“If we were to go out there tomorrow and fix the road we would not get a reimbursement,” he said
Progress is being made, Fiorenza said. A damage assessment form was sent Wednesday to the state department
, and it could be signed next week by the federal highway group.
The damage assessment form will show whether Imperial County will have to get environmental reports done, which would extend the time line, he said. Without the environmental reports, the county could get authorization to go out to bid within a month, and the bidding process would take another 30 days.
“And that’s thinking positive,” he said
“Unfortunately it’s still a process we’re having to go through,” he said.
The hoops that the department is having to jump through are part of the process of getting reimbursements for the project, which is estimated to cost $435,477, Fiorenza said,
That’s right to hell with the public. I guess they can not figure out how to put steel plates down, or fill with road base, or carve a bypass, or do anything but act like victims….. Well it is Imperial County.