I have only lived here just more than a year and am getting madder every time I read the paper on the budget issues and when I get my monthly utility statement. You people are so concerned with saving money for the budget, but you are forever having meetings and arguing about who is to pay what for the dispatching and the police department! Well you can just about bet your life that the members of these boards don’t do this on a volunteer basis! Oh no, they are getting paid to argue over petty things. Also you have a Mr. Arndt who retired last fall or turned his resignation in (can’t remember exactly how it went) but yet he is kept on the payroll as a so-called consultant. What a bunch of hog wash! Ever who was hired for that job should know what they are doing or else they shouldn’t have gotten the job. That is the way it works with any other job! There alone is some money that could be saved! Every month, when our utility bills arrive in the mail, it makes for some interesting reading also. Let’s see what we can come up with for next month’s bill to add $2 on for. We already have the street light fee and now we have a fire hydrant fee. What could we come up with? — Scrub the curb fee, wash the driveways fee, pay for the number of time the toilet flushes fee, etc! If you are going to charge these fees then make sure the street lights are all working. I walk a lot in the early morning and there are blocks at a time with no streetlights on, by early morning — I mean before a lot of you people even have your eyelids blinking! Good grief — every who thinks of these has way too much time on their hands and should maybe have their hours cut to save the city more money yet! By the way, as for the law enforcement and dispatch, I feel that Mike Winkels and his force are doing an excellent job at protecting and serving everyone and doing their jobs, here in Luverne and Rock County. Why can’t you just leave things alone.Linda LenzLuverne
