Rick Cebulak, semi-retired from a security contractor, is worried about the hit he'd have to take with higher road fees or taxes atop $270 a year two recent local bond issues will add to his property taxes.

"All I know is it's going to cost me more . . . (and) I just got clobbered," Cebulak said.

Brighton Mayor Jim Muzzin said "the roads need the money, without a doubt," but as an executive with a local fuel distributor a gas tax hike wouldn't be "my most-favorite way to do it." He would be OK with an alternative  such as higher vehicle registration fees.