Council incumbents hid price tags

After the election, Diana Wilhite said to a paper that she couldn’t believe that she, Richard Munson and Ian Robertson had lost the Spokane Valley City Council election after all they had done for the city. She couldn’t figure out what went wrong.

As a citizen who went to the City Council meetings about the new city center and the SARP (Sprague/Appleway Revitalization Plan) and even the consultation meetings about both of these items, I remember that a lot of the people were in fact for the city center plans but not the SARP. But, at no time did the council ever tell us about how these projects were going to be paid for. At this point they had spent over a million dollars on these items.

When the tens of millions of dollars that were going to be spent on all of this change finally came to light as tax increases, their gooses were cooked. Balanced budget or not, it was time for a change.

At meetings of 80 to 100 taxpayers, and the way the council treated the people that made their feelings known, it was no wonder to anyone who attended why they were voted out. They had been there long enough, and after eight years, with the new council members, they too will have been there long enough.

“We the people” need to take and keep control of our city. Voting the incumbents out is the only way, whether it is local, state or federal.

Daniel Allison

Spokane Valley