KansasvilleHerald.com

Engineering fees from Applied Technologies to repave approx. 3 miles of road (Terrace Boat Launch to Hwy J and on Vanderboom from 1st to Count Line Road) @ $88 an hour with the support of Dean Larsen and Patrick H. on Thomas Lembcke's watch. Ray Gromacki did the long division in front of myself and Pete Griel and came up with roughly 357 hours give or take! Ray also stated that something is discolored when you see fees like this one.

This was prior to his 2007 term in office. Ray told Pete that he needed support from him and his family to win that election so that he could stop the bilking of the community for thousands of dollars. After Ray made it into office, Pete asked him, “Why can you get away from this consulting firm.” Ray communicated that the town can not run without them.

Payne & Dolan were the ones that ended up doing the work work in three 12 hour days. They have their own engineers and they are also highly recommended by the Governor. There is also no reason why you need to pay a consulting firm $88 per hour to get involved with potholes, painting the yellow lines on the road, and on other related projects. See how the $31,500 was spent in this meeting minutes snippet:

meetingMinutesSection20061211.pdf

This resurfacing got cut short. The portion a Hwy N was only paved halfway, to Rays house.  According to the Paper, Ray is going to finish going past his house to Hwy J.  What is it about town chairmans paving the roads in front of their own houses?