Letter to Editor

Dear Tom Hawkins;

We have followed the need for a civic center and read carefully the editorial by the Civic Center Advisory Committee. When the ¼ percent tax was sold to the public it was as if that much tax run the center and that somehow “they” were ready to begin construction. Our family rented the center for the following year in anticipation that it would be ready for our reunion.

Not so, nothing was happening so we withdrew our rental losing $100 deposit in the process, a notable lost sum for us old folks.

Now after two new motels are built (and what do we need two for) we are wanting to increase their taxes when the rooms are empty. We drive by them all the time. We also note that the federal government is looking for empty motel rooms to put up illegal aliens awaiting deportation hearings as more humane for families than jail. And you cannot tax the federal government so we will never collect a penny for the city.

We remain against the tax increase.

Sincerely, Robert C. Thompson LCR 444, Groesbeck