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Voice of the People: What Happens to My City and Property Value if Measure C Fails?

By Rudy Garcia, Grand Terrace Resident
October 31, 2013 at 08:20am. Views: 73

Services provided by the City will be cut to 18 hours a week. Parks will be closed, landscaping will die off and weeds will overtake the parks. The Green Belt, TJ Austin Park, Rollins Park, DeBerry Park, Pico Park and Orange Grove Parkway are just a few areas that will be negatively affected. Sheriff services will be cut below standards of unincorporated areas of the county. Crimes will increase; wait times for response will increase. Graffiti will increase throughout the city. The sidewalks, landscape, and median areas will no longer be maintained as nicely as they have been. I sure don’t want to pull weeds on my day off. I wonder if team Doug Wilson will spearhead volunteer cleanup activities if the tax fails. I don’t think so. The appearance of this City has always been a selling point for real estate. If the tax fails, dilapidation will begin to increase. New development projects will not be able to capture quality citizens because our City will be less attractive, no parks, no police, and no maintenance! No way Team Doug Wilson!! Who will provide the emergency on-call work on the weekends? Who will clean up the hillside on Mt. Vernon when it tumbles onto the roadway which is a monthly occurrence? Who will react to the sewer spills occurring in the streets? As a citizen, you don’t think about these things because the city workforce responds. Not if measure C fails. I don’t think team Doug Wilson will be giving personal phone numbers out. Many Cities have utility taxes to assist with providing necessary services. Grand Terrace is a non-union City that has been furloughed four years, and had benefits cut and workforce reduced 60%. This effort tells me the City Leaders have already made significant changes to reduce costs, which are in my best interests. I refuse to join team Doug Wilson and let my beautiful city become a dilapidated community. Grand Terrace has always been thought of as a great place to live.

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