Lakewood Mayor Announces Breakthrough Developments in Pothole and Road Repair in Lakewood

the pole situation in Lakewood keeps getting worse year after year um I had just finished a two-hour meeting with myself the town manager Tom Henshaw um Al Burge and tonyi from public works and committee leaon to Public Works committee man Kohl's and I've been in constant contact with Deputy Mayor Miller committee man lonstein and committee M deia um we made the decision to move forward and bring Lakewood to a new level on Poole repair and and Road repair in the short term because of what we have to deal with what we have we're going to be having a minimum of five crews out from Public Works to to repair any pools that are out there right now unfortunately some of these fixes will only be temporary and they may come out but we we're left with no choice because the situation is very bad um in the very very near future hopefully within the week we we will be contracting out with a company that uses the same material same equipment as the state it's called pothole killers and they make their own permanent fix material so so they'll be going around town and hopefully within a week or two we'll be able to cover the entire town with permanent fixes in the future we intend to either lease or or rent these machines we'll have our our members of Public Works trained in this equipment so that they can manage them on their own it'll it'll end up being less costly for the township and their appears will be much more permanent and we'll be able to do it during any season winter or summer um some of the other plans plans that we have for the future that were discussed with the committee in the past or or today are uh making new guidelines for how people who open up roads have to fix them such as utility companies and and um um utility companies or Builders when they open up a road and they repair it we're going to have much stricter requirements so that so that the they don't lead to potholes and there there won't be any seams in the road when they're done their repairs we also for the future because our roads are in such disrepair and many of them are very old we're planning to do a multi-million multi multi-year program where we we'll be repairing all the old roads in in the township um I just want to thank everybody on the committee for for being together with me on this and for helping me formulate this plan again Deputy Mayor Miller Comm Kohl's committee lonstein and uh committee man deia we're all together on this and we're all working very hard to make sure we change the culture of how liid deals with these paddles because they keep getting worse and worse every year and we really want to put an end to it we understand what everybody's going through and we're going through it ourselves and we hope that the future will be a lot better in this regard