BAD GOVERNMENT HITTING MUSKEGON COUNTY
Let's get this email to everyone in Muskegon County! Please pass it along!
The Secretary of State wants to move essential government services to the very edge of Muskegon County.
This mistake would be more than a minor inconvenience. It would be government at its worst: Destructive, wasteful and completely unnecessary.
DESTRUCTIVE?
The plan calls to close Muskegon County's Whitehall and Apple Avenue locations and to consolidate them on Sternberg Road.
That would force a large portion of the County's residents to make an hour-long (or longer) round-trip every time they need to visit the office. That'd bad enough for most of us, but what about those who NEED that access the most?
The County's poor and its senior citizens--the people who rely on those services the most--may find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible to make that long trek.
This proposal would be a disaster whose primary victims would be the very people government most needs to serve.
WASTEFUL?
The new Sternberg Road location would be within ten miles of another unit, right across the County line.
Ottawa County has three offices and moving the Muskegon County offices right to the border would do nothing but create a wasteful overlap.
While it would inconvenience and aggravate the rest of Muskegon County, that particular area would have more access than it needs!
The goal of consolidation is supposed to be efficiency--do you see anything efficient about that?
UNNECESSARY?
There's NO real up-side to the currently planned method of consolidation.
The Sternberg Road location is approximately the same size as the centralized Apple Avenue spot. There's 100 square feet in difference!
And the savings? Well, if you are willing to believe the Secretary of State's own numbers, this plan would save only $32,000. That wouldn't be enough to justify the change even if we didn't have a choice.
But we do have a choice!
Meanwhile, the owner of the Apple Avenue location is willing to beat the Sternberg Road bid. That's right--keeping the offices where they work and belong would actually be CHEAPER.
Please pass this email along to anyone and everyone in Muskegon County. We still have time to prevent this consolidation from happening.
While you're at it, feel free to let the Secretary of State know what you think.
Let Terri Lynn Land know how you feel about wastefully moving services farther away from the greater population and those who need them the most:
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