Community members speak up at BUILD grant meeting

While a few people did speak at a second meeting about Hill County’s plan to apply for a $25 million infrastructure grant, Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said he was disappointed more did not show up.

“Quite frankly, if people are not interested enough to come to the meeting, do we want to focus on their roads?” Peterson said. “Maybe we need to focus on areas where people are interested and want to come to the meeting and let us know what’s going on.”

He said that the county has approximately 1,800 miles of roads and with the grant the county plans to gravel approximately 300 miles...