EDITOR,

EDITOR,

EDITOR,

The city of Scotts Valley must maintain its financial stability and health. The magnitude of recent and past budget cuts, along with the associated layoffs, elimination of positions, furloughs and the siphoning off of more than $6.5 million of our tax dollars by the state of California, are facts that cannot be ignored.

EDITOR,

EDITOR,

EDITOR,

EDITOR,

In 2005, when Scotts Valley faced 12 percent operating shortfalls with virtually no reserves, the city asked voters to support Measure C, a temporary five-year increase in the sales tax. I was not on the City Council then but backed Measure C because I believed there wasn’t a credible alternative and that city leaders could be trusted if they said more revenues were temporarily needed.

August marked the 75th anniversary of Social Security in America. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, and the program has remained through the decades as one of the only certainties for the American workforce.