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Save Our City
Thursday,
August 27, 2009
Once upon a time we had great city that thrived. Businesses & people making money, beautiful streets and homes,neighbors helping neighbors, The American dream at its best.
What Happened To Our City ? Now empty stores and lots, foreclosed homes, neighbors afraid to come out and say anything to anyone.
The city commission has just taken to much on, done to little to help its residents & businesses. It does what is best for them not whats best for the city.
OK, times are tough out there, I know this just like everyone else does. But the city has to do something to bring this city back. They dont do anything to bring people and businesses here, NOTHING.
Oh, you have a couple of carnivals & a green market with only a few dates for them to do business. Big Deal. You deny companies that want to do business and are reputable and let the bad ones do business here instead.
Case and point, You denied a new & used book store to come here here but approve a store that sells expired or close to it food, Payless Foods. HUH ???
You deny businesses like Sonic and Hooters because they dont fit your vision for the city, The Margate City Center that will do nothing for anyone except make the city commissioners resumes look better.
This city needs new blood, stop squashing the free enterprise system because it doesn't help you. It's not about you, it is about the residents of this city, the ones who pay taxes here and actually call Margate home.
Maybe if we had commissioners who actually lived here in Margate this city would be in better shape. Maybe then we wouldn't have 44 acres of undeveloped land, A silly clock tower, lower taxes & happy residents.
Look at how nice the surrounding cities are doing compared to us, OK they may not be perfect but at least they dont have a great lawn in the heart of the city on a major roadway.
Maybe the city commissioners should take a long hard look around and wake up and smell the coffee. Utilize what you do have, make it easier for businesses to do business, help the residents who live in our great city unlike you commissioners.
Need Ideas, try this. Use the former Swap Shop site for a REAL Green Market, one that is open 7 days a week. Hold Concerts &/or Movie night on the weekends. With concession stands by local businesses and others for a small fee.
Dont know where to get the money for this, cut the administrative costs and the over inflated payrolls. Leave the Police and Fire/ Rescue alone they should always be untouchable. Dont give out raises, Cut your own salaries ( part-timers shouldnt make what you do ) and you have to layoff some people or eliminate certain jobs that others can do.
Stop the spending except on the essentials the city residents actually need. Not what you want to make you and those entities involved look and feel good. Again It about the city not you.
Raising Taxes and fees to the residents & businesses in Margate will not balance the budget in the long run. It will only make our city unaffordable and you will get a bigger budget deficit.
Also get get rid of some of the 55 and older communities. Let some young blood and families in. Maybe then you can get some of the foreclosed and abandoned back on the tax rolls.
You could even get the banks who own those foreclosures to maintain them and pay taxes after all they now own them.
There are lot of thing the city could do if they really wanted to. The time has come to stop thinking about yourselves and start thinking of the businesses & people who voted for you and pay the taxes you need and are resident of this city.
Save Our City before we are more of a ghost town than we already are. Dont let that silly clock tower be the countdown to the end of the city.
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