SS MAYFLOAT
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The town I live near by has a resivoir for their drinking water. It is about a 1,000 acres of water. Boating and fishing is allowed. Unlimited horsepower is permitted, but however there is a 6 mph speed limit. It is one of Gonfishn's gator lakes that he visits and hunts his gators at.<br /><br />The city has 3 or 4 picinic areas on the south side. Even though they are not the best kept, but through the years they have done pretty good on making things accessible for the handicap and elderly. These areas were widely used by the locals unitl June of this year. We had a bad storm that blew down about 500 trees. So the city mayor gave the order to close the park/picinic areas. Of course they are still closed and have been since the storm in June.<br /><br />Here is what she has done to get the parks ready for next year. Instead of paying or letting local people go in and clear out the fallen trees, she puts out bids for someone to pay the city to clean them up. The mayor is just now getting a company to come in and clean up the park.<br /><br />Meanwhile she was on the local AM radio and alot of people kept asking her about the conditions of the parks at the resivior. All of them seemed to be PO'd over her plan of getting paid for the clean up instead of letting the local people clean it up for the firewood. If she had allowed locals to clean it up, the park could have reopened by the end of June letting people utilize the park for the rest of the season. Her explination to this was a liability issue. However local attorneys said waivers could have been drawn up for those that would have cleaned up the park eliminating the city from liability.<br /><br />Most citizens feel that the mayors plan for a sales tax increase failed during the last attempt at the ballots. Since then she has snubbed her nose at lots of things that benefited recreation around the city. Even the big Freedom Festival for the 4th of July was cancelled. This was something that had been done for the citizens for over the past 50 years! Even the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds have performed at the Freedom Fest in the past. So this was a very big event to be cancelled. Strange part is, very little funding was used for this event from the cities budget. Mostly labor from the police and fire dept. Fireworks and other attractions were always covered by local comapany donations.<br /><br />So now knowing that she is mad because her tax increase failed, she is making it a point to cut out the recreational desires of the community. <br /><br />Even the swimming pools were effected, but McDonalds and other local business raised enough money from the public to open and maintain the swimming pools for the year.<br /><br />This is her last term. She has been mayor for the last 12 years and has done a superb job until this last term. Lots of people feel that she has turned her back on the city an has refuesed to compromise on how to do things for the city without the need of city money. Nothing at this point has been revealed on how much money this company is paying to take the timber. Most residents don't care, they just wanted to enjoy the picinic areas of the resivior.<br /><br />I vote that she is a stupid mayor by not recognizing the needs of the community.
next time if she is not popular you can replace the mayor. sometimes in politics to much tenure is a bad thing. goes back to what I say about congress and senate. two terms max and sit out for 4 years minimum with no way in hades to ever ever draw a retirement from the position.
