The Editor:
I am writing this letter and am directing it at the current city council and especially at our MLA Doreen Eagles.
It is absolutely unbelievable that we have let our roads get to the condition that they are in now. Everyone will agree that this is pothole season and there is really nothing we can do until work can be properly carried out.
But really, how many years are we going to have to wait until a concrete plan is put into place to begin the repairs and to help save our vehicles from being shaken apart.
I attended an open house meeting with the former city council in the spring of 2012 and made this suggestion: during the next civic election, I suggested that a plebiscite be added asking the taxpayers of Estevan to vote on a mill rate increase and that the money received from that mill rate increase be used strictly for road repair.
I left that meeting with the understanding that that council would give it considerable thought. Fast forward a year and a half later, and during the civic election, no plebiscite was presented. I guess the former council had no intentions of fixing the roads.
City council is now in budget deliberations and as a taxpayer of Estevan and a person who is sick and tired of driving on these streets, you had better start coming up with a plan to start repairing the roads. We can't let this go on any longer.
This next part is directed at Doreen Eagles. As our MLA, is it not your job to stand up for the people of your constituency? The southeast is falling apart and all we see you do is cut ribbons or eat cake. Get in the face of the highways minister every day if you have to and get some funding for your constituency. Secure funding this year for the road repairs on 13th Avenue, not next year.
That road can't wait another year. If we could get it fixed this year, maybe we could have a ribbon for you to cut at the one end and a piece of cake to eat at the other end. I am so sick and tired of all the excuses for not doing the work. Let's get it done.
Greg Curtis,
Estevan
