In response to Paul Stocker's letter to the editor indicating “the taxpayers have agreed to have a branch library” (St. Albert Gazette, April 26). If that agreement was based on the tiny number of people surveyed and how it was geared to make it so one had to pick one of the three options given without being able to say “none.” I feel there are a lot of people opposed to this because of the tax increase to the taxpayers.
A citizen has started a petition to stop this from going forward and it appears to be getting a lot of notice and approval. I will sign the petition as I do not agree with any tax increases for these projects based on the city's inability to properly budget, run way over costs on every project and the actual need for this project is not really necessary.
Once again council rushes forward on things they shouldn't without taking into account a good majority of its taxpayers do not agree with their spending. Projects like this one should perhaps be put to a vote that all citizens can decide on. That might not go along with council's usual way of skewing results with their surveys but it would be a much broader and fair way of making a decision on large expensive projects.
J. Ritchie, St. Albert
