A few years back we had a 6'x 6' deep sink hole right across the street from our house. Several city bureaus came out for over two weeks to try to lay the blame on the other. Our sewer lines here are over 100 years old and the street hasn't been macadamized for over 12 years even thought PDOT promised to do so eight years ago. So BES tried to lay the blame on PDOT because the street has numerous holes that street surface water can penetrate the street. The PDOT tried to blame the Water Bureau because the water lines here are over 80 years old and they are likely causing the problem. One day there were over six vehicles with twelve city employees looking down into the hole. Who paid for what I never did find out. They tried to make our neighbors pay the bill since they couldn't get into their garage all this time.

Suggestion for Adams, at your budget outreach meetings, listen to the taxpayers who complain that CoP isn't funding infrastructure adequately-even by a long shot. Forget all the pet projects and do something like fix the broken major sewer line in Lair Hill that has been broken for over a year and no definate time table is given for the fix. Get to work.

If you run your "townhall meetings" like the tram meeting at PSU, forget it. You and staff talked for two hours with a song and dance, then asked for audience questions for half an hour. The questions were 1 minute long, and your replies (many time not answers) were 5-l0 min. long.