Suppose you bought a new house. Only five years later the foundation is cracked, and it will cost you $100,000 to fix it. Seems your new house was built with substandard material and using a design unfit for our climate. Would you want to sue the bozo who stiffed you?
This paper tells us that Concord will have to pay $100,000 dollars to fix Main Street crosswalks that are only five years old (Sunday Monitor Local & State, April 14).
So what is the city doing to get money back from the contractor who built the crosswalks and did such a wonderful job that they are now falling apart?
Reporter Caitlin Andrews tells us “the money for the repairs will come out of leftover funds from the Main Street renovation project.”
Leftover funds? How much in “leftover funds” is the city holding? Why is it holding any at all after five years? And why hasn’t this money been used to reduce property taxes?
Apparently expecting city government to account to property-tax payers is as far-fetched as expecting a newspaper to run real news about how city hall is run.
MARK RUFO
Concord