LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Waste Site Disgrace
Residents of the town of Rosetown and the surrounding area have a right to be informed of what’s really happening with their council and staff and their real values.
The Town of Rosetown made a written statement not to develop the land now being dug as a waste site as long as there was anyone living in our home. They have chosen to go ahead and proceed, knowing full well they are breaking that promise. This promise was recorded in documents at the time the first landfill was established, where it currently sits, but they refuse to take their promises seriously.
They also refuse to ensure the safety of our family by refusing to monitor water that may already be contaminated by the current cell due to leaching, as well as garbage littering the countryside, including our dugouts that we use for fish, which we would like to consume safely. They persistently neglect cleaning up trash on the road, as well as trash that escapes the fences, blowing for miles around.
In 6 months, we got 16 flat tires caused by travelling the road from our home to town, and we had to pay for all those repairs ourselves, even though it’s the location of the landfill that causes them. The average lifetime statistic is 5 in total!
Trash causes us to stop harvest and seeding due to it being tangled in machinery, with the potential to cause thousands in damages, let alone downtime every year, even after requests weeks in advance for them to come retrieve the trash prior to these activities, and it is their legal responsibility to do as such in a timely manner. They have no respect for our health or lives or the future of any resident at this property, which proves it is unlikely they have any care for any individual in their constituency, as proven by their actions in this matter.
A word of caution to all those that live in as well as surrounding the town of Rosetown. The current council, mayor and past administrator all acted on this dismissal of their predecessors' promises and took no care for whose lives they risked. Any agreement with these individuals has absolutely no weight, and they will force you into legal action, which they know most can’t afford, so they just do as they please. They refuse to pay for damages and labour that was a direct result of their negligence in removing trash and making sure the road is kept clear of dangerous debris. Every one of these individuals should be ashamed of themselves for their actions and stonewalling tactics in this matter. As citizens it appears that you are also not required to pay for things like the town deciding you aren’t cutting your grass or littering as those types of things are exactly the type they refuse to pay for when it’s them at fault.
Recent concerns from their own auditors, as mentioned in the Rosetown Eagle newspaper, should also bring into question the financials of the town of Rosetown.
If details and dates are so vague, where is the ratepayers' money, as well as any other funds given to the Town of Rosetown, really ending up, to whose benefit and for what reason? They claim that it’s always been done that way…so has corruption been a plague for just as long? I’m sure many are wondering the same.
Sherry Fensom
Rosetown, SK