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A $5.8 million loan is being considered by Angelina County commissioners to help repair roads throughout the county.
KTRE reported the loan would improve over 150 miles of roads in the county. The commissioners have been working on this loan since November.
“The only problem that we have is there’s not enough money in the budgets to build back roads,” Commissioner Greg Harrison told KTRE. “Yeah, we could patch for the first six months, but then we’re broke again and that’s time we really need to be working.”
When the loan was first considered, it was for $7.2 million. That amount was later lowered because commissioners didn't want to raise taxes.
“This is adding no more burden to the taxpayer,” Harrison told KTRE. “We're not going to raise your taxes to do it. But you also deserve to have roads that are better than what they are, and this is the only way I know to do it.”
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