Agreed - seems Mr. Kowalke convinced his assembly representative peers that recently voted not to even put a 3% increase to the borough bed tax - recommended in 2008 - on this October's local ballot that WILL contain the recreation maintenance bond for past due repairs and unplanned replacement - nearly doubled with Kowalke's and Mayfield's new recreation projects to 'sweeten the pot' to entice boroughwide votes to raise all our property taxes for what, 30 years? 

Unaware of accumulating debt, unmet critical costs, and an increasing number of 'emergencies,' how likely are uninformed voters to fall for the borough spin and dig us all deeper in residential taxes that continue to climb? While all kinds of industry adds cost for which the borough governing body holds residential taxpayers hostage. Even worse, as it blindly denies responsibility for unmet enforcement, public transit, and health and human service needs, and with what more debt for roads and schools waiting in the wings?