HomeMy WebLinkAbout022525 email - RE_ Swimming poolALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them.
Dear Commissioner Heather,
If ever there was a fine example as to why the county/city should Not pursue building and maintaining a swimming pool, diverting funds, and handing out moneys (our moneys) to NGO's like
the time the BOCC gave a Port Townsend church (our) money, and almost did it twice can be found in all of the words of Monte Reinders as he addressed to the Board of County Commissioners
meeting on Monday, and published in the Peninsula Daily News today, Tuesday.
I'm sorry to see just how out of touch the BOCC, and the city's elected officials are as far as what the working class is facing in this county!
Monte hit the nail on the head when he talked about how difficult it is to hire new employees. In our Marine Trades community those needing additional help cannot sign up new hires,
and the reasons are all the same. Too expensive to live here!
How you all cannot see the financial burden the working class, and the retirees who live on little more than social security face in this county is beyond me.
We are a rural county with very little of an industrial/commercial tax base so a large portion lands on the backs of the citizens.
Please, STOP. Moneys (our money) need to be spent on infrastructure, and public safety first and foremost. All else should be far second place.
Please heed the words of our Public Works Director Monte Reinder... “You can dream about having a Ferrari and how awesome it would be and how fast you can drive with that,” Reinders
said. “When your budget is a Geo Metro, don’t drive the Geo Metro like a Ferrari because the wheels are just going to fall off and it won’t get you anywhere.”
Necessities first!
Mike Galmukoff
132 Nip Lee Rd
Chimacum, WA 98325