3 more chances to sell all your property

The Council has decided to allow the residents three more garage sales per year. Big deal, when people are struggling to put food on the table, make their mortgage payments, and gas up their car! Do they seriously think that 3 extra yard sales will make up for the MILLIONS in additional debt City officials have burdened the residents with? Not to mention the increased taxes that are coming next year to pay for their legacies on the weary and hurting backs of the residents! The City Manager acknowledges that residents are having a hard time paying their light bills, putting food on the table, and filling up their cars so they can go to work. Instead of some tax relief we get 3 more garage sales? Incredible! Let them eat cake! Incredibly and totally insensitive and out of touch with the lives of the average residents. No clue, or apparent awareness that we are in a recession and people are losing their jobs and their homes,and little concern.

out of touch with everyday reality

The Council apparently has no clue and/or doesnt care about the suffering and personal hardships of the residents. Which Queen was it, when told the people had no bread to eat, responded,"Let them eat cake!"? She was completely out of touch with the hard times of her people and our City officials are just as oblivious and unconcerned as she was. We need tax relief! not tax increases! If we had the over 600k that has been wasted on the CC and bathroom projects we would be in a MUCH better position financially. It has disappeared, tho, and City officials will simply raise our taxes to cover those disasters. Have they NO shame? common sense? financial responsibility? The 200k annual payments to pay for the new gym project HAVE to come from somewhere. If we take it from the sales tax, that money is already allocated for other city expenses, so they will need a source of NEW income, and that will be our increased taxes. We get hosed AGAIN. An already tough economic environment is made almost impossible by their lack of common sense and concern for the people.