The trail in Lions Park has been swept down to the pavement again.
How can you possibly explain or justify this extravagant service for an elite group of citizens of St. Albert. How can you possibly explain or justify this waste of taxpayers' money? Throwing it out in leaps and bounds on this absolutely unnecessary waste of manpower, fuel and equipment that is all paid for, not with your own money, but mine and all the other St. Albert taxpayers.
According to our statistics we have 5,500 seniors living in St. Albert below the poverty line. That means that their yearly income is no more than somewhere between $14,000 and $20,000. That number of citizens nevertheless encompasses no less than 10 per cent of St. Albert's population. These people have lived here all their life and raised their families here. You force all the extra increases of the utility costs, recycling fees and you name it, upon these people although they do not have any service or benefits from all these enforced costs.
And starting next year you are going to increase these costs even more. Yet you opt to spend their money on these ridiculous, needless jobs of sweeping some trails down to the pavement --- most likely on a daily basis. How can you possibly justify this sort of mentality and arrogance? Do you people not have any sort of a conscience at all?
Lilo Engler, St. Albert
