In fact, the city's Department of Water and Power is selling its excess power to our neighbors. David Widmer, Los Angeles Property taxes continue to escalate at double-digit rates, yet unnecessary spending calls to question why the leaders of our community continue to make poor resource decisions. Recent observations have led me to the conclusion that common sense is dead in West Lafayette. We are victims of spending that actually hurts the community. The city is tearing up and replacing good sidewalks along Salisbury Street.
Many streets have no sidewalks.
Two tennis courts at Burtsfield School have been destroyed. Few public tennis courts exist in town, but now we have two fewer. Three years ago it took 30 seconds to exit the Harrison Bridge down to North River Road and proceed up Robinson Street. After years of spending, inconvenience, construction and lights that impede traffic flow, it takes six times longer. Then there is the mismanagement and cost overruns on that little project down by the Wabash River.