Inside Mesa

Mesa’s city council has generally planned well except for this - planning for the repair and maintenance of the city’s infrastructure.With the rapid growth Mesa has experienced over the many decades, Mesa has generally planned well for building NEW roads, NEW water lines, and NEW sewer lines. Now, much of the infrastrucure that was put in years ago are nearing the end of its useful life. The 20 feet of sewer line that was just replaced at Southern Avenue and Stapley cost the city $600 thousand!"This is what I tried to get accross" said council member Kyle Jones refering to the last election that featured the property tax. Well Kyle, this point was never really gotten accross.What people are failing to realize is that the money for building new roads, fire and police stations, and new infrastructure are in the budget. What has been missing is the money to replace the OLD assets. Mesa is still using vehicles from the 1980’s. With the sales tax passing, Mesa will have enough to buy 11 new vehicles for their utility department. The problem is that they need to replace about 50 more and won’t be able to do it.The bottom line will be that when repairs are needed, the vehicles that Mesa’s utility workers use will also be in need of repair and will probably in the repair shop delaying those needed repairs.