Members of the countywide transportation committee chimed in after a mere handful of residents, including city and county officials, showed up for the metropolitan planning organization meeting last week.
Bobby Balli, a member of the Kendall County, Boerne and Fair Oaks Transportation Committee, noted Kendall County likely could be swallowed up by the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in the upcoming years, weighing the pros and cons of the potential annexation.
“It’s (AAMPO) just another form of bureaucracy in my opinion,” Balli said, who was one of two transportation committee members present. “Only my opinion. I can’t speak for Ben (Eldredge) or all of y’all (the committee), but it’s strength in numbers. You know, you have a bigger platform of folks going for funding. So, you wait your turn. You lobby. You ask, and you put your numbers up there, and you start asking from the beginning. And you may not get it next year, but you can get it the next year or the following.”
