Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1962-03-23

And alb Yes Item Number 7-"Mill Bay Road
that's the approximately Oneblock stretch IN
front of city hall. Just how much money was
poured into that still unpaved short stretch? (fou
notice nothing is said about how much each OF the
listed improvements COST l understand that IL
cost somewhere near $4,000 Yes said S4O,OOO!
IL this is true our next $5000OO in sales tax money
would provide perhaps IL blocks of such improve
ment. and still would not be paved! Also, ono
is prompted to ask here, on projects involving such
OUTLAWS of sales tax money, how is 1t that there was
call for bids? Is the present city administration
completely committed to emergency socalled
"fOrced account" contracting where there is then
permission for all interested contractors to cast
public bids? For quite obvious reasons we are
extremely critical of such shenannigans. And as
far that goes, the present city administra-
ton so unaware of the need of water line to the
city dock that it also is now to be built in
this suspicious "forced account method of con-
tracing? Just how naive, cOmplacent and apa-
thetic are we all supposed to be anyway?
We were promised paved streets when they want
ed the sales tax in the first place and that was
years ago. And despite all the accomplishments
and Improvements" the city manager so lengthily
lists, ask the voters to simply open their eyes.
LOOK at your streets. But be careful you don't
get splashed with the mud or choked by the dustD
And 1 ask you. do you really believe that the
present city administration should be given an.
other half million to waste away again?
say cut them off at the pockets!. Now. Call
halt to this program of waste and inefficiency
Vote NO on the sales tax this time.
They want more money for the water problem
Nobody doubts there is problem and it must be
solved. The present city administration has
spent hundreds of thousands of our tax monies on
that pitiful, little, inadequate mud puddle they
refer to the city reservoir, and. today our
water is worse than ever! Just several weeks ago
they themselves admitted it was more polluted
than ever, and is in fact bad that it might jeop
ardize our cannery-based economy! They stead
tasty ignore the fact that water could be obtained
plenty of good water, from Buskin Lake. the only
large natural body of fresh available water here
They prefer to tinker with halfway measures
costing untold thousands of dollars. And these
same people tell us that it communicates the water
supply to allow the Pillar Mountain road
while they are at the very same moment disturb
ing huge acreages of turf up there and digging ont
truckload after truckload of fill material! 1 say
let us not allow them to piddle away more thous.
ands with their shortsighted pitifully inadequate
and costly mud pie water program. If we are 60
ing to spend more money water let's do it
right.
New the present city administration will, with
out doubt hold up our small boat harbor as their
Exhibit Nmber 1" of why you should give them
more sales tax money But that is just what's the
matter 1T is SMALL too small for our needs
And guess who's fault that is? Again shortsghted
thinking is costing money. City Halls short
sightedness. And who is responsible for engiS
eering the small boat harbor dock in such an out
landish fashion to subsequently require the
expenditure of thousands of sales tax dollars to
lower it to disable height?
There have been other plumbers too. but 1
lack space and patience to continue. Besides, If
what 1 have said here hasn't impressed you,
nothing will