From the Email InBox: Look for Council and City Staff to Serve the Citizens

Dear Gramps,

At the city council meeting last night, both Mr. Schwab and Mr. Miller stated they had attended both AES meetings. They both said that the meetings did not have much attendance from Grand Terrace citizens. They both said that not many questions were asked.

Why were Mr. Schwab and Mr. Miller not asking questions on behalf of the citizens of Grand Terrace. They are should be looking out for the residents of Grand Terrace. One we elected, one we pay his extreme salary. This city council needs to be reminded that they are in office to represent us. Why would they not want to protect the people that elected them? Is this another one of their backroom deals?

Low attendance - how many people who live in Grand Terrace knew about these meetings? Perhaps some flyers, notice in the newspapers, and something on channel 3 a few weeks before each meeting would have helped.

Maybe meetings that are at a time when people are not working or picking up their children from school. Even now, months later, how many people who live in Grand Terrace know about the pending power plant to be built in our city? How many people know that the power plant will be built near the high school that their children will be attending?