Posted by Dr. Ray Langston on February 7, 2011, 6:43 pm, in reply to "Pontoon Beach..."
Here is the originial post from Pontoon Beach's facebook page (which I don't believe is linked to Pontoon Beach government in any way, at elast there has been no claims as to such....
Pontoon Beach This is the deal folks. Our Village financials our DIRE, their having to steal from Peter to pay Paul .. if we can't maintain operation, our Village will be dissolved. We will no longer have our community .. instead we will be divided and bought up, some portions to Granite City .. maybe some to Edwardsville.
6 hours ago
I suggested a merger with Granite City if it ever came to that in the discussions on that status, since we already share a school district and zip code (and I forgot to mention library district as well to them), but the creator of that page, as well as some other Pontoon Beach residents kept insisting Edwardsville or Glen Carbon, I told them that very little of Pontoon Beach borders Edwardsville, and going into Edwardsville school district would send their property taxes sky high, but they kept insisting...
Is the financial situation in Pontoon Beach really that bad?