To the editor: For the past several years, the Southington Town Council and our Management Team have been transforming the delivery of services to our tax payers. Our goal is to provide the best quality services for a responsible and reasonable cost. One of the largest costs in our community is maintaining the infrastructure of our roads and bridges. The large cost of roads is why the Town Council initiated a pavement management system to grade the quality of our roads. Our grading system is used by our engineers as a tool to determine which roads get a maintenance program and which roads get rebuilt. When the voters approved two consecutive referenda totaling $22 million, they sent a clear message to “take care of our roads”. As many have witnessed this past year, the massive road projects have begun. Last year, we added a new maintenance program aimed at giving longevity to our existing roads and saving the tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars. As with items on one’s own home, if they aren’t maintained, they will not last. The first maintenance product used last year was Crack Sealing and the second was Chip Sealing. With the process being […]
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