She went on to say, "When

somebody calls me wanting their cart path fixed, they don't mean next

week, next month, or six months from now, they mean, 'I'm about to go

out on my cart path, and I expect to see somebody back there working on

it.'"

I consider the council members's

comments to be arrogant, insensitive, insulting, irritating, and out of

touch with the vast majority of her constituents. I hope she is not reflecting

the entire City Council's attitude about expenses and living within its

income.

Peachtree City may be considered

to be an affluent area but the majority of us are not spoiled. We work,

and have worked hard to get where we are. We are very concerned about

tax increases, especially in light of the apparently careless way the

city council has been handling the issue of growing expenses and reduced

revenues.

Most of us understand that

taking care of public concerns takes time. If we wanted everything fixed

immediately we probably would have recalled the mayor and most of the

city council by now. Most of us do question where the leadership of Peachtree

City appears to be taking us but we are not spoiled to the point of demanding

immediate satisfaction to all of our concerns.

Since the councilwoman raised

the issue of cart paths let me respond to that thought as well. They are

in a state of disrepair. If those of us who use them regularly called

McMenamin with all of the areas needing attention, she would never be

able to get off her telephone. Maybe we should all call her and let her

know how bad things really are.

McMenamin should exercise better

judgment about how she views her constituents. She owes us all an apology

for her arrogance. The entire City Council needs to step back and see

how their public really views them, especially as related to how they

spend public monies. Dog parks versus maintaining infrastructure? A million

dollars for a cart bridge and beautiful entrance to the city versus cost

of living raises for city employees? Adding an assistant city manager

for $100,000 versus keeping what we already have in good repair?

Council member Annie and the

rest of the councilmen need to look in the mirror and tell all of us who

and what they really see: Arrogant, spoiled citizens OR taxpayers who

have just about had enough of current leadership.

Paul M. Van't Hof

Peachtree City