Fewer Charleston Streets to Be Paved This Year: ; the User Fee Will Bring in More Money, but Most of It Will Go to Police Protection

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Although Charleston Mayor Danny Jones wants to double the city user fee, the current dollar-a-week version isn't paving as many roads as usual.

The city recently signed a $670,833 contract with West Virginia Paving, based on asphalt costs of $65.23 per ton. That's down more than 61 percent ($1.07 million less) from the $1.74 million paving contract from last year.

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Fewer Charleston Streets to Be Paved This Year: ; the User Fee Will Bring in More Money, but Most of It Will Go to Police Protection

And it means less than one-third as many city streets will get paved as two years ago, when $2.1 million of user fee funds went toward paving.

User fee collections are expected to go ...

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