Mayor Mack, Take Down that Parking Meter

Nut Mountain has but one parking meter. It appears on Main Street in front of the old Chinese restaurant and is frequently vandalized by angry citizens. It is more than a parking meter, it's a thorn in the side of this town.

Last year the meter brought in $1.25 in revenue. That's a little over a dollar, if you're not good with numbers. Even if you include the sixteen plus dollars in change recovered from the side walk that fell out of people's pockets as they attacked the meter, it's not a lot of revenue.

Fixing the meter after it was repeatedly vandalized cost taxpayers more than $2,300.00 in the last fiscal year alone. But the mayor seems fixated on keeping the meter in place, possibly to mirror Parkville's meter (which has never been vandalized but is much less attractive than our meter.)

It seems the mayor is determined to make Nut Mountain an urban metropolis. Soon he'll be building Broadway theaters and our own Times Square. Most of us don't want Nut Mountain to be anything more than the town we know and love. Overwhelmingly our 4,000 residents rejected Mayor McEnroy's two-stop subway proposal in the plebiscite last year. Thank God.

Mayor Mack has to wise up and take down that meter.