Prioritizing Local Services: Small Town Servicing in Elm City

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Local services offered in a town or city should always be the number one item on the town's agenda. From trash pick up and repaired pot holes, to overhung branches on town owned streets (not owned by Department of Transportation) or an aging infrastructure. One's personal political affiliation pales in comparison to real matters of daily living in the town of Elm City, NC.

The processing of citizen's legitimate concerns within their locale takes good ole-fashioned love, tact, respect, and as grandma would say, "Treating your neighbor right because God is always watching".

Local governing authority should ask themselves, "Do we allow our personal political affiliations to come between town services and the people we serve".

In an interesting article written Aug. 01, 2021 by Michael Williams (PhD, ICMA-CM) entitled "Keeping Political Partisanship Out of Local Government" he drives a thought-provoking point right to the center of every household. "As a result, city councils, county boards, and individual elected officials have been asked to adopt positions on a variety of political and divisive issues that do not directly pertain to city or county services".

There is a plenty to do in small town servicing to help keep citizens satisfied. The list includes reading water meters, trash and recycling pick up, water leak repair, street sign repair, clean outs, setting up for festivals, cemetery maintenance, mowing town owned property, etc.