Dear Editor:

In April last year, Waitsburg voters replaced a council that had provided this city with new playground equipment, two important flood control projects and was active in community promotion.

What has the new council accomplished?

They passed an ordinance allowing golf carts on city streets. They overturned the past council's decision allowing the use of city land for a BMX track. They reduced their meetings from twice to once a month.

At a public meeting in January, they declined to hear answers to their critical questions regarding the proposed BMX track, thus killing a community project that could have brought benefits to our kids and our businesses.

Several council members have said they'd like to leave the door open for a large manufacturer to use that same land, but what have they done to recruit one?

It's disheartening that the men on the current council shut the door on initiatives without meaningful debate. I feel they have failed our community and our children.

I urge all voters to look carefully at all the candidates and elect the ones who are fresh and willing to work on behalf of all people in Waitsburg. Talk to all of them and ask hard questions.

Currently, our citizens are not being heard.

Tawnya McVey, Waitsburg