Setting the record stright

I feel we should point out the incorrect statements that the city made on Tuesday evening.

1st Dick Hails said the city mailed "two notifications". That is not true, last year they did not mail any notification to the residents. They did mail 1st class mail this year.

2nd Goldie Wells stated that she would be our council member. NOT true, the district we will be in, is district 1 T. Dianne Bellamy-Small.

3rd Zack said he had met with us twice. Wrong again. He did meet with a group at his office, and then he had committed to coming out to our area so we could show him around, however about 15 minutes before he was to arrive he cancelled and never rescheduled.

4th Robbie said it was "not fair - not the procedure to wait and that delaying would create a bad precedent" well i don't understand if there are lots of other neighborhoods that have city water, that are not annexed. ie Cardinal and Sedgefield.

5th Sandra spoke of last year meeting and the topic of the notification. Yes we brought up the lack of disclosure, but that was one point out of several, we brought up the lack of services / amenities last year also. The city has had a year to "get their house in order" and provide the services.

6th Terry Wood said that "there was no case law" that is not true our attorney showed me the case where a community did "withdraw" the petition and won! I believe he was just trying to influence the council.

I realize that some of these misstatements are not massive, EXPECT Terry, however i feel we should keep the truth in the forefront. We will continue to hold their feet to the truth!