Sometimes your tax dollars go to this . . . . . .

Let me start off by saying that I live in Illinois now. However, I use to live in Wisconsin when I grew up and I have many friends that still live there.  This is how I got wind of this store I’m going to share with you all.  I‘m literally picking up my jaw from the floor, because is this was my elected official, we’ll I can’t publish what I’d say to him!!!!

Last week, Wisconsin got some more snow dumped on them.  My mom in Green Bay told me they had 5-6 inches.  My friend Julie lives in Luxemburg, WI, so they had at least that much snow.  Their schools were on a 2 hour delay.  That normally happens because the roads are crappy and the city needs time to get the plows out.

I’m going to start with the letter Julie wrote to her trustee when after the two hour delay, the road THAT THE SCHOOL IS ON was not plowed.  We aren’t talking her home.  We are talking about a road that a school is on where many parents would be dropping off their children.  I also have to say that I thought Julie’s letter was a nicely written letter.  It is something you bring up to your trustee, so that things like this get taken care of.  She wrote the letter to the superintendent of the school who then forwarded her letter on to their local government officials in Luxemburg. Here’s Julie’s letter:

Good morning. I am contacting you in concern to the condition of the road that the Primary School is located on. My husband and I drive our kids to school each day so that they do not have to get on the bus so early and appreciated the 2 hour delay today to get the roads cleared for traffic and safety. I was absolutely surprised and disappointed when I came into Luxemburg and noticed that the road the school is on had not been touched by a plow. I drop my son off at the Intermediate school and the drop off lot was cleared and the entrance and exit of the parking lot was also cleared. I understand that there is going to be some standing water due to the slush. I also understand that some of the side roads in the district may not have been plowed and cleared, but the road that the school is on? I do not know whose responsibility it is to make sure these roads are cleared but would expect that after a 2 hour delay, this would have been taken care of. The condition of the lot was awful as well. My girls had to step through about a foot of slush that was not cleared in the drop off lane in order to get onto the sidewalk into school.

Please understand that I did not expect the roads to be perfectly clear or the lot to be clean and dry, but the condition it was in was unacceptable and the fact that a plow had not even been down the road was incomprehensible to us, especially after a 2 hour delay.

This is the response she got (and be ready to pick your jaw off the floor):

My Name is Josh Salentine, I am a trustee for the Village and received a copy of your letter that you had written to Mr Saunders.

It is up to my Superintendent of Streets to call the county in to plow our village streets. He also happens to be a bus driver for LC as well. I will NEVER second guess him or his opinion whether to get them plowed or not.

Quite frankly I really don’t care that you find my streets “unacceptable” or that it was “incomprehensible” that my streets were not cleaned to your liking.

Its Wisconsin, Its April, Sometimes it snows.

Am I supposed to run my snow removal budget in the red and have to ask my retired constituents who live on a fixed income that we have to raise taxes because Julie Witt and her husband were “disappointed” that EVEN after a two hour delay the streets were not plowed? It was slush that morning not glare ice. Get over it.

Sincerely
Josh Salentine
Trustee, Village of Luxemburg

Wow, right? Unfortunately, I don’t live in Wisconsin anymore so I can’t vote this jerk out of office.  Completely unprofessional and uncalled for if you ask me.  Julie doesn’t even want anything from this except for maybe the road the school on to be plowed.  I don’t think that’s asking for a lot since she does pay taxes that pay for that!

What are your thoughts????