The Marysville Mayor and City Council want to increase our sales tax to build a new city government complex for police, city offices, mayors office and city court.
Mayor Nehring and his accomplices on the city council see a way to spend more of our money. New offices are not going to improve services or safety. But it will make Nehring and the city council look good.
I would rather see the sale tax increase go toward more police officers. Since 2005 then-Mayor Kendall and Nehring and members of city council voted to annex 19,000 county residence into the city without a vote of the people. The mayor’s office ceased the traffic safety patrol and didn’t have enough officers to patrol the new city limits. Thirteen years later we still don’t.
I live on 132nd Street NE between 67th and 51st. All day I watch cars, motorcycles and semi tractor-trailer rigs go up and down my street in excess of the speed limits. I’ve seen trucks roaring through doing more than 45-50 mph. I’ve seen kids on dirt bikes popping wheelies. Motorcycles doing close the 80-90 mph. I saw a pickup pass a car in front of my house yesterday both were doing more than 45 mph.
Before the annexation we would see sheriff deputies do safety patrols twice a month and State Patrol every month or two.
If it wasn’t for the school buses slowing down to 20 mph in school zones we would have no traffic management.
I have talked to people that say you can do anything you want north of 100th Street NE and east of State Street and Smokey Point Boulevard because you never see any Marysville police.
Michael McAnaw
Marysville
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