“It’s either going to get moving, or the roads committee will be disbanded,” said committee member Rick Judge. “Or should be.”

The meeting comes at a moment of mounting frustration for some Bayard Avenue residents. Mark Allen, a resident of Cajun Cove condominiums, sent an email to committee members and commissioners after the road again flooded Thursday, Oct. 29.

“This situation has gone on for far too long,” Allen wrote. “I am particularly angry with those that have known about this for many years, were in a position to do something about it, and have done nothing!”

Judge said he acknowledges and sympathizes with Allen’s anger.

“There’s an awful lot of letters and questions and unhappy people,” he said.

Duffield Associates, an engineering firm with offices in Georgetown, has been awaiting direction from the committee since August, when the company presented a preliminary flooding study.

Judge said he predicts Duffield will be asked to survey the land and limit the project to the three blocks between Saulsbury and Bellevue streets.

Mayor Rick Solloway appointed himself to the roads committee during a Monday, Oct. 26 town council meeting. He said he will co-chair the committee with current Chairman Peter Lucas. During the meeting, Commissioner Marc Appelbaum said the town is quickly approaching a point of liability for hardship suffered by Bayard residents.

“I am anxiously waiting to see how the mayor’s involvement will move the project along,” Appelbaum later said.

He said the Bayard project is on the agenda for the council’s Saturday, Nov. 14 meeting, and he hopes the committee has something to report.

“I believe the commissioners are going to need to get more directly involved in the process,” he said.

The committee will meet at 6 p.m. at the Lifesaving Station on Dagsworthy Avenue. Judge said he will fly from Daytona Beach, Fla., to attend the meeting.

“If we don’t perform on Friday, at the very least we’re going to have a lot of upset people,” Judge said.