LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Posted on 22 August 2013 by LeslieM

Citizens, take an interest in your city

Dear Editor:

I sit in the audience during many Deerfield Beach city commission meetings listening to our leaders tell us what a wonderful job they’re doing, and saying our city is in great shape.

Transparency in our local government just isn’t there, folks. They don’t answer letters promptly, forget to return phone calls, or just plain ignore anyone who has a problem or something negative to say about operations.

At meetings, they talk down to citizens making a complaint or they have an inappropriate remark about the person’s appearance, spelling or discredit their background any way they can.

Those actions alone discourage many of our voters from attending city meetings or volunteering … folks don’t want to feel public scorn or reprimanding from our commission.

The only time we seem to get a “full house” at one of our meetings is when the public has a major complaint about how things are being run in our city government.

Things like the Utility Tax passed without a public vote, or the transfer of our Deerfield Beach Fire-Rescue Dept. to Broward County, leaving our firefighters with a pension program second to none …It will probably bankrupt this city in a few years if not corrected immediately in this current budget.

The rapid addition of upper management personnel, BIG salaries, secretaries and expenses, while at the same time “outsourcing” almost half our budget just doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

Citizens of Deerfield Beach, rise up, accept the challenge to take back our city government now, or forever pay the price for your lack of involvement!

Trust me, you’ll be glad you did, and you’ll be many dollars ahead.

Fred Foreman

Deerfield Beach

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