Stillwater NewsPress article below in continue reading.... It appears that our county commissioners are getting the WRONG input because of who shows up at their meetings. Previously the Stillwater NewsPress did a great front page article on the deputy enforcing truck weight limits on our roads. Now at the most recent Payne County Commissioners meeting there has been a backlash. WE should be the disgruntled residents asking the commissioners to continue stopping these overly-heavy fracking and oil equipment trucks from tearing up our roads!!! We need MORE enforcement, not less, such as demanded by this dude. Let your county commissioner know what you think. Kel PS - How ironic he thinks enforcing weight limits is spreading the poison. Roads dominate Payne County Commission meeting Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:00 am By Michelle Charles/Stillwater News Press Payne County commissioners faced two disgruntled residents at their meeting Monday. Both men raised legal issues regarding county roads. Larry Wheatley made his third appearance in three weeks to complain about weight limits on asphalt roads in the county and say that deploying a size and weight deputy to issue citations to overweight trucks stops the flow of commerce. He questioned the county’s legal authority to put weight limits on the roads and said propane delivery drivers aren’t able to make deliveries without getting fined. “People are being interfered with,” he said. “It’s asinine. It’s stupid. The roads are junk and you’re trying to cover it up.” He also questioned whether the bridges on county roads are built with federal funds and asked why so much money is being spent to pave roads that go into McElroy and Lakeview roads. He claimed other counties are being influenced to put 30,000 pound weight limits on their paved roads. “Someone is spreading this poison,” he said. In a separate matter, Les Imbolden appeared to say he thinks the county should buy a new easement for his property at 204 North Old Highway 51. Imbolden said he recently found documents from the 1920s when the state acquired easements to build the original State Highway 51 that seem to say the easement is vacated if the state stops maintaining the road. Maintenance of sections of Old Highway 51 and a few other roads was transferred to Payne County in the 1960s. Since then, the county has assumed responsibility for them. Imbolden said the way he reads the document, the county should have to buy a new easement from him for the public road. Commissioner Chris Reding said the transfer was strictly administrative. “I’m not seeing why we need to purchase something we have a legal right to,” he said. Assistant District Attorney Lowell Barto said the easement agreement remained in force when the road was taken from the state highway system and transferred to the county highway system. That transfer doesn’t constitute abandonment as a roadway. Commissioner Zach Cavett said he won’t be buying anything unless a court order forces him to.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:23:11 +0000
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