It's not too late to be heard

It isn’t too late for residents of Whitefish to make their voice heard. Whether you own or rent your taxes (rental payment) are going up, way up!

Please don’t sit back and let it happen. Call your City Council, attend a council meeting or write a letter to let them know $14.6 million for a City Hall is too much.

After all we are the people and the back bone of the community.

We raise and send our kids to school here, we support the schools, the hospital, the library, the churches, the Wave, the theater, Wings and Shepherd’s Hand, and the police department. We volunteer. We want to be able to continue living here.

The tourists do contribute greatly to our economy when they visit, but our problems are not their problems. Sometimes if they are disorderly and don’t obey laws, then it is our problem.

As another resident said at the last council meeting, “Whoever goes to a city, and has on their agenda to visit and enjoy City Hall?”

City Hall is just that, the function is to run the city as efficient as possible and to address the concerns of the taxpayers who work, live, volunteer and die here.

The idea that $14.6 million will be spent to build this City Hall is too much. What other city in Montana or anywhere has the architecture structure of this one? How many dollars have for that alone already been spent?

We, the people and the taxpayers, deserve a break.

— Levy Johnson, Whitefish