Your Views

The plebiscite has taken main attention during this election. And I know that a lot of people who are against further building of facilities are looking at their tax dollars very closely.

We are all faced with making a decision this month that will affect us for years. We need to pick seven outstanding individuals to represent us. Some of our past choices have let us down.

We have heard from several council candidates that they cannot possibly get to every household because there are 20,000 plus households in St. Albert. The simple cure for this problem is to evolve council representation to a ward system.

Your vote counts … And so does your wisdom. It seems to me that before every election individuals are writing letters to the editor to try to sway our vote, mostly by trashing someone they don’t like.

With the upcoming civic election one cannot help but get caught up in the words and public discussion, which are becoming more ubiquitous as Oct. 16 th approaches.

With the voting already underway, my thoughts this year have been on what I would like to see. I don't agree with wasting residential taxes on new projects, the library for one could be expanded by using space that already exists.

My family and friends have attended and watched many Monday city council meetings and we are surprised at the figures of attendance you recently reported ( Gazette , Sept.

There’s an old adage that the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. It is easy to spout election promises and present as the superior candidate.

Re: St. Albert candidates comments response to traffic issues ( Gazette , Sept. 27). I found it interesting that all candidates are in agreement, the functionality of left turn lights is a fiasco.

These are stressful times the cost of living is continually going up the taxpayer dollar is stretched to the limit. No matter where the money comes from, federal, provincial grants, civic it all basically comes from the taxpayer.