Up coming Town Elections

A Few posts down from here was the recap of last June's Town Council Meeting where the approval of the construction was voted on. It was a very confusing meeting to some and the fact that some yes votes meant no and some no votes meant yes and some abstained votes meant no.

The simple facts are this. The Transportation committee recommended in a 5-1 vote (Steve Lyda voting no) for the entire project to be done at one time and the total rejection of our pleading to break it up into phases.

Before the June town council meeting, we met with Tom Hayden and Al Filidoro and were asked by Al what do we want and what is acceptable to us. We told them we needed to buy time and delay the meat of the project as long as we possible could. Al took those wishes to the meeting and proposed the project be split into 2 phases, the second being the portion between 1171 and 3040 until at least 2014 and based on traffic studies, needs and funding still available.

That is where we stand today. Instead of the bulldozers poised to plow up the entire 6.6 miles at one time in a few short months, we are sitting with a plan that includes intersection improvements, new fencing, two new traffic signals and many more of the safety features we asked for included in the first phase.

This all came to being because Al Filidoro worked with opposing council members and convinced them to accept the compromise of dividing the project into 2 phases. WE GOT THE TIME WE NEEDED! WE WON! Part of the time that we needed gets us past this May's election.

I urge each of you to support Al Filidoro for re-election, The election of Steve Lyda (a long time supporter) and the next Mayor of Flower Mound Melissa Northern.

They will be visiting your neighborhoods soon and I hope you get to know them better because they are what is best for our town and our most important asset, us.

Thanks for listening,
Kim Berg