Get your local streets fixed

You know those holes the city has been digging up in the streets all along Alaska street right next to the flower pots?  It turns out the utilities were installing gas shut off valves.  Yep, there were none before.

Thank goodness nobody ever had a gas leak - it would have involved shutting the gas off for the entire neighborhood all at once until the leak was resolved.

The admiral went out and met Mandel Scott today, a city inspector who was looking at the patch jobs on the street that the utilities left behind.  And no surprises, he agreed they weren't up to snuff (how could he not as his car bounced around driving over each one).  Next step: he'll recommend the utilities come out and redo the street patch.  Even better, he gave the admiral his card so that if they take too long or the street gets too horrible in the mean time, we can call him up so we "don't get lost in the bureaucracy".

Mandel's great.  Keep fightin' for the good cause of Columbia City Mandel.  Now can you go talk to those guys over at DPD about customer service?