Council needs more like Joe Mauro to get the city on track

Editor: It floors me that the Lethbridge City Council is proceeding with a budget that has us spending hundreds of millions of taxpayers money, after being told that we want our taxes to decrease and unnecessary spending cut out.

For decades, the only person who seems to listen to a large group of us, who have consistently asked for less spending, is Joe Mauro.

Unfortunately, he was disgusted enough to walk away from the committee meeting where the budget was being discussed and I am fearful he will walk away from council altogether, where he is the only representative for somany of us.

We need an entire council made up of Joe Mauro’s to get any of the reforms and cuts needed to put this City back on track again.

If anyone took the CIP survey, it was full of unneeded and frivolous wants. We have a Yates Memorial Centre that we just sunk $7 million into restoring, that is barely used and yet people who did this survey want a new community arts centre!

I don’t think that we should get another thing built or funded that isn’t core infrastructure until our economy gets back on track and our taxes decrease.

I don’t have to sit in City Hall and hear the councilors’ vote; the fact that Joe Mauro left the committee, is everything I need to hear.

That Council supported a budget that still caters to wants, when our entire economy is in ruins leaves me flabbergasted.

We need a new council fast as this budget is unsustainable.

Brandt Skriver

Lethbridge