City councilman Frank Gugliotta on Wednesday may have been the first person to use the word fungible in its proper context while inside the confines of City Hall.
But that wasn’t his biggest accomplishment.
That came when he summed up the reason for the council meeting in special session to hear comments on the adoption of a county wheel tax.
“What you’re doing is providing the county council with political cover, right?” Gugliotta asked county commissioner Larry Holscher at one point. “That’s why you’re coming to us for support of the tax?”
“And I’m OK with that,” Gugliotta said.
The commissioners are asking city and town councils to consider the tax, or at least to open up discussions on the levy, with the hope of getting the tax implemented and revenue from it rolling in beginning in 2015.
Holscher said everyone seems to be in agreement that roads and streets throughout the county, including in the cities and towns, are in poor shape and getting worse.
And, he said, most appear to agree that there isn’t enough money, within county government or the municipalities, to pay to fix them.
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