The City of Cape Girardeau asked for the public opinion on Local Road Construction
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – Cape Girardeau citizens have been given the opportunity to give their opinion on how the city of Cape should spend their transportation trust fund of twenty five million dollars.
The TTF fund committee is reviewing current transportation needs, and the citizens of Cape Girardeau are able to help make the decision.
Cape Girardeau public work director Casey Brunke tells us what the event has to offer to citizens.
” We have a cash game that people can play. We give you $25 million to spend on our projects. We have way more needs than 25 million. But I mean, we want people to kind of be in our shoes. You know, we’d love to go and fix everything, but we only have a certain Dollar amount to work with. ”
These events are held To help decide where the twenty five million dollars is spent.
We talked to the city of Cape Girardeau engineer Jake Garrard, about why it’s important to make your thoughts known.
“We would love all the input we can get. We want our citizens to come out. We want them to speak. They are the users of these roads. I can sit in my office all day and think about what i think the needs are, but i want to hear from our citizens on which roads they use every day. ”
He says they are looking to hear more from citizens about roads they may not be as familiar with.
“so many of our citizens in town have different perspectives. And we want those perspectives. We want that input. We would love to hear from our citizens on what they want.”
Brunke says the data collected from these games will head to the council for the next phase in the decision making process.
“We take all that input. The committee goes back, we analyze it. We we, we whittle it down as much as we can with the budget that we have, and then ultimately we make a recommendation to council. Council will have the final say on what actually makes it on the ballot come April with our TTF seven initiative. ”
