More on the street fee.

Yes the street fee has been my main focus as of late, but it should be.  People are outraged about this issue and they should be.  Again the city lead by the Mayor, Jennifer Julsrud and council president Linda Krug are asking citizens to pay 8.50 a month fee to improve and do street upgrades.  This is something the city should provide with tax dollars.  They say they don't have the funds, but in reality they do. They just chose not to except this.  How you ask does the city have enough money?  well that is a good question.  

Listen the city loves to fund pet projects that use tax dollars, these projects are not an essential part of the what the city should provide.  They also now have more administration help then ever before.  Our Mayor has recently hired a new position, this position is a duplicate of another they already have filled.  We find this a lot in the city.  We also have a human right commission.  Why when the State already has this we don't need to offer it here in the city, any issues can and in this case should be taken up at the State provide office. 

There are places we can cut but the city refuses to look at them, and I am in the process of going threw these to give ideas.

We have a fee's already to Parks and Recreation/ Libray, street lights, water and gas and electric.  Many of these fees are well over charged and have a surplus's.  Why not take those surplus's and add it to the streets? 

This added fee if it was to happen would but a further burden on those the the city councilors and Mayor pretend to defend and care about.  Senior citizens, young adults raising a family and those that have fixed incomes because of disability.   These are the once you hurt the most by making a new fee, these people struggle daily to make ends meet yet you want to add a fee for streets.  It makes no sense but you continue to run people out of Duluth. 

I ask that you look at not creating dog parks, more bike trails, fund pet projects and such until you come to the citize3ns with a real plan that fixes the streets.