CLARKSVILLE — Two county residents addressed the Purple River County Courtroom over a number of pothole issues and gaveled over paved roadbeds alongside the county highway they reside on in Precinct 4 in Purple River County.
“I’m not right here to crucity anyone, however I’ve an issue with placing gravel on a paved highway,” stated CR 4450 resident Billy Joe Gray, who handed out pictures of the potholes and gravel coated roadway. “I simply don’t need gravel put over a paved highway.”
Anthony Stovall, who additionally lives on the county highway in query, stated his spouse broken her new automotive after hitting one of many deeper potholes on CR 4450.
“I do know manpower is a matter,” Stovall stated. “There’s something that must be achieved.”
“In case you come down right here, I’ll provide you with some coal,” Precinct 4 Commissioner Danny Halley stated. “I’ll additionally inform you there are folks on that highway who requested that the highway not be fastened as a result of folks drive so quick down it.”
Gray and Stovall stated they’ve each up to now fastened holes within the highway, they need one thing extra everlasting. Gray stated the highway has not been correctly attended to all three years he has lived on it.
If that they had simply paved or fastened one mile a 12 months, it could be achieved by now, Gray stated.
In different enterprise, the fee:
• Accepted a examine from Tapley Forestry for highway harm in precinct 2,
• Authorised the constable’s request to mortgage a county cell phone to the Clarksville chief of police of the Clarksville ISD,
• Voted to proceed assembly the second and fourth Mondays of each month, and
• Authorised TxDOT Aviation Routine Airport Upkeep grant for fiscal 12 months 2022.
