Dear editor:
To the citizens of Brandon Township: I am sure all of you are aware of the exorbitant prices the citizens of Groveland Township are being asked to pay for using the Brandon Township Community Park ( ‘Higher recreation fees send parents to other townships,? The Citizen, April 12, page 1). If the powers that be could have given this a little more thought, maybe this would have worked out for everyone, maybe all of the neighborhood communities could have enjoyed the park.
Mr. Lapp and Mr. Waybrant, there’s nothing like a well-researched and well thought-out plan when spending our money. Apparently you did neither. I guess you forgot to calculate the cost of electric bills, light bulbs, trash pick up etc. Instead, it looks like you jumped into this blindfolded. So, you are not going to be able to collect $27,000 from Groveland Township, which they were first told would cost $15,000, but you did approve, at the Brandon Township meeting April 10, $36,000 a year for park maintenance. I am almost afraid to ask where that money is coming from.
Mr. Lapp, you have not only alienated our neighbors in Groveland Township, but some of our Brandon citizens also. I think we should give ‘The Brandon Township Community Park? a new name, how about, ‘The Ron Lapp Money Trap Park.? Oh, Mr. Lapp, Mr, Waybrant, did either of you make a $3,500 donation to the new park like you were asking the rest of us to do?
And by the way, where are all the new retail stores along M-15? You know, the ones that we were told about in the paper last fall? I don’t see much building going on, only bare land and ‘for sale? signs up and down the road. Sometimes, Mr. Lapp, less is more, we do not need endless strip malls, gas stations, and banks lining our community streets.
D. Okolovitch
Brandon Township