Thank you, Gary Greene, for your thoughtful and well-written My Turn column in The Recorder addressing the out of control spending by our mayor and town council.
I gladly voted for and am willing to pick up the tab for the new high school. I believe in investing in education and I have no issue helping to pay for the new faculties. However, as a woman who is quickly approaching retirement age, I cannot afford to pay for a new library, when ours is beautiful and more an adequate. I can not afford to help finance a new fire station/police/ambulance dispatch /expanded parking in order to build the new library in its current location. I can not afford a new senior/youth/community center as nice as it would be for everyone involved. I cannot afford to move our public schools’ administration offices to the middle school, only to be, most likely, moved to another new location in the very near future.
Basically, my wife and I are being priced out of the town and community we love and the home we had wished to retire in. Mayor Martin has been on a spending spree with property owners’ money since his tenure. Some of it has been necessary, much of it not. Unless the mayor can find a way to lock into place people’s property taxes, he is going to spend Greenfield’s citizenry right out of town. Please write to Mayor Martin and let him know we are getting to the point of not being able to afford his penchant for spending.
CATHY GOUCH
Greenfield