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of funds for sidewalks fromAVALONno in such 11 CHEVY MALIBUfor LT matching 09 TOYOTA XLS necessity 02 CHEVY TAHOEwalks 4X4 02 GMC ENVOY poor condi05 MAZDA 3 New Sidewalks for Bonham7/17/18 a variety of sources. Mr.12/25/18 Tru- funds from the City. tion as to be unusable, and
did very quickly. Next, Mr. Pate worked with the Paris 05 NISSAN 05 CHEVY SUBURBANplaces 05that CHEVYmay TRAILBLAZER 05 VWbeJETTA District of TxDOT, and was bey was advised there wereALTIMA State roads in Bonham need to SUNROOF, LEATHER, AUTO • $7,998 LEATHER • $8,750 4X4 • $6,998 5 SPEED, DRIVES GREAT • $5,998 funds available for side- include highways 121, 56, altered to become handicap told the state would be doing walks along state highways 78, and 9th street going to accessible. Once again- the some work on ADA projects and if Bonham provided a and from the VA Hospital. city was not required to do at several locations within simple map of state roads Mr. Trubey asked City Man- any additional work or pro- Bonham and putting in new inside Bonham city limits, ager, Sean Pate, to provide vide funds. curb ramps and sidewalks. indicating where sidewalks a map, indicating places Mr. Pate directed the That part of the project were needed, the state may along state highways with streets department to de- was scheduled in February be able to provide them with no sidewalks, those side- velop the map, which they 2018, but it wasn’t clear if, or when other sidewalks would be done. Mr. Trubey and Mr. Pate followed up with the state, again, in August 2018. At the end of August, TxDOT had a pre-construction meeting with the contractor and they stated there was a plan on having a subcontractor start the project several months ago, but that subcontractor left them and they were trying to “get a crew put together.” TxDOT said they were supposed to start work as early as the first week of September. Here we are in December, and the work is being done in Bonham. We are getting new sidewalks in some places and we expect to get more! What is the moral of the story? LEATHER, SUNROOF• $16,998
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Thanks to the dedicated work of City Councilman John Trubey, the City of Bonham is getting damaged sidewalks replaced and new sidewalks where there were none. Councilman Trubey
began to seek funds for sidewalks and infrastructure improvements from state and federal governments, in 2017. In August 2017, he spoke with someone at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in Austin about the availability
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