Arrow-right Camera
Subscribe now

Council out of its depth

We don’t have a friendly small town in Millwood anymore. The mayor and City Council can’t even maintain the wading pool. What’s next, charge people to use the park?

They got Millwood changed from a town to a city. Why, so they could get all new stationery? They also spent money for new expensive street signs (which were not needed), redecorated the inside of the Town Hall (but now they don’t let anyone use it) and changed the town logo so that now it looks like Liberty Lake’s.

I don’t understand. In the past we built a new maintenance shop, bought new dump trucks and maintenance trucks, built a gazebo, resurfaced the tennis courts, painted the water tank, did extensive landscaping and plowed snow regularly. Also, we already built a spray park for the kids, so why did they say they planned to replace the wading pool with a spray park? We did all this and more and stayed within budget.

Millwood now has a new tax base in the shopping center at Trent and Argonne, and I’m sure the paper mill still pays their taxes.

Why can’t they manage to maintain the popular wading pool? What’s next?

Jeanne Batson

Spokane



Letters policy

The Spokesman-Review invites original letters on local topics of public interest. Your letter must adhere to the following rules:

  • No more than 250 words
  • We reserve the right to reject letters that are not factually correct, racist or are written with malice.
  • We cannot accept more than one letter a month from the same writer.
  • With each letter, include your daytime phone number and street address.
  • The Spokesman-Review retains the nonexclusive right to archive and re-publish any material submitted for publication.

Unfortunately, we don’t have space to publish all letters received, nor are we able to acknowledge their receipt. (Learn more.)

Submit letters using any of the following:

Our online form
Submit your letter here
Mail
Letters to the Editor
The Spokesman-Review
999 W. Riverside Ave.
Spokane, WA 99201
Fax
(509) 459-3815

Read more about how we crafted our Letters to the Editor policy