Let Them Eat Cake?

Amid an economic crisis of national proportions, Fish Lake Township residents are losing their jobs, losing their homes and losing hope. Despite the worsening depression, Fish Lake Township supervisors not only voted to raise property taxes again, but to purchase a new road grader, too.

What “urgent” need has driven Fish Lake Township Supervisors Carter, Cupit and Larkin to sign a recent agreement with Ziegler Caterpillar to purchase a brand new 140M road grader at a cost of $246,025 to the taxpayers? Why has the township’s 2001 140H Cat road grader suddenly become unusable? Could the answer lie in part in the inability of the township’s self-proclaimed “Grader Operator” to change even a light bulb in a road grader which is no longer under factory warranty……a “Grader Operator” who is a 14 year employee earning in excess of $44,000 plus benefits each year?

Has the self-absorbed town board become oblivious to the plight of their fiefdom?

Clandestine Public Hearing at FLT?

Once again Fish Lake Township’s website has failed to inform the public of a public hearing to be held on May 10 at 7:10 p.m. at the town hall. In fact, the Fish Lake Township website currently shows; “May 10, 2010 Monthly Meeting Agenda” as “None at this time.” For a township whose website purports to be “created as a public service for the residents of Fish Lake Township,” why has the public hearing notice to vacate a township road not been posted for the public? Neighboring townships such as Lent and Sunrise provide excellent website service to their residents by routinely posting public notices in advance of any actions. So why not Fish Lake Township whose clerk is paid in excess of $750 per month? Why the secrecy about informing the public of an upcoming public hearing to give away a portion of Cedarcrest Court to David Baker and Sherry Hropko? Perhaps Fish Lake Township should instead proclaim their website was “created as a public service for some residents of Fish Lake Township.”