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world the county would hire an appropriately skilled independent contractor who would conduct a study of our roads in which an array of relevant variables would be controlled. To do so would cost a bundle, probably necessitate the collection of new data rather than a review of records (i.e. secondary information) and could take years.
This being the real world the county, instead, should obtain those studies which deal with the general topic of rural road paving and safety. Although it might be necessary to hire a consultant to gather, analyze and report on this secondary information the cost in dollars and time should be modest.
Further reductions could be achieved by delegating responsibility to the Planning Commission for exploring: the availability of relevant data; staffing (i.e.
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