Scott explores Glen Alpine issues

TO THE EDITOR:

I learn more every day about why I never wanted to get into politics. I just sat through a town meeting where one alderman read a statement in which there are a few discrepancies.

When a group of us were walking the land at the proposed park, this person said the location was dangerous because homeless people were living under the bridge.

I told him, no, they were not. He said the holes dug in the ground were where the homeless keep their belongings. The holes were made by groundhogs that have been in Glen Alpine for 100 years.

Maybe he needs to spend some time walking around town.

He then stated we should take over Simpson Field. The county takes care of Simpson Field and everybody in Glen Alpine pays county taxes. Why take on the expense and add more city taxes?

He keeps referring to parks we have started as appeasing a few, yet 90% of citizens I have talked to want the park.

The people who got the grant to build the park are also sponsoring trash clean-ups in Glen Alpine, I have not seen him, but I have worked with some of his neighbors that truly care about our town.

He states that the town is in a rush to make a decision on what to use; the land recently purchased does not make any sense. The only thing some on the board have been concerned about is to make sure we get all the feedback we can get from our citizens for what is most important to them.

He then states that we had money to burn down a house. Not true. The house had caught on fire by accident several months ago. It was starting to lean toward the neighbor’s home. If I had been living there, I would have wanted it down before it fell on my home.

Previously on a group text he wanted to know how one man could keep somebody out of town hall. He was referring to me.

I found out that there were plans to bring back a police officer to do training. This officer had been disrespectful to several citizens, ran his patrol car into a ditch on Dale Street (never reported), and ran a patrol car into a house causing thousands of dollars of damage, then retired.

I did not think this was the right person to train anyone and I was very vocal about it. Being 75 years old, I am not as sharp as I once was, but I still know right from wrong.

In the world I grew up in, if you didn’t do your work, you lost your job — but not in the world today. No wonder everything is so expensive. When I was in construction, we had weekly staff meetings to address schedule and progress and help other crafts progress.

REID SCOTT

Glen Alpine Alderman