Diagnosing Alarming Deficit in Road Repair Bill, City Director Tells Palm Coast Council: You Did This

Diagnosing Alarming Deficit in Road Repair Bill, City Director Tells Palm Coast Council: You Did This

In a remarkably gutsy moment at the end of his presentation on the city's deteriorating road system, Carl Cote, the city’s director of stormwater and engineering, reminded the council of how it has been reducing the tax rate for successive years since 2021. “In lieu of the rollbacks that council had done since then, if that was dedicated to resurfacing, that would be an additional $8.5 million we'd have in that program today,” Cote said. The pro…