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Is your fourth choice???? Mr. Meyer or Mr. Waldack? quite a dilemma?

Now lets review your math. May I suggest you research the actual voting tally to determine the level of voting. Now if the turnout is say 4500 votes, do you or I have a concern?

I understand your position, just as I understood Mr. Magel's position when he said clearly to me that the referendum on a subsidized 24 hr clinic would pass, because he said it would, and referenced a prior pancake breakfast as testimony to its support in the community.

Are you being coached because you seem so confident in outcomes?

In any event, thanks for clearing that up, because history matters and choices do matter.

Although my choices clearly differ from yours, I can tell you this, I hear the sound from those who are concerned with spending and the plight of residents that wish to live on this island without the excessive encumbrance of debt that one council/city hired consultant described as "twice" the normal.

I have no personal ill will to the other candidates, but as Recker, Gibson, and Waldack continue on the path of spending and supporting the expansion of city services and capital, to which I will include Mr. Meyer based on his public positions of the community center-especially the size. Again, their positions normally go to a "bigger is better", which I believe is for the entertainment of folks beyond the needs our island. Hey, the argument, growth is good, especially for visitors, sounds great, but they do not pay the ad valorem to support such an excess structure including maintenance and support of public facilities. And the fee revenue does not provide enough to pay for support staff and maintenance. But the argument was it would lead to higher property valuations.

I saw growth, and it was the growth in number of vacant lots. Is that an increase in property valuation????? Which is quite telling, all the while, the city is expanding services in the same time frame.

So for me the choices are clear and who you vote for can have a major impact.

I know Mr. Magel and yourself will portray me as a naysayer, as he has others; since the city's birth there has been a significant growth in conversion of single family residences to vacant lots. For me that tells the tale, as to how the city manages a community to the extent that there are now more vacant residential lots than when the city was incorporated. Now that is the fingerprint the city has laid upon this island!

And it seems everything the city lays its hands on must be expanded, to now include fire boats and more local police personnel, to a super-sized community center with rooms to handle every conceivable hobby known to mankind.

Is there a war on single family homes?