To the community,

I am presently very concerned that the  City Council now intends to not fund maintenance of city streets. 

Consider my points: 

1. Since  Measure C has failed, the City Council can now shift blame of  our streets in disrepair upon the voters.  

2. If the street repairs were now adequately funded, this would be like an admission that the funds were available before the Measure C proposal.  

The “no” voters were correct in their votes. Math, tells us why. Nancy Kerry had made it public knowledge that the  city employees’  retirement benefits would rise in the coming years from $4.7 million to $9.7 million by year  2022. Measure C was expected to raise only $2.5 million per year. Measure  C was clearly not an answer to our problem.  The problem would return again before year 2022. 

One most obvious solution to the problem is to reduce the city employees’ retirement packages. Nancy  Kerry has now decided to eliminate retirement health care. But in my opinion, our City Council will not act to allocate funds for street  repairs. At  the community talk (at Y coffee shop) Tom Davis was asked: “Are street repairs on City Council’s agenda?”  The answer came  back  “no.”

If  you think through all of this,  you’ll arrive at the same conclusion that I have. I want the citizens to understand  what’s going on, so I want this all made public. If we continue to wait, we’ll lose another year.

Daniel Harvey, South Lake Tahoe homeowner