
By David M. Greenwald
It was 2010 when I watched Bob Clarke of Public Works give a staff presentation for the city of Davis that the city of Davis was allocating no general fund money toward road repairs that I realized there was a problem brewing. The city had always been able to rely on state and federal grants to fund road repairs, but those were cut off by the Great Recession, and for the most part have not returned.
The cost estimates have gone up…