We are in the middle of some hard times, personally and community wise, and hard times can bring out the best or the worst in people. When you’re stuck and there’s no clear way out, you can either work together or step on whoever gets in your way.
Pointing fingers is natural, that’s a child’s gut instinct, and it’s common with people of little or no experience in dealing with the public. Some people think mistakes are a sign of weakness, usually people who need things to be black or white and don’t understand what lies between.
Some time ago there was an assault on the Recreation Department suggesting they had a hidden slush fund, and if there was a secret stash of money it could be used to offset taxes. This is what was done to the money we put away from the sale of the Hospital, over $2.25 million dollars. To develop the River Side Park we had to bond a lot of money because the wrongful use of that $2.25 million. We let ourselves be misled and paid for the park twice.
The biggest misuse of money is the recent re-evaluation of the properties in our town. The cost of the re-evaluation? Over $1,000,000 dollars. This could have and should have been done in house by our own Tax Assessor. Sure there would have been some hiring to support the process but at a cost to the town of less than $100,000. That’s a savings that could have spared the school tax deferment and much, much more. This is some of the best planning from a group that “Puts Tax Payers First”, and is after all why we voted these folks into office, right?
As I said hard times bring out the best and worst in people, but after eight years of the worst we deserve a change from these poor decision makers.
VOTE POINT PLEASANT 2010, SCHROEDER, GOSS, & RUSK!
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