Critique Of Sun’s Murdock Village Panel Discussion and Editorial
The trouble is that we have in Charlotte a government which is a small clone of the federal politics in D.C. where the politicians could care less about what the citizenry/voters are concerned about. BOCC/Sandrock/Knowlton care only what the “in crowd” wants as evidenced by the following governmental actions/inactions: the permanent closure of the broken Manchester Lock under pressure from a few boaters, which lock could have been replaced today for $3M, but under the state EPA contract negotiated to close the lock the BOCC opted instead to spend on Spring Lake Sewers and Edgewater widening to date nearly $50M; the unnecessary $36M expansion of the Justice Center; the BOCC approval of the Sheriff’s $30M capital budget, which will be substantially reduced if one of two Sheriff candidates beats Prummell next November; the two failed attempts by the ECEC to get the BOCC to agree that the taxpayers should pony up millions of dollars to purchase the IMPAC building complex (Over $10M, if WMU would have chosen IMPAC buildings to provide its aviation degree classrooms); the financial bailout of CCU via the BOCC mandating sewer construction and hookup, the majority of affected home owners do not want because there has been no scientific evidence presented that the Harbor has been polluted by defective septic systems—the position stated by the Commissioners; the BOCC/Knowlton cave in on the environmental lobby’s lawsuit to stop the changes made in 2014 to the 2050 Plan with such changes approved by state government—which cave in will revert the county codes and ordinances back to the status which are 100% anti property owner and anti business; the BOCC’s retention of Ray Sandrock, as County Administrator, even though the taxpayer group I am affiliated with now has 6 major “causes” for dismissal and has asked for Sandock’s dismal several times in public forum; the total ignoring by the Commissioners/ Sandrock that Charlotte’s tax base is eroding constantly due to the lack of economic development success and the fact that more and more county lands are being granted tax exempt status; and last, but not least, the wanton decision by county government, even though the Commissioners/Sandrock and Knowlton were warned not to do so several times since June 2015, to accept a HUD grant of $500K, the legal terms of which place the county in grave danger of the boot heals of HUD in Obama’s effort to drastically change the social makeup of neighborhoods in America.
Our second problem is the Charlotte Sun, the county’s primary local news source, prefers to shelter the politicians and the bureaucrats from major inspection/public criticism rather than verify what the citizens are complaining about and, if true, expose such problems, which are beginning to harm the citizens of this country greatly under the cover of non-transparency.
