Re: Granite City Council, You have got to be kidding! Archived Message
Posted by Opie2 on June 29, 2016, 2:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Granite City Council, You have got to be kidding!"
That's a good point Mr. Chris. Unfortunately this should have been done decades ago. More unfortunately were the small minded, short sighted officials who didn't want to let go of their piece of the pie. Remember when we were know as the "QUAD-Cities"? Had the powers to be set their egos aside Granite City, Pontoon Beach, Mitchell and maybe even Madison could have been one big city. Imagine the bonding power, the ability to receive motor fuel taxes and grants. The Granite City mayor at the time only wanted a power base of voters he controlled. The Mitchell firemen didn't want anything to do with becoming employees of Granite City. Pontoon Beach, well we all know what was going on out there too. Developers would have eaten up the opportunity to work with us. I'm afraid it's too late but do very much believe as Elcooksta, that we should eliminate so many pockets of government.
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