Time for directors to go

Dear editor:

I got so excited by the recent article citing the $37,862 uptick in tax collections in April. Anyone who travels Seventh Street regularly realizes the driving surface resembles Beirut or Baghdad. Washboards, huge potholes, entire sections of asphalt missing and the steel plates left behind by S&S Plumbing. IEDs are the only thing missing.

So I was ecstatic, thinking at even the absorbent price of $137,500 per mile to pave a city street here in the Spa, city engineer Gary Carnahan might select Seventh Street as one of the 4 miles of paving the city manages to get done each year.

But alas, even the $37,682 increase in tax revenue won’t be enough. See, it will take the city another six months (assuming the increases continue) to simply pay off David Frasher’s severance package of $223K. I needn’t remind residents that we, not the board of directors who approved this terrible contract, will have to pay that for his buyout.

In 2016, board members hired someone with a checkered past and gave out a contract that has now cost us, the taxpayers of Hot Springs, almost a quarter of a million dollars. Suzanne Davidson. Pat McCabe. Elaine Jones. Becca Clark. Larry Williams. Karen Garcia. Randy Fale.

Remember the names. Not all were involved in the hiring, but all or some were involved in the payout in the end. These are the people managing our taxpayer dollars. I wouldn’t let them manage a lemonade stand.

Look for their names in November. They’ll be running again, for the board or some other position. Say enough is enough with incompetence. Noah Little Hot Springs