Faith and confidence in how your community is operated and how your valuable tax dollars are spent - is earned, it does not come from the text published by the current "Atta Boy" town administrator, patting himself on the back, in the town mouthpiece " Trail Gazette". The competent and professional application of basic services, smooth and invisible, translates into a well manage community.
Do not tell me how good you are, actions speak louder than all your words combined.
Case in point: the street painting project currently under way, at the end of September.
What’s the problem with that you ask?
The answer is; snow removal and the sanding of icy roads.
Any fool that knows Colorado mountain living - knows that in the winter our roads must be plowed and sanded, plowing and sanding grinds away the cross walks and lane dividers. Snowing, plowing and sanding will begin any day now and before our paint is dry, we will begin sand blasting it off. All the other Colorado communities, with half a noodle, paint and line their streets first thing late spring - so they look good and have proper cross walks for all the tourists that come by the millions. There go tens of thousands of our dollars down the crapper - all that paint will be gone by Christmas.
The only exception to this basic rule of street maintenance in Colorado, are the high priority areas - school zones.
The bass-ackwards gang is at it again.
Estes Park if you do not demand better - you will never get it, Mayor John why do you allow this kind of goofy operations?
