Don't overturn Des Plaines term limits
Our spendthrift leaders in Des Plaines have done enough damage with TIF programs, high taxes, ignoring what we taxpayers vote on and scandals involving some prominent city officials.
When will these politicians finally listen to our votes?
We voted "NO" for the library, did they listen? NO.
They are trying to ignore our negative vote on building a fire station west of the present one on Oakton Street. They have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on three studies for the best site. The final report advised not to build a station on the site they picked. Now they will finally build the north side station on Central Road land purchased many years ago.
They want to build a new police station and won't take advice to add on to the present station in order to save money. Building onto the present station to the west would give the police a covered parking area. I suppose it is too much to ask them to save money.
They are making a mockery out of our voting system by refusing to answer questions concerning the settlement paid out for that sexual harassment case involving former alderman Becker.
We voted just 10 short years ago to put term limits into law and now that it is time for these scoundrels to get out of office they want to overturn our voice once again.
Listen, Mr. Mayor we don't want you in for another term. Can't you understand that?
You are not going to win on reversing the term limits. We taxpayers will fight to the end.
Eight years is enough time for any politician. Arredia thinks ... he can build Des Plaines into something it isn't and never will be. Mr. Mayor, Des Plaines is not Schaumburg or Park Ridge. This is a poor, hard-working class of people and we don't want things that we can't afford or keep up, like the River Walk. It is just another place for crime and fear. Who wants to walk along that river and get attacked?
We need our streets fixed and our taxes lowered, not a River Walk.
Elaine Kalcsics
Des Plaines