Workers took advantage of light snow

Here it is a Saturday morning, the sun is just rising and a township snowplow is going down the street. Not an uncommon occurrence in the winter, but, really, for a quarter inch of snow?

The main arteries are clear, and only the off-the-beat unincorporated subdivisions have a slight snow cover on a day when it is expected to climb to the mid 30s. What is that all about?

Well it has been a warm winter and we have not had a lot of snow. Township highway employees are not getting the overtime they have had in the past, so instead of the commissioners saying that is the gamble you take being an employee of the highway department.

They deploy their teams to rack up unnecessary overtime on the back of taxpayers on a day when there is no need to have plows on the back roads. It is time for taxpayers to engage and start asking the hard questions.

This is just one example of the waste I see on a day-to-day basis in local government while my property tax bill rises every single year. In this case instead of being a public servant, the highway commissioners are serving their employees with a nice dose of unnecessary overtime pay. Don Henderson

Ingleside