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Killeen Mayor Pro Tem Debbie Nash-King invited residents to attend a community informational forum Monday night at Mr. Gattiâs Pizza in Killeen, and about a dozen people showed up to participate.
At 6 p.m., residents gathered at the restaurant, where city officials discussed road infrastructure and the cityâs budget process. Attendees also had the opportunity to provide their own feedback.
The hot topics of the night turned out to be roads and components of the budget that will be discussed in greater detail at the next council meeting July 6.
In addition to Nash-King, Killeen City Manager Kent Cagle, executive director of development services Tony Mcllwain and Public Works Director Jeffrey Reynolds were also in attendance.
Killeenâs roads are a mess.
That should be obvious to anyone who drives on them regularly. And the situation has only gotten worse since the severe winter weather that pummeled the area in February left many streets with potholes, broken pavement and in some cases, entire sections of missing asphalt.
The damage has been so severe that Killeen City Manager Kent Cagle told City Council members in early March that about $40 million would required to repair the damage. Thatâs on top of the $120 million needed for repairs to Killeenâs 539 miles of streets and roads, based on a yearlong city-funded study by Transmap, an Ohio-based firm.
Questions and controversy continue to swirl around Killeen City Manager Kent Cagleâs lone pick for the cityâs next assistant city manager after city officials departed from the previous procedure of keeping the Killeen City Council and the public in the loop on who the top finalists are for one of the cityâs top administrative positions.
Those transparency details didnât happen this year when Cagle sprung on the council at a workshop meeting last week that he had offered the assistant city manager job â Killeenâs No. 2 chief administrative staffer behind Cagle himself â to Danielle Singh, Killeenâs executive director of public works.
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