Huh?

Yesterday I had to walk down to the store and lo and behold there were city workers tearing up the sidewalk. In any other town I would think nothing of it. Except I'm in Kalama. I've lived here for one year now, and they are either really bored, or they are grinding up tourists bones and don't know what else to do with the dust except make cement. When I was moving in they had the whole sidewalk dug up and repoured. A month later they completely demolished the street and repaved. A month after that, they said the parking space lines weren't up to snuff, so they repainted. No big deal right? Only about a month after that, they ripped up the pavement again and redid the entire street. They took a little break, and then started at it again. They ripped the whole sidewalk up again about four months ago. Complete with ripping out all the trees on mainstreet. Including Twenty thousand dollars worth in front of a privately owned restaurant. The owner of said restaraunt had just paid to put them in. Kalama city officials said they don't fit with the "beautification" of downtown Kalama. Okay they finally get done doing that while I'm in California, so about the end of July. Then Mike calls me while I'm there and says, "you'll never guess what they are doing now". It's ten o'clock at night, what could they be doing? They apparently spent all night repaving the street AGAIN. Now it's September and they are ripping up the damn sidewalk for a third time in a year. Are you serious? Does any body else think this is a gross misuse of tax payer money? I mean if they have that much extra money laying around, maybe they could invest in some "interacting with outsiders" classes for the locals. Oh but wait, the sidewalk is perpetually repaved because people like me pay $250 dollars a month for water, sewer, and garbage. *Sigh* this place blows. But, it's also a black whole. Once you move here, it's too expensive to save up to move away.