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


is perhaps noteworthy more for what it fails to
tell than for what it reveals.
Let us scrutinize first what the article reveals.
Permit me to quote the article-'1t has been DEM
Onstrated that paving without properly preparing
the subsurface of streets is a definite waste of
money as the paving will not stand up over the
years that should be expected of properly execut-
ed paving job
This is both an interesting and surprising all
mission Yes indeed all agree with the
city administration that they have amply demon
strated" this fact to Just take look at the
paving they did with our sales tax money. IL GER
tainIy was complete and utter waste of money!
Take drive over OMISSION Road, Mill Bay, Ma
rine Way Kraft Street, and Harbor Avenue
paved in downtown area" Che listed them as ac-
complishment No. 10 in his list and one might
well ask Just who's fault is it that this paving,
done at the cost of tens of thousands of sales tax
dollars was so faulty done that it behooves even
the city administration itself to admit it was a
waste of money? And these same people now
come with outstretched palms demanding more
sales tax dollars to correct this exravagantly un-
necessary paving blunder
Let's get one thing straight right here and now.
posing extension of the sales tax AT THIS TIME,
are not necessarily prompted merely out of dis
taste for taxes. 1 doubt that anyone really likes
to pay taxes far as that goes but we are simply
loathe to give the present city administration an
other opportunity to demonstrate how to waste
our money trying to pave streets. We are against
throwing good money after bad And believe it
or not these sales takers in city hall didn't learn
thing by their experience, for they still show
every intention of going ahead and trying to pave
fn- IL
responsible contractors who know what they are
doing.
Several people, undoubtedly inclined to be gen.
erousminded towards the present city admins
tration have remarked well, they learning
anyway" But, ask, why should Kodiak taxpay
ers have to foot the bill for their education.
and to the tune of another half million sales tax
dollars?
But let's take another look at the city managers
list of Accomplishments" Take Item number f.
Scope Street-ShOrt stretch of street from
Cope Street to Hillcrest Avenue" Now that's
real deusy! The city manager had to make real
long stretch of the imagination to dare list that
project which in reality amounted to truly short
stretch-in fact it's about the length of four ping
pong tables. And furthermore, in case he is not
aware OF 1t-tncre is no street existing by the
name of HilIcrest Avenue. Nowhere excepting
his charts. And in this regard / might point out
that the present city administration has used
told tens of thousands of sales tax monies to
struct streets into 'f0rested areas" where not
soul lived while streets such as Hillcrest Avenue,
which were planned and laid out many years ago,
continue to exist only on charts. And people have
lived along such "streets" for years now. Just
why should the present city administration have
been so concerned with constructing streets into
uninhabited unimprOved, forest areas, with our
sales tax money anyway? Does this sort of myster-
ious business make sense to anyone at all?
And Item No. is especially noteworthy-"Mis-
sion Road-widen street and straighten curve from
9Th to 18th Ave to eliminate dangerous and narrow
curve" 1t is somewhat odd that this was the only
place on Mission Road to receive such attention,
however, it is nice it done-even though this
little piece of work succeeded in at least provid-
ing parking place for the city clerk, among
others.