Protest

I attended my first ever protest on Monday. The event was the "groundbreaking ceremony" for the new sewer plant.

There were about 15-20 of your friends and neighbors holding up signs and peacefully observing the ceremony.

Council members Cuevas and Hernandez participated in the shovel exercise. Former council members Dressler and Smedley were also in attendance. That is the extent of the city residents attending in favor of this plant. The rest of the participants were the consultants for Boyle, American Water and others who will be profiting from the venture.

Ms. Cuevas said that she was there on behalf of the "other 15,000 citizens who support the project." She wants to dismiss the many responsible, hard working and in some cases lifelong voting residents of Fillmore who are giving up so much of their time and energy to help the city come up with a cost effective solution - for FREE. If you are opposed to this expensive endeavor that will drain the economic resources of our community for the next 40 years you don't matter.

That's very sad. It's such an eye opener for me. When I started going to City Council meetings about a year ago, it was with the wide-eyed idea that our City government wanted citizen input and involvement. That they wanted to bring all voices to the table and work on solutions to the problems and issues that we face as a community. I was willing to offer support and organize more volunteers on behalf of the city. Isn't that what every city wants?