads and drug dealers live..where everynight on the news some is shot there or raped or murdered.. I would live there if the state paid my rent and living expens too.. So my tax dollars are paying for your food and rent and lights. So why are you complaining? you are using our tax dollars to..

Gotcha!  Speaking of people complaining of noise, can you imagine all the complaints from these residents if the county does take over the maintenance of the road.  They’ll be complaining about all the trucks and equipment making too much noise.  Some people are never satisfied!

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