I am a township road commissioner in Illinois and have to deal with this daily. Some points to ponder: 1-My state is BROKE! They have been cutting our motor fuel tax money to the county which gives it to the townships. 2-The board of trustees will not raise taxes, lots of retirees around. 3-We have to deal with all the prevailing wage BS and the contractors we deal with have to pay this and into some kind of apprentice program that the union specifies or they'le protest every bid. Guess who gets to pay for all that? 4-Trucking rates are up costs more to even get gravel.We used to oil 5 miles of road a year now we can barely do 1. This year 0, all the money goes for rock. Don't even ask where the price of oil has gone! We are one of the smallest counties in Il, but are tax rates are as high as the next county over, highly populated. Sorry for the long rant, it's frustrating to see what you have to do but can't get it done because all the BS!
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