The Vast Majority of City Leadership is not Worthy of the Citizens and Small Businesses that Continue in the City

The greatest efforts to keep this city going have occurred in the neighborhoods and among the small businesses that have remained committed to the community. Individual people maintaining and improving their properties with no help from the city. Folks with the effort, commitment, dollars and taxes we pay into this city deserve better leadership. What do the small businesses get for their commitment? A water rate increase. Why. Because the mayor and city commissioners say that they can afford the rate increase and thus, you can. It is not the one rate increase in which I have a problem , but the repeated increases in general year after year with no corresponding  increase in quality of life in the areas city officials can have an effect on. Was there any uproar from the city for the millions of gallons of sewage that flowed through the river with the 15 Mile Sewer Collapse? Nary a wimper. There needs to be a call for a federal investigation of this longstanding issue. Systems need to be fixed and if necessary folks need to be held accountable. There is constant complaining about stagnant revenues with no growth because we are a tax based landlocked city. The city will not think outside the box and sell the water front (with public access of course). The water front wherever there is municipal growth on water is largely enhanced by waterfront development and improvement. Denise Metzer is the only one I have heard talk about selling this prime real estate. You see, folks, we need people thinking outside the box. And we need more than Denise. The 7-0 and 7-1 votes should be rare if non-existent votes and especially when it comes to imposing a higher financial burden upon the citizens and businesses. There should have been much more disagreement. This is not democracy in practice but dictatorship or monarchy. One leader with yes people. We need to stir up the pot for the next election. We need new leadership, unorthodox to take Mt. Clemens to the next level.