RCPOA Roads Committee
Rodgers Creek Roads
With 9.5 miles of rural roads to maintain, the primary focus of our Roads Committee is to ensure adequate attention to ongoing repair, timely maintenance and increased oversight of all material distribution/contracting activities for our roads.
Current Roads Report
Road Budget
Road Budget
Stevin Barringer did all of our road work with the POA tractor. Since his passing less than one month ago, we have been working to get to a new normal. Please allow us some time to get things going again. We will update as soon as we are able. Rest assured, the POA will still have use of the tractor the POA purchased. We just need to allow time for Stevin's family to work through everything on their end. We as rational, compassionate human beings will be giving his family time. We have already had volunteers to help maintain the roads once we get up and running again with the tractor.
Recent Invoices can be viewed here.
Local Road Repair NEWS - Ellijay Times-Courier Newspaper
ROAD REPAIRS ARE PLANNED, IF ONLY ...
Tue, 03/05/2019 - 3:36pm BY: TIMES-COURIER
When the Times-Courier posted two questions on its Facebook page seeking comments about how incessant rains have affected our local roads, we got — pardon the pun — a flood of responses. There were 132 posts about roads, to be exact. Out of those, maybe one or two people noted the problem the county is up against with the wet stuff holding up any patching of potholes or other work that needs to be done.
Officials are frustrated. Chairman Charlie Paris has stated several times in the past two years that complaints about county roads are the number one issue he faces on a weekly basis. Some residents have also posted comments about being unable to see the faded white and yellow lines on our roads at night, but to be fair, some of those highways are the state Department of Transportation’s responsibility.
One woman asked us in a Facebook message, “Now that you have gathered all of these responses, what are you going to do?” We had a story planned before we asked readers their opinions on local roads, and found that county leaders do have a plan in place to address road conditions ...
If it ever stops raining.
Local weather data reveals the county received more than 14 inches of rain during the month of February. This week, a bout of extreme cold (at least for the South) will exacerbate road problems as the water that has flooded into cracks freezes and forces pavement to spew up, creating more potholes.
Be that as it may, commissioners do have a plan. Money is set aside in the 2019 budget to purchase another pothole patcher and a truck to mount it on, and more personnel will be hired to run the machinery.
As citizens, we sometimes have a tendency to complain about the local taxes we have to pay, but we also need to keep in mind that when county leaders sit down each year to plan a budget, they’re actually looking at ways to spend each dollar collected as property, sales and ad valorem taxes, among other revenue.
Now if it will only dry out ...
