Town and county report
To the editor:
Three things on our island are as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise:
1. Our property tax rate will rise for the third straight year. It will be raised by a town council that’s claimed for three years it wants to ween the town off it’s dependence on property taxes.
2. Lee County government will screw up the next renourishment project. This time at the north end, because Steve Boutelle, who messed up the first one, once again is in charge. In fact, the next screw up has already begun even before the first grain of sand has arrived. Boutelle initially said the north end project would be completed by the end of the year. Now, he says, it won’t begin until the first of the new year. Swell. Just in time to stink up the beaches at the very moment the tourists arrive at those expensive hotels and cottages.
3. The Mound House will continue to exist only in The Twilight Zone. Always beckoning, always unreachable.
Lee Melsek
Fort Myers Beach