Commissioner details plan to fix muddy roads in Logan County
LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) -- Muddy roads are affecting drivers in parts of Logan County.
Last week, News 4 talked with the Superintendent of Coyle Schools, who explained how school buses got stuck in the mud. Now, District Two County Commissioner Charlie Meadows said he has a plan to provide a more long-term solution.
Right now, Meadows said laying down gravel and shale on the muddy roads allows the roads to have a semi-permanent solution.
However, with the rain, snow and ice, the crews in district two couldn't lay down gravel.
"When a road is real wet and sloppy, you can't do anything with it. You can't grade it, you can't put rock down or anything. You have to wait till it dries out," said Charlie Meadows, the County Commissioner for District Two.
That delays when they can treat the roads.
Meadows drove our News 4 crew around district two and showed us where it's extremely bad.
In some areas, it was so thick with mud, the car couldn't even drive smoothly.
So, what's Commissioner Meadows' plan to fix the roads?
"I believe that I can form two [Tax Increment Financing] districts and pave with good asphalt, maybe 13, 14 miles of road," said Meadows.
Which means sectioning off an area of new home development that will reallocate the tax dollars and help fund the roads.
The first includes at least seven miles around Westminster, Anderson, and Charter Oak.
"The next place is right up here. This is Westminster and Highway 33. I want to pave about a mile and a half of Westminster, two miles of college, about a third of a mile of Douglas," said Meadows.
Meadows said paving these roads in the county will ultimately help the rest of district two.
"For every mile I pave, that's a mile that I don't have to put a grater on. That leaves me far more resources to do a better job on the rest of the on the rest of the roads here," said Meadows.
Meadows said an attorney will be going to the Commissioner meeting this Wednesday to help explain the TIF districts and see if the county will move forward with implementing the Tax Increment Financing.