 Hi, my name is Steve Altschuler. I'm running for Longmont City Council in the at-large position I'd like to tell you why I'm running for City Council. First of all, I'm a constitutionalist I believe in the First and Second Amendments. I'm also a free market capitalist I've had my own business for over 35 years. I know what it is to have to manufacturer products, sell a product, install a product, stand behind the product Nobody on City Council right now has any of that experience They have their own pet projects where they want to take the money from people that are working hard To give to other people and in my opinion, that's not what our government is supposed to be doing Our government should be protecting us with fire and police and maintaining roads It is not the government's responsibility to be in the housing market There are other companies that can do that Right now our Longmont City Council wants to spend 12 million dollars of taxpayer money to tear down the YMCA I think that's ridiculous By the way, I also don't think that the City Council should have ever owned a recreation center a Recreation center even though I enjoy going there. That's for the free market people can come in buy the property build the building Government doesn't need that what you have to realize is if there are a thousand government jobs and 2000 public service jobs Everybody needs to be taxed 50% to play to pay for the salaries for the government workers You need to have less government workers and more private sector workers One of the ways that the Longmont City Council is not helping The citizens of Longmont is for instance with property taxes right now. We're about to have a 40% tax increase Longmont City Council has done nothing to help lower that amount Because if they get 10% of the property tax bill or 20% I don't know the full number They just got a 40% increase. So they're looking out for their own coffers. If you look at real estate City councils all across Boulder County have arranged for builders to have low-income housing But if they don't want low-income housing, they can give money to the city in lieu of low-income housing That's called extortion, but that money goes into their city coffers that they get to use on pet projects I would like to see the City Council manage the city and not Corrupt the city to go for all of their pet projects Again, my name is Steve Altjuler. I'm running for Longmont City Council and I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you