2015-07-21 Addressing Macon-Bibb Commission
Considerations for Spending T-SPLOST and Blight Remediation Funds
 Next MATS Policy meeting is scheduled for August 5, 2015. 
T-SPLOST 
Will citizens agree to tax themselves for a Roads Program that has virtually no effective citizen oversight? 

Citizen voters - overwhelming consensus of citizens for many years has asked for a safer design for various roads. Not safer for Speeders.  Safer for people, pedestrians and neighborhood kids. 

CAC - Citizens Advisory Committee of MATS - has been gutted for over 7 months.  There currently is no CAC Chairman or presence on the MATS Policy Committee.  This is in violation of the MOU with state and federal officials. 

Blight 
Blight Prevention is worth "Pennies on the Dollar" of results. 
Forest Hill Rd (FHR) design will Blight the adjacent neighborhoods.  
-people do vote with their footsteps away from blighted streets 
How do we know this?  
- What citizens like is documented in the Visual Preference Survey program report

Beautification -vs- Blight - Macon-Bibb Tree Commission for many years has consistently recommended a different design for Forest Hill Rd 

Board of Education 
Safe Routes to Schools Program is not being honored in the designs of FHR and Jeffersonville Road 
- Complete Streets Program 
- Traffic Calming Program 
- Roundabout Intersection at FHR and Old Lundy - safer and cheaper for the taxpayers.  What other reasons are needed to change this?  

T-SPLOST is wanted by the Macon-Bibb Administration...?  
- Show us the wisdom needed to administer a T-SPLOST . 
- Show us the wisdom by acting to rectify the wrong designs in the current road program.   
- Show us the wisdom to embrace citizen advisors who have studied these problems for many years... many more years than the Commission has the time to explore. 
- Commissioners, please show us the wisdom to over-ride the Macon-Bibb administration when it is clearly wrong. 
   ---Lindsay D. Holliday, DMD office (478) 746-5695   h- 742-8699