Staff Reports
Although voters overwhelmingly rejected a recent proposition to tax residents $28 a month on utility bills to generate funds for road improvements, one plan will remain in place to fix roads soon.
Work has been approved for improvements on N.W. 164/Washington Avenue between Cemetery Road and Frisco Road, and on Frisco Road for a mile from N.W. 178/Edmond Road, to N.W. 192/ Arrowhead Road.
City Manager Jason Orr said Canadian County crews are using county equipment to grind up these sections of road and the City of Piedmont Public Works Department will apply and roll asphalt millings afterward. There will be no charge for the county labor and the millings are left over from a previous project on Piedmont Road, Orr said.
“We anticipate beginning within the week,’ Orr said.
Piedmont Road was recently resurfaced for a mile in north Piedmont. Work wrapped up at the end of last year.
On Jan. 12, voters rejected a tax that had been proposed by the city council as a means to fund roadwork in Piedmont.
But the proposed Piedmont road tax failed with 81.45% of voters against the proposal in a special election Tuesday.
The final vote showed 81.45% against the proposal, or 988 no votes, to 18.55% in favor, or 225 yes votes, with all three precincts, absentee and early votes counted, the State Election Board reported.
If it had been approved, a $28 a month tax on utility bills for two years would have been collected to fund about $1.6 million in road improvements, city officials said.
