Last year funds were approved for road paving by the council and those funds were not spent. The city is also 3 years behind in spending road paving money allocated by the county for observer highway. Patching is only a short term solution. The long term solution is monitoring the work of contractors so that they do good work and repaving before the situation becomes hazardous. The city may patch pot holes if you put in a request via their 311 system. Give it a shot.