Dear editor:

This Benny Marotta, Blair McArthur and Save Our Rand Estate (SORE) thing is getting out of hand, and at all of our expense.

Lord Mayor Gary Zalepa must resign now.

I have had enough of the Marotta fight and the expenses incurred forced upon the residents by town council, who, apparently, might be sued personally, including the next-door neighbours of the Rand Estate, who have used the SORE group for their NIMBY attack at the expense of everybody.

McArthur owns 10 acres with one house on site that is not used until Christmas, when one can tour and get a cookie before departing the property. Imagine one house on 10 acres, and nobody lives there on a permanent basis.

Both McArthur and Marotta are multi-millionaires, maybe even billionaires. One inherited his money, the other worked for and made his millions; set that aside for now.

The NIMBY millionaire McArthur has been riding on our taxes to pay for the fight against Marotta, who is trying to build more housing for people to live, and not simply to visit for an exchange of a cookie one time a year during the Rotary Club’s Holiday House Tour.

We have paid for this stupid dispute and it keeps on going.

Zalepa, who knows absolutely nothing about real estate or effective governance, has been saying that we have to pony up 10 per cent tax increases per year. No more, I say.

Get Zalepa out and put somebody competent into the role of the head councillor of this town for a change.

How acceptable is it for Zalepa to have allowed all of the other councillors to possibly have to defend themselves against serious personal lawsuits for something that need not be, all at everybody’s expense?

We have a dysfunctional council with an inept mayor at the helm. Get rid of Zalepa — I refuse to pay any more tax increases because of this dope.

Never mind how he runs public meetings: Arrogant, rude and disrespectful. We need a person with a civil servant mentality, not a goon. It has become so bad that Zalepa may have to leave town.

Peter Rusin
St. Davids