Dear Editor:
RE: Watters reflects on first year in office for all-new mayor, council, Jan. 4.
In Mayor Shawn Watters’ year-end report, he seems to be losing sleep for the wrong reasons.
First of all, who runs the show over at 1 MacDonald Square, the staff on the Sunshine List or the mayor and council the taxpayers duly elected?
Watters didn’t lose any sleep about giving himself and council a pay raise. He didn’t lose any sleep about a 7.38% tax for families struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their head (the largest tax increase in the township’s history and the largest of any municipality).
He didn’t lose any sleep about raising the cost of water and sewage. But he is losing sleep about urban boundaries and a battery storage operation.
It’s time for you and your council to get down to doing some serious work for the average working guy who put you into the job to do some work for them and help their struggle.
Start saying “no” to the whiners who want everything. Tell them “we can’t afford it.”
This is not Toronto.
J. Alexander,
Fergus