Current city officials not qualified to manage funds

To The Daily: It appears that Decatur is being taken to the cleaners on the Sweetwater project. From what is being made public, any other city puts up little to nothing to get Bass-Pro Shops, but we have to mortgage the house and all of the property and then exempt them from paying anything for 20 years.

I guess we couldn’t expect much more from the leadership we have downtown. People are so blind, they can’t see the forest for the trees. This group is guided by one individual that couldn’t even manage a few thousand dollars a year of his own and takes personal bankruptcy. Now he thinks he can manage millions of your tax dollars.

We have a mayor that wants something so bad that he will throw the baby out with the bath water, just to say that he was responsible at election time. We want some people who are responsible in character, rather than some people who have proven they are not responsible stewards of our tax dollars.

Before we undertake this responsibility, why don’t we wait until after the election so we will see who is in charge of managing our money? No one has kept any pre-election promises before, and they are making no attempt to fulfill any this time, either.

I’m not against the Sweetwater center, but I want responsible people in charge who have a record of success rather than a few who think they are of the same caliber as a dictator and what they say is gospel, with no input from the people who will be footing the bill for many more years to come.

Don’t forget, these are our employees. They are paid with our tax dollars, and we are their supervisors.

At election time, let’s get rid of the incompetent employees and put some people in who are trustworthy.

Aaron Potts
Decatur