To the editor:
After reading again another recall for the village, I have to ask why? (‘Goodrich council faces recall again,? The Citizen, page 1, Oct. 6)
In this day and age they lowered the taxes 30 percent and have kept it. We have a president who has put us in debt and my grandchildren can’t even pay the bill. I don’t live in the village, but I wish I did just to slam the door in the faces of the ones who go for signatures for a recall. The good old boys are doing a fine job, and I think that when someone is after a recall I would investigate him.
I also think that the raises that were given to the ones who work in the village was a plus. After all, the GM contract gave them approximately a $13,000 raise, and with gas prices, heat, insurance etc. they have bills too. Do you expect them to do a good job, and keep working without acknowledgment? When you go to work day in and day out, and prices of everything go up, a raise makes your day.
A raise helps keep the same employees, and when they do a good job you want to keep them. When you hire new employees, there is training, and sometimes mishaps. The ones who are upset about raises, the township hands out raises, and I don’t see them going after them. I was at a meeting in the village where people complained about not being able to sell their homes. I will ask you who would want to buy your homes when you spend more money on recall and elections than anyone around you? It seems you should spend your money on better things.
I could understand if your taxes went up 30 percent, but to go down? My brother is Ralph Morey, Pete to the ones that know him, who is a diesel mechanic, fix your road grader and more. Just one of the road graders he saved the village over $4,000, and let’s see, elections are $3,000. He gets the village discounts on the parts, and does his labor for 50 to 75 percent less than what you can get it done for. Why, because like me, he grew up in a small town and cares about it. If the recall happens, pay the price of another mechanic, and then your taxes will go up. What were your taxes ten years ago, and then now? I grew up in this small town, and if the one who started this recall again is after dissolving the village, I ask again why? Do you think the county is going to rush in and plow the sidewalks? Sometimes, in the spring, I can’t even get out of my driveway because the road disappears. So I ask you all, if the judge OKs the recall, when they knock on your door, laugh at them and say if they don’t like it here, move out because the only thing they are doing is keeping houses up for sale in the Village of Goodrich and making you all look very petty.
I live in Atlas Township, across the road from me is the village, and if you don’t like it here, move, because this is a great place to grow up, raise your children, and in this day and age, can’t we all just get along?

Becky Cummings
Atlas Township