Fiscal Approach Editorial part II

The 50% decrease in street maintenance funding from the 2010 allocation may be the result of an unsustainable effort to balance the 2013 budget. After all the miles of city streets to be maintained has not decreased while the age of those streets has increased. Addendum  [The streets department had been on a schedule of resurfacing two miles of  streets each year. Due to budget constraints no resurfacing is planned for 2013. Resurfacing delayed cost' more in the long term. The city has seventy seven miles of streets.