City of Redmond needs fiscal responsibility; Reporter needs more viewpoints | Redmond Letters

CITY BUDGET Survey for responsible government? According to a recent letter in the Redmond Reporter, the city of Redmond plans to spend $250,000 of other people’s, that is, taxpayers’, money for a survey on responsible government. If the city’s politicians, some of whom have been in office since the beginning of time, do not know what responsible government is, and if they do not have the ability to communicate that to the permanent bureaucracy, they should, perhaps, try another line of work.

November 20, 2008 4:19 pm

CITY BUDGET

Survey for responsible government?

According to a recent letter in the Redmond Reporter, the city of Redmond plans to spend $250,000 of other people’s, that is, taxpayers’, money for a survey on responsible government.

If the city’s politicians, some of whom have been in office since the beginning of time, do not know what responsible government is, and if they do not have the ability to communicate that to the permanent bureaucracy, they should, perhaps, try another line of work.

Last year, the city put forward and persuaded voters to support a substantial property tax increase under the guise of public safety. That tax increase, marketed and sold as support for police and fire, has apparently freed up money in the general fund for non-essential, if not to say, frivolous projects.

To quote Lily Tomlin: “No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.”

Richard L. Grubb

Redmond

OPINION PAGE

Time to add another view

Letters in the Nov. 19 issue say what your readers know: you are a partisan paper with almost exclusively Republican talking points.

While you may consider this a job well done, I encourage you to add the view of at least one other political party.

You choose.

This would involve more of us in Redmond and in my opinion, better serve our city.

J. Douglas D’Addio

Redmond