Who we are and what we want..

Lets agree on some core issues:

The City of Corinth is a Bedroom community. As such, we seek the following fundamental rights:

A) We want our community, the citizens, our kids, our elderly and our property to be safe and secure.

B) We want our real estate property value to increase.

C) We want our tax money to be safe-guarded and spent wisely in a way that primarily benefits our community.


If we can establish that the above core principles are common ground for all the citizens of Corinth and for you, the reader, then let’s honestly look at how those core principles have been applied by our local government.

First, lets go back in time to May 21, 2009, to the last city council meeting. We had record-breaking attendance, a total of 47 citizens attended in hopes of saving Church Street and our tax dollars, On top of that, we had CBS news coverage. (http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=42437@ktvt.dayport.com)

What was the big fuss? Just a little stretch of country road with pot holes named Church Street. That night the city voted to uproot 575 old trees and to continue with their plan to sink 2.4 million of bond money into the project without any traffic study or earnest public deliberation.

The city's vote in favor of the project was in violation of core principles A, B, and C.

The general consensus among the citizens who attended was that the council had made their decision to approve the paving bid before open session began. We the citizens have no access to whatever formal or informal meetings occur between council members even though it appears the real decisions to spend our tax dollars and dictate policy take place in those meetings, not in open session.

To add insult to injury, council member Joe Harrisson justified his vote on an unofficial survey of 91 residents that he conducted. He said that most were in favor of the "improvements" to Church, but not one of those residents attended the meeting to confirm Joe's story. Joe's "unofficial survey" is just another attempt to undermine open discussion about issues that affect our well-being and safety.

It’s frustrating. And the Save Church effort is just the tip of the iceberg. Core Principles A, B, and C are systematically ignored by our mayor and city council. Look at the medical center across from City Hall. Look at the commercial development at Post Oak and I-35. Look at our city’s budget deficit. Look at the 6-figure salaries we pay people to ignore and betray us. Frustrating.

If there is a chance to save Church, then we will take that chance. But regardless of the outcome, this struggle to uphold the core principles stated above will serve as a reminder that our officials have contrived, deliberately and shamefully, to operate in a vacuum of secrecy and against our community interests.