Joe

Ocean Pines receives a sum from Worcester County every year for road improvments and the like. you may want to confirm, but I believe that the utilities make temporary cold patch repairs and then the Association goes back with a contractor and makes the long term hot patch repairs.  Indirectly the County does pay for the repairs that you see Association crews complete.

Why do you see association crews? Because the cold patch repairs often fail before the hot patch repairs are completed.  It has been next to impossiable to get the utilities back to make further repairs.  The utilities really don't give a hoot about the Association because the Association because the Associaion is powerless to stop their activity in the Pines, without a court challange.