I know it sounds like a broken record but there is light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to better roads  in Oak Valley.

THE COUNTY HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO RE-SKIN OUR OAK VALLEY LANE BRIDGE AND REBUILD LIBERTY DRIVE, OAK VALLEY LANE, AND PIN OAK LANE (in that order).

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Mother Nature has not done us and the rest of the county any favors in the areas of road repair, tree trimming, and flooded streets over these past three months. So, the County has to get "caught up" with these repairs countywide before ROAD RE-CONSTRUCTION can take priority.   ...but we WILL get there.

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Here is the most updated information I have regarding where we stand with all of our projects:

1. POT HOLE REPAIRS - The County's Precinct 4 road crew plan to be out on our roads in late June to the early part of July, putting cold mix asphalt in our pot holes.  This is a temporary fix until they can come back in mid to late July (or possibly the first of August) to rebuild our main roads. Chances are that some small pot holes will not be filled or the decaying asphalt sides shored up. This repair is to make our drive on these roads not so treacherous until they come back to completely rebuild these roads. 

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2. DANGEROUS BRIDGE AND CREEK AREAS - Recently the mayor and alderman, Randy Burkey, traveled these roads with our Precinct 4 Commissioner, David Brewer, to inspect troublesome areas of our ditches along these three main thoroughfares and come up with a plan on how to address them during the Road  Re-Construction.  We feel good about how David and his road crew plan to address these problems with grading the ditches and building in more safety around two areas that need some type of embankment installed.  The county also plans to re-skin the Oak Valley Lane bridge during this period of rebuilding these main roads.

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3. TRIMMING OF TREES OFF OF POWER LINES - I recently spoke with the area manager for Oncor regarding the need to have our trees trimmed along our power lines.  Ignacio Vazquez assured me that he would work with the company that trims trees for Oncor to get their crews out to Oak Valley as soon as possible.  However, these crews are also backed up from the prior rains, so we just have to be patient and know that Oncor is working to get them out here as soon as they can.

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4. ANIMAL CONTROL - There is no good fix to this dilemma just yet; however, all Oak Valley residents need to be aware of what is in place.  Due to not having any countywide animal control shelter or operations, state law requires the Navarro County Sherrif to be the de facto Animal Control Officer. If you see a stray, you should contact the sheriff's office. They may not pick the dog up if the Corsicana Animal Control Shelter is full.

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5. ANNEXATION -  We are getting "very close" to entering phase 2 of our annexation process. Phase 2 includes notifying all land owners who are eligible to be added to our city limits with land owner approval. This also include scheduling a public hearing over our annexation plan.  Our plan will help us drastically build up our Annual Town Revenues and allow us to make additional repairs to our smaller roads and ditches, resolve potential flooding, build out our Town Park, enhance our voluteer fire department, address animal control and provide other community development services to our Town and County.

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6. ROAD RE-CONSTRUCTION - We WILL rebuild our three main throughfares this Summer.  Our hope is to start construction sometime in July but no later than August.    When we begin our road construction, we will notify our residents via Facebook and this website as to road closures that will be necessary for rebuild each roadway. The plan is to shut down a section of road at 9:00 a.m. and reopen that section around 4:00 p.m. that same day.  It will take several weeks to rebuild all three of our roads. We also hope to be able to clean out and repair several culverts in our town that are blocked up and creating some of our flooding conditions.

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