Dear Editor:
As we see it, it is incomprehensible that Town of Osoyoos council perceives that local taxpayers can’t see through the pretense of so-called financial transparency as council continues to nibble at our tax dollars, using up hundreds of dollars to pay for full page advertisements in the local newspaper and dedicating a full day to sell a very expensive proposed $6.6 million fire hall.
This is the same town council that is denying us the democratic right to have a referendum for a mere $8,000 of taxpayer money.
It’s our money. Let us, the taxpayers, spend it how we want.
The current town council also suggests in last week’s full page ad in the Osoyoos Times that should a referendum be held, they would schedule it at a time when many taxpaying residents would be away from Osoyoos, during December to March, which also infers they have the arrogance to believe they would be re-elected to invoke such a process.
In respect to the proposed $6.6-million fire hall, had a referendum gone ahead as it should have this past summer, we would not be having this discussion.
To be fair to all Osoyoos taxpayers, whoever gets elected in November should defer any further processes in this matter until the summer of 2015.
Thank you.
Ray Vandenberg and Jean Clarke
Osoyoos, B.C.
