Tähelepanu!

• Marcio
• 26. Mai 2012 kell 14:59
• #1

City Resident,I'm glad you shot me this, because I read this eilearr in the morning.Tom McMahon and most of Council that supported McMahon are liars plain and simple. One thing that gets me about that report is that they don't take into account the loss of tax revenue associated with the lack of economic development, and how the cost of running a business in the city is much higher than other townships in the county.We can't raise taxes more than they are in place now, in fact we need to lower them and encourage businesses to operate here and collect that revenue instead of Wyomissing, Muhlenberg, etc. We have been sitting with our hands out for one pork project after another by Al Boscov and company year after year, and it's time to be honest that it will not revive the city. In the short term here is what we can do.Let's raise fines for codes violations.Let's raise fines for moving violations.Let's raise fines for parking violationsLet's cut the salaries of administration staff.Eliminate the 5 minutes free on all parking meters. It has been a subject of abuse for far too long. I can't tell you how many times I see somebody go into a building while the other sits in the car just to keep winding the meter for free every 5 minutes.Dissolve The Reading Parking Authority and cut out that unnecessary overhead.Dissolve The Reading Water Authority and cut out that massively unnecessary overhead.These are just some of many that I could keep going on and on about, but we can not expect to increase the burden on people that live here and play by the rules, or we will continue to see more U-Haul trucks every weekend moving out than we do now.