Dear Editor,In January's City Council meeting our Council voted to give away the entire $180,000.00 to the daycare expansion all at one time. That's right, as a lump sum. Anyone that has ever managed a project or built a house knows that you only get the money from your bank (in this case our ...

Dear Editor,Most of you know about the story of the boy who cried "wolf." The story ends with that boy being eaten by the wolf because he had called wolf too often and no one listened when there really was a wolf. Maybe that is what is happening in this town. Maybe I have complained about our ...

Dear Editor,Some in this town feel I have a negative attitude toward our City Council and its propensity to give away our money. They may be right given our council's apparent perspective of seeing the sun rise higher over our city's bleak financial horizon by giving away our tax dollars. I, ...

Dear Editor,The city budget for 2017 saw a reduction of almost $60,000.00 total in city services such as the cemetery, park, EMS, etc. In 2018, the story will be the same. If this happens again in 2019, which it almost certainly will due, in part, to fiscal mismanagement by our council and ...

Dear Editor,The misuse of our city's tax dollars continue as our misguided City Council handed over $180,000.00 to the daycare expansion project at the Jan. council meeting. When they promised the money in late spring of last year, they didn't set a deadline for the daycare board to raise their ...

Dear Editor,What can our city do to ensure our Main Street keeps all of its store fronts full? Remember, our Main Street is the face of our community. Also reflect on how so many towns have lost their Main Street and now appear to be dead to anyone that travels through them or considers them ...

Dear Editor,As we look at a new year, let us take time to consider our city's finances and those that take care of those finances. I hope 2018 finds our city in a stronger financial condition than it was at the onset of 2017. I hope our City Council is able to establish and maintain proper ...

Dear Editor,Someone that I frequently see as I use the park's fitness trail stopped me at the grocery store and asked when I thought the remainder of the fitness trail would be paved. I told him I didn't think it would be anytime soon because the city donated money to the school's daycare ...

Dear Editor,As I look at our city paying for nearly one-third of Reinbeck's child daycare building, I wonder why it isn't paying the same amount for elderly daycare. A majority of us in town are more likely to use elderly daycare (ie: nursing home, assisted living, congregate living) than the ...

Dear Editor,I wonder if the G-R School System will donate to the City of Reinbeck when it needs to replace/expand the pool bathhouse or fix the cemetery drives, etc.? The City of Reinbeck is planning on donating another $180,000.00 to the Reinbeck daycare building expansion, which belongs to ...