To the editor:
A group of dissenters have sprouted up in (mostly) our new subdivisions. And they don’t like it here. They don’t like the amount of property taxes they pay and they don’t like the way the council saves and/or spends those tax dollars. They are miserable ? and proof is that this group will again file a recall motion for four of our five Council members, which will cost all the residents.
It will cost us money, of course. But it will also cost us our quiet, harmonious village unity. Neighbors will, again, be divided over the recall issue.
What dissenter leaders really want, though, is to actually divide the village. And I do mean literally divide it. They would like several areas (including where they live, and my house too) to be ‘reclaimed? by Atlas Township, thus seceding from the village.
I don’t want to secede from the village. I like the village ? that’s why I moved here. I, generally, like the way our council conducts business, and am satisfied with the services the village provides, and happy with the office staff.
I don’t think the village council, or even obscenely high property taxes, has anything to do with the approximately 30 foreclosures in the area. Didn’t the council just lower taxes? Thirty foreclosures, yet I still see new construction. I thought foreclosure is a bank term for not paying the mortgage payment. So, if a homeowner is ‘in foreclosure,? then that’s not because property taxes are too high, but that the mortgage payment can’t be met.
Times are tough in Michigan. Not only does the state have one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, but we also have the highest unemployment rate. State income taxes were just raised, and new sales taxes imposed on many services.
I’m appealing to you, Mr. Tankersley. Please stop disrupting the village. Now is not the time to frivolously waste taxpayer money by recalling the council.
Sue Crise
Goodrich