Time to go out with the old leadership in Pickerington
Saturday, May 24, 2003
The recall movement under way in Pickerington is overdue. The one they call Mayor Lou Postage was part of Mayor Lee Gray?’s clique in the ?’90s, which helped stop turning part of Rt. 256 into an industrial park. This area is close to I-70 and would have created good jobs and a good tax base for the schools.
All Postage has to show for his 12 years are gas stations and hamburger joints, no good tax base for our schools. I guess we now will have to call his new clique the Lou Postage Special.
Let the record speak for itself: City Manager Joyce Bushman, attorney Bob Mapes and the Lou Postage Special have done everything in their power to try to turn off the people?’s right to speak and their right to petition for change. The Lou Postage Special has let Bushman and Mapes use taxpayer money to try to shut the public up.
We just fought a war so people can have a say in their government. Things should be no different here. In 2000, as a new law was coming into effect giving townships more say in annexing land, Bushman stated in public that she had annexed 800 acres into Pickerington for the home-builders before the new law went into effect, and she patted herself on the back for it.
Now look at what we have in the Pickerington School District. A bunch of ''carpetbaggers?’?’ who will build about 3,000 homes and apartments to overflow our schools. How many kids could this be? At least two per home, or about 6,000 in a short time. Where do people think the millions needed to build and operate new schools will come from? What about cost of water, sewage and other city services? The local government has cut deals with builders so they can make their money. City and school district residents will have to foot the bill for this mess.
Concerned Pickerington residents should sign petitions being circulated that would recall current leaders. Pickerington voters need to elect people who will support the will of the people; only in this way will building be controlled. Those voted in should fire Bushman.
United, the residents of the Pickerington school district can put the brakes on builders, and keep them from overloading our school system every year or two.
BOB SMALLWOOD
Canal Winchester
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Copyright ?© 2003, The Columbus Dispatch
By I agree !!!
Saturday, May 24, 2003
The recall movement under way in Pickerington is overdue. The one they call Mayor Lou Postage was part of Mayor Lee Gray?’s clique in the ?’90s, which helped stop turning part of Rt. 256 into an industrial park. This area is close to I-70 and would have created good jobs and a good tax base for the schools.
All Postage has to show for his 12 years are gas stations and hamburger joints, no good tax base for our schools. I guess we now will have to call his new clique the Lou Postage Special.
Let the record speak for itself: City Manager Joyce Bushman, attorney Bob Mapes and the Lou Postage Special have done everything in their power to try to turn off the people?’s right to speak and their right to petition for change. The Lou Postage Special has let Bushman and Mapes use taxpayer money to try to shut the public up.
We just fought a war so people can have a say in their government. Things should be no different here. In 2000, as a new law was coming into effect giving townships more say in annexing land, Bushman stated in public that she had annexed 800 acres into Pickerington for the home-builders before the new law went into effect, and she patted herself on the back for it.
Now look at what we have in the Pickerington School District. A bunch of ''carpetbaggers?’?’ who will build about 3,000 homes and apartments to overflow our schools. How many kids could this be? At least two per home, or about 6,000 in a short time. Where do people think the millions needed to build and operate new schools will come from? What about cost of water, sewage and other city services? The local government has cut deals with builders so they can make their money. City and school district residents will have to foot the bill for this mess.
Concerned Pickerington residents should sign petitions being circulated that would recall current leaders. Pickerington voters need to elect people who will support the will of the people; only in this way will building be controlled. Those voted in should fire Bushman.
United, the residents of the Pickerington school district can put the brakes on builders, and keep them from overloading our school system every year or two.
BOB SMALLWOOD
Canal Winchester
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Copyright ?© 2003, The Columbus Dispatch
By I agree !!!
