Letter to the editor
On Jan. 5, our household received a large postcard announcing the completion of the Potter/Ellis roadwork project, as I am sure all of Cherry Hill did.
The announcements were sent by First Class Mail at 44 cents each, not to mention the cost of the card and printing. Assuming a low estimate of 50 cents per Cherry Hill household, I calculated $21,000 for the cost of this mailer.
More than likely, Cherry Hill was not the only community notified, and so the cost is, no doubt, many times higher. In view of the fact that at the same time The Cherry Hill Sun and no doubt The Courier Post provided the same information, we cannot understand why this expenditure was necessary.
Anyone who travels that location knew that it was completed — and no one else would really care. The card provided the fact that “the completed project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.”
So, we suppose that since the money had been allocated, some bureaucratic decision-maker saw no reason not to spend the balance foolishly. At a time when all homeowners are struggling to pay the highest real estate taxes in the entire country, our hard-earned money was just wasted, in our opinion, and we must say that we’re outraged.
It seems that this may be the “tip of the iceberg,” so to speak, and we suspect that that there are many more examples of such extravagance.
Stan and Shirl Abrams
