ACTION ALERT! URGENT!! Send the City an Email Today!!
What YOU Need to Do:
Send an email and add james.brigham@columbusms.org the City’s Treasurer to realcolumbusmatters@gmail.com (so that we can maintain an opposition count)
Subject Line: Debt Protest
In the body add: /s/Your Name, Your Address and and copy:
As a registered voter in Columbus, MS I write to provide notice that I am against the proposed issuance of the Bonds or the City Bond or the authorization of the Loan approved by members of the City Council in June 2023.
Feel free to add any more thoughts you would like to include but ensure the above statement is included first.
(the /s/) is an electronic signaure
Be sure to tell every adult in your household to participate (18 year olds count!)
Paper correspondence can also be submitted but please remember to notify us at realcolumbusmatters@gmail.com so the count can be tallied.
1,500 registered voters is all it takes to block the City’s debt hole from getting deeper!! (The City is over $30million in debt and wants to Borrow more money.
The Scoop:
The City has no current financial statement but the Parks & Rec Director and the Regime Reminders (none of whom are financially literate) want the City to Borrow $3 Million. The last available financial statements from 2020 show Columbus had a record high amount of over $30 million (up from only $8 million in 2010) in irresponsibly spent debt.
The Councilperson from Ward 1 said, she doesn’t know what else you can do if you need money other than winning the lottery or borrowing it. How about Earning it?
There are about 15,000 registered voters and about 2,500 in each ward. This is achievable!
If the 1,500 protest notifications do not get filed by Thursday, JULY 13, (the City does not work on Fridays) members of the Columbus City Council will burden the children of the City (if they don’t leave) with repaying the debts of their grandparents.
The City advertised this in The Packet and the Mayor admited it was a bit “convoluted.” The Dispatch reached out to two attorneys who benefit financially from the City borrowing more money and they (not surprisingly) said an email doesn’t count. But Columbus Matters reached out to an attorney, with no vested interested and got another opinion. So send those emails in!
