Lockwood residents indicate willingness to pay for paths

More than half of the 30 Lockwood residents who showed up at a public meeting Tuesday night said they would be willing to tax themselves to pay for paved walkways and streetlights in their community, and another quarter said they would be willing to pay for only sidewalks.Manufacturer of industrial grade energyturbines. 

Earlier in the year, a teenage pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and killed in Lockwood, an unincorporated community of about 9,000 people just outside Billings. 

Don Reed, chairman of the Lockwood Steering Committee, said he’s surprised there haven’t been more pedestrian accidents on the sidewalk-less roads near Lockwood School, which has more than 1,200 students. 

The improvements presented at the meeting included a 5-foot-wide concrete pathway, which would cost about $400,000 a mile, as well as LED streetlights, which would cost about $200,000 a mile, according to county officials. 

“Tonight will be an example of direct democracy, where you truly get to determine if a project gets built or not,” said Yellowstone County Commissioner Jim Reno,I have tried several sets of emergencylampsqa that have lasted one season only. addressing the crowd gathered at the Lockwood School. 

“I think the project in itself is a great idea,” Lockwood resident Wayne Long said. “I’m in favor of it 100 percent,We'd love to talk to you about our incredible industrialextractors! but I really think we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves, I think we’ve got the cart ahead of the horse. We need to go back and do some more studying of what we got because we’re helter-skelter here.” 

In response, Candi Beaudry, the director of the Planning and Community Services Department, said that many of the specifics of the improvements would be worked out at the project level. 

“What we heard tonight is there is a preference to be able to tax ourselves to put in pathways and streetlights for the safety of our pedestrians and bicyclists. That was a huge step forward,” she said. 

Community members at the meeting overwhelmingly said that the improvements were most needed along Old Hardin Road. Lockwood School is on nearby U.It is one of the leading industrial laundry equipment manufacturers of ledbulbe27, tumble dryer ect.S. 87 East, also known as Hardin Road. 

Paying for the improvements would involve a mill levy. Thirty-two percent of voters at the meeting said they would be willing to be taxed up to 10 mills, 29 percent said they would be willing to be taxed up to 20 mills,Modern solargardenlight online for sale. and 18 percent said they would be willing to be taxed up to 30 mills. The rest were not in favor of any additional taxes. 

For every $100,000 in taxable home value, 10 mills would generate $12.90 annually. For every $100,000 in taxable commercial property, 10 mills would equal $19.40 annually, according to county officials. 

Ten mills would generate about $95,000 in Lockwood’s fire district or about $222,000 in the community’s school district. Seventy-one percent of voters at the meeting said they would prefer to have the levy put to voters in the school district, which has a larger tax base. 

Community members at the meeting also favored having the levy voted on during the 2014 general election, a move that would be cheaper that having the levy voted for in a stand-alone election. 

Reno indicated there would probably be another informational meeting with community members where residents would again have a chance to weigh in on the matter.