Mayor contributing to financial woes

An open letter to Prospect Heights Mayor Dolly Vole: Could you please tell us how long you will continue to blame previous administrations for the problems our city is currently facing?

You sound very much like that guy in our White House today who is using the same tack. Instead of blaming others, tell us what exactly was done wrong and how you plan to correct the problem.

Which council are you referring to and just exactly what did they do to create the problems we currently face? After all, you ran for office making some rather large promises.

Believe it or not, the passage of the Home Rule referendum, which you and the Dalassandros and the Arlington Heights reality group were against and lobbied so well with gross distortions of the truth, caused its defeat.

Its passage would have given our city the needed revenues to bring us from the bottom of the pit, where we are today. We would be in a position to give our residents some of what they expected and they deserve.

Saying "future councils can or will do this or that to raise our taxes" is foolish. Council members are resident taxpayers and they do not want their taxes raised either.

We have lost the opportunity to have the USA Headquarters of Sarpino's Pizza, a company with superior franchise possibilities as a new business in our city.

Why, because as Alderman Dalessandro said, "a resident complained?"

Give us a break; there are 16,000-plus residents in our city so if one resident doesn't like it a potential business is lost.

There was a plan put before you to help save the Meijer's at the Dominick's site. You completely ignored the opportunities I laid before you and we now lost the opportunity to get another gem like them.

The losses are certainly your fault - the potential of 200 jobs, permit and license fees not to mention tax revenues.

I am disgusted but not finished.

Alderman John Styler

Prospect Heights