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Lake Worth city leaders look for solutions to pothole problems

Posted at 12:59 AM, Jun 09, 2016
and last updated 2016-06-09 06:42:02-04

Lake Worth has a pothole problem and it keeps getting worse with ongoing downpours.

Second Avenue South in Lake Worth is a microcosm of the issue. 

"I think they're springing up faster than they're getting filled," says Linda Bailey.

The road back in March was pothole central. The city then patched it up, but fast forward to today, Bailey says it's just as bad.

City leaders say they don't have the funds to fix it.

"Money should be raised," says Bailey.

Despite voting against a $63 million bond in 2014 that eventually failed, Commissioner Christopher McVoy says it's a multi-million dollar issue that needs addressing.

He says money could come from all sorts of places like operating expenses or bonds could be revisited.

City leaders recently put their support towards a county wide one-cent sales tax increase proposal which goes to a vote this November.

"My understanding over 10 years, it would bring in about 24 million so about $2.4 million a year. That doesn't fix all of the streets, but it would certainly be a help," says McVoy.

There is a workshop scheduled for the end of this month for community input on solving the issue.