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Letter: Penticton mayor needs to question costs not blindly approve

Council approves $400K for lighting skate park and doesn’t ask single question about price
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Dear editor

Let’s get something clear, the tooth fairy does not contribute to the Growing Communities Grant Fund, it’s recycled taxpayer money.

Our money that Mayor Bloomfield claims to use wisely and responsibly.

In 2016, the then mayor Jakubeit handed over $233,000,without competition, for LED lights for all of the SOEC.

In 2023, the present mayor Bloomfield tops that mess with $400,000 for skate park lights and doesn’t even know what he’s buying.

A simple lighting project. And he doesn’t want to talk about it.

Why?

Lynn Crassweller

Penticton

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