I want to compliment our new Mayor Lucy Johnson and Council member Russ Huebner for their refreshing ideas on financing city services expansion from savings instead of borrowed money. Fiscal discipline is a difficult goal in these days of credit-fueled spending sprees, but credit is only going to get tougher to get and more expensive as America gears up to pay the piper for the spending binges of the last two federal administrations. A city like Kyle that sustains itself with a tight belt will have a far better credit rating down the road. Kyle’s business growth will mean more revenue coming in and we, the people, have enough sense to appreciate sanity from our leadership and will have patience.

City Manager Mattis has a right to be concerned about his budgets, but the right course is to expand as we can pay for it. We have lived with small-town services and tight roads for years, and we can survive them a little longer to get out of the interest trap.  It’s the right course for every family, and it’s the right course for our city.

Don Wilde
Kyle