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In response to a letter to the editor, the title should be
fiasco, not fiscal, which usually relates to a 12-month period.
Also, the bike rally is really one and a half or two and a half
days as people come in on a Thursday or Friday and leave Sunday
morning. However, I also feel the city should make more money off
of it.
Most of the people going to Hollister Hills bring a lunch and
maybe make a fast food stop on their way home, so no money
there.
“In response to a letter to the editor, the title should be fiasco, not fiscal, which usually relates to a 12-month period. Also, the bike rally is really one and a half or two and a half days as people come in on a Thursday or Friday and leave Sunday morning. However, I also feel the city should make more money off of it.
Most of the people going to Hollister Hills bring a lunch and maybe make a fast food stop on their way home, so no money there.
After seeing what ‘growth’ has done, maybe we should have stayed ‘stagnant.’
Believe it or not, Hollister was doing just fine until it was discovered. We had new people coming in now and then and old people leaving one way or the other.
We had a City Council that was elected by the entire town, not just by districts. Each councilman was responsible for a department in the city, such as fire, police, water, etc. If they screwed up, we threw them out of office. We had a city clerk, not manager, and didn’t pay him $100,000 a year.
The town had some nice clothing stores and some not so nice, we had nice drug stores that tried to help, not fleece the customers. We had service stations that filled your tank, checked the oil and air and washed the windshield.
People trusted one another. The grocery stores would even ask if you wanted to charge it even if they didn’t know you. We didn’t lock our doors and windows and didn’t have a crime wave. The only gangs were “Our Gang” comedies at the movies.
We had a nice place to swim and picnic at Bolado Park, until we got a new manager from out of town who wanted to shut the pool down from his first day here and he finally succeeded.
We had good drinking water, our high school was big enough, our sewers didn’t back up and we had plenty of housing.
If our 9- and 12-year-old kids wanted to go to the mall, we took them to Salinas.
Believe me, it was a very livable area until we got discovered.”
“I would like to respond to the current situation regarding the City of Hollister and the pending layoffs of the city employees. I think it is a waste of money to bring in someone to help with negotiations, especially at $90 per hour!
Why doesn’t the city manager do it himself? Is he too much of a coward to have to face the people and tell them that their jobs are going to be cut? (I know you’re probably thinking the same of me because I am not signing my name, but it’s a political thing if you know what I mean.)
To me, by the city manager not doing the dirty work himself, is like telling those employees concerned ‘I don’t give a damn what happens and this is the way it is going to be done.’
Believe me, actions speak louder than words and this is a perfect example. Like the letter printed the other day said, the city manager is the one who came up with the bright idea, let him finish what he started!
I believe that there are a lot of people out there who feel the same way. This city definitely needs some new blood and hopefully during the March 2 election, we will replace all the current supervisors and get some new people in there who actually care about the citizens and aren’t in it for themselves. Too bad there couldn’t be a recall on the city manager position; send him back to where he came from!”
