Community Corner
Letter To the Editor: To Bond or Not To Bond, That's the Unanswered Question
A Roswell resident questions the Roswell City Council's seeming lack of transparency.
Dear Editor,
I wonder if transparency lives in the Roswell Council chamber. Are they going to try to put a new bond issue on the November ballot? According to reports in a local newspaper, one councilman said yes just a couple of weeks ago.
Then, shortly after a new fiscal conservative announced his candidacy for a seat on the council, other council members apparently jumped ship announcing, “No, a new bond is off the table.”
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Which is it, a bond or not?
It won’t be a surprise if we have to face it – just take a hard look at Roswell’s financial picture. You’ll see a lot of holes. Where is our money---do we have a surplus? Over the past four years, the city’s revenue hasn’t come close to its expenditures and that’s a fact.
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I’ve seen enough eleventh-hour, behind-closed-doors stuff in the past few weeks that I’m glad the newcomer is entering the race. [He's] already bringing vibrancy, and apparently for our present council, a moment of pause.
Now isn’t the time to relax.
George Lemmond - Roswell
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