The flood repair list can be efficient and still be unfair to read. A crew that visits one street at a time saves travel, yet the posted list gives every household the same place in line even when one report concerns a wet foundation and another concerns a loose stair rail.
The city has a record that could make the difference visible. Grant forms include the date of the damage report, the assessor’s category and the date of the first visit. The board currently posts only the street sequence.
Neighbors who support street grouping are right about its value. Reordering every visit after every new report would waste crew hours. That is not an argument against showing the wait; it is a reason to publish both the travel plan and the time a household has been waiting.
The grant office should add a wait column before the next river rise. Residents would see which cases are delayed, and the city would have a public measure for deciding whether a faster route is worth its cost.
The grant board closed this review by approving a wait-time column for the next repair cycle. This opinion argues for keeping that measure public after the trial.
