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Letters from our R eaders
The holidays are over, so it’s time to poke the bear again. Hartington Mayor Mark Becker and his four lieutenants knew that the taxpayers had hundreds of thousands of dollars in our city reserves. They also knew they would have to use our reserve funds or they would have to lower our tax base, according to a First Lieutenant.
The Mayor and his lieutenants conned the taxpayers to vote on a bond to raise our taxes to build a new city maintanence building, which we needed. This cleared the way for the lieutenants to waste our hard-earned tax money on a money pit that will never put a dime in the city coffers.
Why didn’t the taxpayers/voters have a chance to vote to use our reserves to pay for the new building, which we needed?
The First Lieutenant said that people will come to Hartington to see our new money pit and decide to move here.
We need to know, are the Mayor and Council getting weekly or monthly updates at a legal public meeting, or are they getting updates at a private business on Saturday mornings?
Is this legal? After all, three Council members makes a quorum.
— Dennis Schumacher, Hartington
