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Dear Mary,

It is unfortunate that you have not been active in your community's financial and budgetary processes . If you had been, you would understand that the former mayor has greatly jeopardized our community and its fiscal soundness. There is much more to responsibility other than being responsible to a party or a person. The responsibility is to the community, its fiscal soundness, its stability in the future, and the ability to make sound decisions for the tax payer. Avedisian made sound decisions for Avedisian.

I would invite you to look for yourself at the budget documents as they are all available on line. Do you think that it is reasonable that in 2 years the city budget grew by 18 million dollars? Is it reasonable that virtually every line item for services to the taxpayer have been cut while salaries, benefits, and pensions continue to skyrocket?

Have you looked at the data to see what the unfunded liabilities are in this city? I would expect not, because if you had, you would not be making the statement that you made in your letter. Are you happy with your property taxes and your auto taxes. Please don't give the example that "our taxes are lower than Providence" as I don't believe in justifying poor behavior by citing examples of worse behavior. But that's just me.

Keep your eye on the news.