Looks like Council just got smaller

 

    How can we get enough citizen to see what is going on and will get out and vote for real positive change? Since our present council refuses to face the REAL problems (street repair, separating the combined sewers downtown, the Pioneer Cemetery and our business unfriendly administration, etc., etc.), we MUST convince enough citizens to vote for REAL change. How can we get citizens to understand that being the number 1 fastest dying city in the country (with a population under 100,000)(in other words, the least desirable place to live or to have a business) is NOT a badge of honor? Council ignores the reasons for this rating and decide that having citzens paint their gutters will solve all these problems. I can see it now, a visiting businessman saying: Middletown has some of the lowest performing schools, worst streets, red light cameras, least upkept parks and cemetery, over run with section 8 housing and have zoned out our business, but I want to locate here because they have painted gutters and some of the highest taxes of the competing areas. Of cource council knows how to overcome all of this; hire more economic development people and let Marty change all the business zoning to residential. That will get businesses and people to move here.