Kirkland Candidate’s Night

After attending the candadates night, I am amazed at the ignorance of some people who seek public office.To wit: John Pierce and Mike Crase both repeatedly tried to make a case to lower the village tax. Now, I agree that taxes are too damn high in most places. Neither of them could quite grasp the fact that a mere 6% of their tax bill is paid to the Village of Kirkland.For that 6% one gets steets…police protection…safe water…sewer and administration that works very hard to insure health and welfare etc. We have minimum staff…3 public works personel. We have a 3 man police dept. Where do we cut? Mike Crase even suggested we don’t fix a water main “if it breaks at three o’clock in the morning.” Further suggesting that we wait until tomorrow. Mike, let me know how that works for you…if that water main is in front of your house!! And John Pierce, who has not even attended a village board meeting in nearly twenty years, seems to have all the answers. He needs to thank disgruntled wanna be developer Bob Fluery. for supplying those answers. As mayor of the Village of Kirkland, I take issue to the comments made by these two candidates.When I was elected to my third term as mayor after seventeen years as trustee, I made a promise to never compromise the health and safety of the people of Kirkland….and ya know what??? Neither will these guys.Thank you….Les Bellah