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President’s Message continued

As far as the landscaping project is concerned, we have been residents maintain their homes and yards. We love the quite
told that work on the medians on Bayview Drive will be the tranquil and boating lifestyle of our neighborhood. Beyond
next phase and will get started in early November. We so our property lines though, what do we see? Cracked streets,
appreciate the funding for these improvements and continued unsightly leaning powerlines and utilities, that should have
attention to the maintenance. On Commercial bridge, signs been buried decades ago. Not to mention the inaction by
have been installed alerting bikers to yield to pedestrians. the city to enforce code compliance. The list goes on. As
Hopefully, these signs will be better observed than the “no Tom Brinkley mentioned in his committee report, “We as a
fishing on the bridge” signs. community need to make our voices heard and demand that
our leaders to represent the interest of each district and the
Election time is approaching! We may not have state income
tax, but we are faced with astronomical property taxes, city as a whole”.
high utility costs and insurance premiums. Most Landings Our District 1 Commissioner race is of particular interest to us
in the Landings. It is the Commissioner’s
office we work the closest with and that
should be representing our interests
and voice our concerns. I urge you to
be an informed voter, so take part of
the information on the flyer on page
14 and read up on our District 1
Commissioner candidates John Herbst
and Norby Belz. See Tom’s committee
report for more information.

We welcome more involvement and
advocacy from our member base to
keep our elected officials accountable.
Looking forward to another fun and
productive season!

Helena Cooper
President, The Landings
Residential Association

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