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Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

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Kennewick: Challengers

Taxpayers of Kennewick you have the opportunity to make a drastic change in the political life of the Kennewick City Council by electing five new members. Voters, you have to decide if you are happy with this council's decisions. Having to pay $3 million for the lawsuit for Columbia Park; $860,000 for the carousel; wanting to build a building for the carousel when they don't even know where it is going; $73 million in capital improvements for Southridge; $98,000 for a fake river and salmon with trees that are dying on Canal Drive (this was stimulus money; what a waste). Could it have been used somewhere more sensible? $320,000 in HUD money for a lighthouse on Clover Island (which the port should have paid for entirely). Wanting to close the airport; $250,000 for the mechanics for the curtains at the Toyota Center; another $250,000 for other improvements to the building.

We read recently where there may be layoffs. The employees hear this from the director of support services instead of the city manager? If we are down 20 employees, their salaries and benefits must still be in the overall budget. Their positions must be in each department's budget. What happened to those funds? Give this city some revitalization. Vote Hubbard, Brown, Britain, Smart and Bluechel.

BETTY KLUNDT, Kennewick



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