Dear Editor:
Well, I cannot tell if last week’s Cibola Citizen story is good news or bad news. It seems the City of Grants may have finally figured out the private company Jacobs was not doing its job and may cost them $200K to repair what they were supposed to be taking care of.
On a personal note, the only thing I saw this company do was buy lots of new pickups and double the cost of pumping my septic tank. It seems the company closed off my local guy that pumps my septic tank every so often while they were doing repairs on the Grants Sewer system. He had to drive to Gallup to dump what he pumped out and raised his price to almost double what it used to cost me. Of course, I complained but it fell on deaf ears at city hall, and a past letter to the editor.
At the end of the day there must be someone at city hall that oversees these things, but I guess the last manager was concerned about too many things like giving herself raises, along with the one employee who was also a county commissioner. The Federal Government has now given Grants $2.2 million, the county $5.1, and Milan close to $900k in Covid-19 relief funds, and the county loaned $200K right away to the city to do emergency repairs on their sewer plant. Not too long ago the county was broke, but this year had enough money to give their new manger a raise and 10k to each county commissioner. I understand only one commissioner raised a concern about the employees not getting anything for some time because they were broke, and the same commissioner who works for the city made the motion for the raises to be approved. Funny how all this works I recall some years back a former county manager and commissioner were facing charges for using county money to buy themselves AR-15s, and one commissioner got a 90k pay day from the new county building real estate deal. Let us hope with the new influx of money from the government they will try and doing something good with it for the employees or the people they work for instead of finding ways to put it in their pockets, that seems to happen too often. All we can do is vote them out every time we get a chance and hope the next person has some honesty, someone still in their sole to do the right thing for their fellow man instead of themselves. And let us not forget those jokers in Washington as well, sometimes they make the local politicians look like they are moving in slow motion. A good dose of term limits is what all of them need just for starters.
Signed
Mr. Harry L. Hall
USAF Veteran Retried Sheriff Lt.
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