Sign WECRD recall petition

Dear editor,

Mayor Rich Sykes has sat down with Western Elmore County Recreation District board members Judy Mayne and Art Nelson encouraging them to use our recreation tax dollars for city property and functions. Judy is pushing for a dog park, and Art is pushing for project at the Optimist Park rodeo grounds and other activities at the city owned park facilities.

The mayor also is considering a bond election for a year-round indoor swimming pool. We in western Elmore County, which includes the City of Mountain Home, are already taxing ourselves for a recreation building that will include an indoor year-round swimming pool. Money has been saved to the sum of $4 million to build what we want.

Instead, the mayor, city council and WECRD board members want to spend this money on dogs and horses and other sports. What about our children?

It has also been stated that this community would not use a swimming pool year round because we are into snow sports in the winter. This community has a large percentage of retirees who don't play in the snow or are snow birds.

We want a recreation center so we can take our kids, grand kids and great grand kids and all their friends to work off energy and have fun. We also want a swimming pool for them to have fun in and for us seniors to relax and work out our arthritic joints.

Dogs and horses should come after children.

We, the majority in this community, will continue to push for what we voted for. However, the public isn't allowed to make any comments at the public WECRD meetings.

We are not giving up and will continue to work toward our goals for a recreation center with an indoor, year-around swimming pool for western Elmore County, which includes the City of Mountain Home.

See you at the election polls in November.

— Vivian Meyer,

Mountain Home