Condition of streets raises questions
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Editor,
I want to thank the City of Polson. I have been meaning to replace my old, slightly worn tires, but have been a member in good standing of the procrastination society, at least until I hit one of the city’s many strategically placed potholes from hell and split one of my fine Italian racing tires (you know, a Baldini) wide open.
I know that business has been slow and the city fathers have been burning the midnight oil brainstorming solutions, but creating potholes to shore up the tire shops in town is a bit sneaky. Spending city money (well actually, using the city credit card) to build bike paths and a “bridge under a bridge” – rather than maintaining the roads that already exist and teaching people to use the crosswalk and traffic light (that now does a cute countdown) – is not what I would call fiscal sanity. Mimicking the federal government with unsustainable debt, while ignoring primary municipal maintenance, is downright rude to the citizens and taxpayers of Polson.
How do you think the unsuspecting tourists are going to feel spending an hour or two having new tires installed on their vehicles? I’ll bet they’ll be pleased as punch to know that you have the finest tire shops in the Pacific Northwest, and some really snazzy bike trails to boot.
Spending money you don’t have while your infrastructure slowly rots should make just about everyone in Polson stand just a little bit taller and feel a little more pride in their depreciating community. Folks, prioritize and budgeting works for me — why can’t it work for the City of Polson? Focus, people; focus. Supporting “pie-in-the-sky” projects when you have real issues to solve is not a good governing practice.
Michael Gale
Ronan
