Opinion

According to ABC and several other networks, people in Flint, Mich., are charged $864 a year for water-sewer usage. This is double the national average. Last year, Oswego city charged a majority of its residents $888.

There has been some up-roar over my suggestion that it may be time to dissolve the city we all grew up in and love. Here are some of the numbers and facts and opinion.

I’m sure most of you have read or heard on the street about my thoughts about dissolving the city we all love. The choice to do this will not be up to me or to six elected officials at city hall.

I’m sure most of you that read my letters and understand them will remember my letter entitled: New Year but the same old Games. In that letter the majority caucus called a quarterback sneak appointing an interim director of central services giving that person a $5,000 raise.

First to go under the microscope is Onondaga County. Just south of us. Let’s look at the numbers for Onondaga County:

Conflict of Interest: A situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity. One must ask if that is the case in the treasurer’s office. We have a situation where an elected official is the head of a department that reports to the County Legislature.

A snowball gets bigger and bigger the more you roll it around in the snow. The county’s snowball started back when a county treasurer retired and appointed a successor. Now that in itself wouldn’t have been a problem, but the fact that the appointee may or may not have a high school diploma is questionable.

So by now most of you have heard that the new U-Haul that is being developed (in the old Nestle Building 30) was heavily vandalized last evening and has suffered damage. Between this, and other incidents harmful to the quality of life of the community that appear to be on the uptick, it is time something more was done.

It is 2016 on the calendar but in the Oswego County Legislative chambers you would think it was still 2015. The games that were being played in 2015 are now in OT. This is the second OT and almost ready to go into Sudden Death. In this case, it was a promotion with a raise. (Sounds a little like Onondaga County).