Letter to the Editor, plus

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The following letter was submitted to the journal yesterday. They strike me as a friend of the status quo, and I'm not. Cortez is sinking.

Letter. 

Honest question: 

Did the people of Cortez decide that the rec center, the ball fields, the park and other amenities are expendable? That City Hall is doing a great job while these are going deeper and deeper into disrepair, with no end in sight? That they are outside of the purview of City hall?

That the sole measure of City Hall is that they don't go into the red?

Because the state of Cortez address in the council chamber on March 10th suggests just that.

In that same address it was stated that all of us have to live within our means. [My credit rating is 770 something. It lowered recently when a loan company at my direction contacted a credit agency. I need a $9,000 loan because my pipes are more than 30 years old and they're crumbling.

Point being, I live within my means.] 

Earlier in my life I decided I needed more means. I decided not to live within just what I had, but to get more. I worked hard for it and got it.

City Hall says they believe that those are incompatible goals, that either you live within your means, or you aggressively go for more means, but they say you can't do both. 

And yet everyone in City Hall of top or middle management has always pursued both. Obviously. Successfully. And they still do.

This doesn't make any sense. Explain it to me like I'm a two-year-old. I want to City Hall that fights to preserve everything we have, or to tell it to us straight that they won't, and why.

Also:

This was just sent to current and past mayors, current city council, City Council on the ballot, and Senior City Hall staff.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/567622239426807/permalink/916010964587931/?mibextid=Nif5oz






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