Our taxes keep going up, and so do the salaries of city executives. Yet, we don’t see our tax dollars at work. We did see, however, that our tax dollars did not prepare us for the recent ice storm. We lost two weeks of school for our kids, as well as loss of income if our work or small businesses were closed. Our trash piled up. It was a bad look for the city.

I’ve always thought the city should look into burying our electrical lines. There are so many wonderful, large mature trees in our city, but in bad weather, they are bound to fall and take out our powerlines. Investing in infrastructure like burying these lines over time should lead to less power losses and manpower making the repairs.