Colbert County Commission Twiddles Thumbs as Frankfort Road Slides Away

Is everyone happy with how the new Colbert County jail is coming along? Oh, wait, we forgot. It's not coming along, is it? Well, the commission has other pressing matters.

Animal control is serious business, and the commission is on top of that, right? No? Afraid not. The county won't even consider updates to an almost 20 year old budget.

Well, roads! Yes, they're on top of the road conditions, right? What do you really think?!!!

Our blogger J. Redmon recently published a short article on the difficulties New Bethel School is experiencing due to its main access road being closed. We certainly got complaints from readers who seemed to think we blamed New Bethel for the problem. No, we can blame the flooding from last February...and the Colbert County Commission.

Approximately 300 feet of Frankfort Road was washed away or slipped from its base during the heavy floods from last winter. That section of road has remained closed to all traffic since the third week in February. After the flooding cleared, the county engineer announced that his department was "aggressively assessing" the damage. Just how does one aggressively assess something? Does one do a Maori war dance while viewing the damage? We're going to surmise that John Bedford meant "thoroughly," but for some odd reason thought "aggressively" sounded more gung ho. 

Bedford also announced that the county was attempting to secure emergency relief funds from the state department of transportation in order to do the work. We understand that asphalt/road work is comparable in cost to platinum, but the county doesn't have the emergency funds on hand to repair 300 feet of a two-lane road?

So here we are over three months later and the county is now beginning to consider bids on the project. Think about that. Your county commission in action. We sincerely hope that every resident of the Frankfort area, as well as every parent/teacher of New Bethel School, votes District 6 commissioner Charlie Hovater out of office...and that the rest of Colbert County follows suit with the other commissioners.

Who Needs a Border Wall When You Have the Colbert County Commission?