To the editor:
The local city council appears to be muddled, mired in a pool of expensive projects which, under the mismanagement of Jim Bennett, isn‘t, too, being well served or timed by the council.
How on Earth did the council believe it could in this small community attend to a $7-$9 million rec. center deal with money it didn’t have on hand and, at the same time, move city hall to another location with dollars which weren’t available either? Besides, the vast majority of the local taxpayers I’ve talked to feel that the present site of city hall is just fine where it sits; little need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to move. Spend a few bucks to bring the hall up to code.
I suggest that the council listen to its own sense of reason and back off the sale of city hall and give its full attention to a far more important project like a pool for our kids. Hope the city manager doesn’t harbor the idea that our city is paved with milk and honey. If so, we are doomed for higher and higher taxes without any upper limits. You know what they say about “too many irons in the fire”?
Remember that a city manager is hired to “conduct the orchestra, not write the music”.
Dick Graves
Presque Isle
