Re: "City council must aim for zero-per-cent tax increase," Letters, July 20.
I strongly support resident Joyce Kay and her recent letter in The Gazette calling on St. Albert city council to aim for zero-per-cent tax increases.
Given the amount of commercial development we have seen over recent years we shouldn't have any increase at all. We need a council to stop spending. Council's spending on the St. Albert Trail has got to come to a grinding halt.
We need to haul UCP Minister and MLA Dale Nally in front of council and demand that his government connect Ray Gibbon Drive with Highway 2 north and start planning for an eastern bypass as well.
St. Albert is one of the few municipalities that does not have a bypass. It's time the spenders on council took on this issue.
We also need to have a public review of the economic planning of new subdivisions to ensure they are paying their own way rather than being subsidized for decades by existing taxpayers.
Bob Russell, St. Albert
