- November 23, 2024
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+ Inefficiencies contribute to stormwater funding gap
Dear Editor:
I have lived in Palm Coast for eight years, and my swale has been “repaired” five times in six of those years. I am three homes upstream from a small canal. The water still sits while my neighbors downstream have a nearly dry swale. It is much better than it used to be. The last time the city added soil, while in the past it was always taken away.
Recently, I observed the city adding a new metal culvert that just a few years ago was dug up and the road repaved to connect the small freshwater canal behind some homes. One neighbor told them that was the third time she has observed them working on the same culvert.
So the stormwater fees and taxation to support the failing infrastructure seems to me suspect. I would guess that my neighborhood is not the exception. How much does it cost to repeat the repair? How much to repeat it so often?
I do understand that the new public works director has been doing a great job supervising his staff. I also understand that there seems to be poor quality control in deciding where downhill really might be.
Glenn Partelow
Palm Coast
+ Take a lesson from Weston
Dear Editor:
In regard to the City Hall issue: The city of Weston has a population of just over 65,000. They have nine employees. That’s right, nine city employees. They outsource everything to free enterprise and find it to be very effective with taxpayers’ monies.
If the taxpayers of Palm Coast would demand that type of government, what size would City Hall need to be to accommodate nine employees?
Bradley Harry
Palm Coast
+ Victims need to learn to lock their cars and houses
Dear Editor:
First of all, I have to tell you that I love The Observer. I wait for it to come to my door.
I only experience one thing when I read it that totally drives me up the wall. That is when I read about things getting stolen out of houses and cars when the doors of the houses and cars were left opened and unlocked by the owners.
The ultimate was last week when I read that a man left town and left things unlocked and came home to find things missing. Wow. Shock. What a surprise!
I don’t understand why the paper publishes these incidents. Is it just to ruin people’s morning coffee?
Bernadette Dawson
Palm Coast
