Many of our neighbors agree with Charles Vascellaro’s thinking that a town property tax would be a bad idea because it would give the council a false sense of financial invincibility.
Hopefully, the lagoon proposal’s demise was a wake-up call for the council, proving that angry taxpayers can organize very quickly, preventing any more financial hemorrhaging.
If a “public safety service fee” is a more enlightened way of raising the needed funds for our police, fire department, paramedics, etc., that would be a more controlled method of holding the council fiscally responsible. We are not their private bank with unlimited funds, and they have already proven to be reckless with our money.
School taxes have just increased, and the water company now wants an increase. Where will this end?
Taxpayers need to vote into office a tight-wad, a miser, a Scrooge, an individual who will put this town back into the black, not a charlatan or an opportunist who thinks we are fools just because we are quiet. I have hundreds of signatures on the no lagoon list, and many on the recall lists, which can be easily transferred over to the no property tax list. Voters have very strong opinions when it comes to their wallets.
Our council has to tighten the money belt. We did not need to spend several thousand dollars for a trail; $38,800 for a useless feasibility study for a lagoon nobody wants. (Incidentally, the Navajo Nation just voted down a controversial water project proposed by a developer at the Grand Canyon.)
No town property tax! Yes, on a public safety service fee, because you have already proven untrustworthy with our money.
