Letter from Dorothy Black about Altamont

I am wondering why our city board doesn’t treat everyone equal. They are taking people to court for not obeying what they want. But they aren’t making a good example for the people. They aren’t working on city property to keep it cleaned up, especially behind city hall. The weeds have grown up high as the building. If we people let ours grow, we get a letter to clean up or go to court. Not fair.

There are animals running over the village, not being tied or penned up. They don’t seem to care if they mess in someone else’s yard. I, for one, don’t like it. There are messes always in the yard to step in. At night they come up on my porch and get the food I feed to my outside cats. I can’t afford to feed every animal in town. Sure hope something is done about it.

The small town organization isn’t doing any good in this little village. Our city board is going ahead with some ordinances. Some of them that don’t amount to much, they push to court. Some things they should be looking into that would help this village, they are letting go. They seem to pick on certain people, and don’t know when to stop.

When the city board decides to show some appreciation to the village and people in it, I believe this little village would work out better and be a better village for people to live in.

The organization people are taking advantage of these little towns and villages. We need help to get out of organization. Need a big change in the board members. Everyone should get out and vote. If they don’t, they shouldn’t have anything to gripe about.

I hear that some people don’t get building permits. Some people have to buy them to redo little things around their properties. I think the permits should be for building buildings, not for redoing the porches, roofs, and decks that are going to improve the properties. What do you think?

We have a member of the board that screams, calls people liars and busy bodies and gets away with it by other board members. The village people don’t like that. Just because board members don’t like some people that are in the village they try to run over them.

There is one street especially that needs to be cleaned up a lot and the board is letting the people trash it up a lot. What are citizens thinking when they drive through this village of ours? Not very much. They say it is a very trashy village.

Dorothy Black, Altamont