The $15 per license plate plan will create high paying jobs in our area. Jobs surveying the bridges and roads, engineering jobs designing the improvements, construction jobs for operators, masons, carpenters, laborers, truck drivers, and cement finishers building the projects and lastly future jobs from developers (homes and business) building in and around the improved streets.
Each dollar raised by the tax brings in four more dollars from ODOT and the federal government. These are our dollars that are being sent to Akron, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. These dollars can now be brought back home to build our roads into safer, smoother pavements and to rebuild our bridges.
Why now? Right now 20 bridges have load limitations, No other county around us has this problem. Mahoning County has a special property tax devoted strictly to bridges. The bridge in Minnesota that collapsed, failed in part because they did not have money to fix it. The engineers in Minnesota new exactly how many feet of cracks were in the beams prior to the bridge failure. They measured the cracking. They did not raise the money to fix the bridge.
Now is the time to act. (Actualy the time for action was 30 years ago when the opportunity to increase the fees was first presented). Our officials failed to act then. Let's not fail again, cause I still drive these roads and bridges.
$15 license-tax plan for Trumbull drivers comes with pledge
The $15 per license plate plan will create high paying jobs in our area. Jobs surveying the bridges and roads, engineering jobs designing the improvements, construction jobs for operators, masons, carpenters, laborers, truck drivers, and cement finishers building the projects and lastly future jobs from developers (homes and business) building in and around the improved streets.
Each dollar raised by the tax brings in four more dollars from ODOT and the federal government. These are our dollars that are being sent to Akron, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. These dollars can now be brought back home to build our roads into safer, smoother pavements and to rebuild our bridges.
Why now? Right now 20 bridges have load limitations, No other county around us has this problem. Mahoning County has a special property tax devoted strictly to bridges. The bridge in Minnesota that collapsed, failed in part because they did not have money to fix it. The engineers in Minnesota new exactly how many feet of cracks were in the beams prior to the bridge failure. They measured the cracking. They did not raise the money to fix the bridge.
Now is the time to act. (Actualy the time for action was 30 years ago when the opportunity to increase the fees was first presented). Our officials failed to act then. Let's not fail again, cause I still drive these roads and bridges.
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