I can only guess why the
referendum didn’t pass. One guess would be that the citizens of
Winona are
tired of levies and referendums.
It seems like every time we turn
around there is a new levy or referendum that people want to pass.
Ultimately it’s the tax payers who
are paying for this referendum
or levy. We are tired of paying. My daughter told at the beginning of the
school year that one of her teacher
had to go and buy supplies that
she felt were needed for her class but there were not enough funds for these
items. That’s sad!
We have become more concerned
with promoting Winona that
we’ve forgotten to do the up keep of Winona.
We have a wonderful College
system with a variety of your choice which College to attend. Don’t people
realize schooling starts at the
K-12 grades? If we keep taking
away from these grades we have no good educational system to teach our
future.
I was talking to a couple for
Red Wing a few weeks ago that had come to Winona on the
train to tour our fair city during the day and then
take the train home that
evening. They had a brochure of Winona that
promoted the downtown area and all of it’s antiques and
shops
downtown. They were very
disappointed with the whole trip! The stores were either not open or had
gone out of business.
They said they went to the mall
and were not impressed either. I’ve heard many comment like this from other
people in the
surrounding area also. They all
seem to have the same remarks.
I’ve read through all of the
different comments on the “Now What?” messages and I am very surprised with
a lot of the comments to each
other. I also have read through
the rules of posting messages before posting this message myself. I know I
can not talk about a individual,
or be antagonistic, sarcastic or
argumentative. These are all very good rules to have in a forum such as
this. I would like to know why
a certain City Counsel member or
City Planner then violated rules number 4 and 5? I did not realize that
there are those that seem to
feel they are above everyone
else.
When you have a retired person
who doesn’t have any children in school any longer, or doesn’t care about
new roads being built, or lakes that
should or shouldn’t keep them
warm over the winter for the ducks to stay around, you will most definitely
always get a NO vote on any
levy or referendum that is
brought forth to be voted on. I don’t always understand these ideas but they
do need to be address in a different
way to these people so they will
better understand the importance of a levy or referendum. All these people
are looking at is a small limited
retirement income that they have
to live on. They know they can not afford to have their property taxes
raised at the whim of a few people
who don’t live in their shoes
and don’t understand the hard times they are going through just to make ends
meet.
How can we in lower costs or
increase these incomes?
Marie
Rossin
