City should have used technology better

If the campaign had taken the technology we have paid for to give voters tangible information, the sales-tax extension could be sold. The city GIS department could have taken street department data, made a two-page spread of the streets targeted for improvement that could have been printed in The Gazette, instead of spending money on vague statements in fliers sent repeatedly to resident mailboxes.

The city could have asked the manufacturer of the removable flood walls to put together a YouTube video of how the system works, and the capability of installing them at the hour when wake-up to response takes place. Viewing it might instill confidence that I do not have in such a system now.

That is how I would have marketed the tax. Instead we are given much illusion like the TV show (did not like that either). Oh, and drop the word “option” since 25 total years is “permanent”.

Jack Guelff

Cedar Rapids