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This author would like to point out that the Mount Gretna Borough Secretary and Council President have proven that the Mount Gretna Borough's budget--and the reporting shenanigans, that I pointed out to borough citizen's 5 years are, in fact true.

Back in 2007, when we first purchased a house in the borough, we witnessed several elderly residents' complaints to Council President Charles Chuck Allwein ignored. Every year at the Homeowners Association annual meeting, and at several borough council meetings, we watched many elderly persons bring their concerns to Allwein and to the HOA Board and BOTH would acknowledge the complaint in the meetings and then completely ignore the person and their complaint.

Feeling complete dissappointment in our public officials' failures to treat their constituents with any degree of respect, I started researching how things--politics and elections, worked in Mount Gretna. When LebCty Republican Party Co-Chair and HOA Board member Kathleen Kathy Snavely found out what I was researching, she "reported" it to her fellow republicans, including David Arnold. Arnold took that information and, at a January 2008 staff meeting, asked his staff to brainstorm a way to criminally prosecute the "two women living as lesbians in Mount Gretna". Snavely continued to present herself as a helpful Board member, though, while really conspiring with her party allies to stifle any discovery of their bad behavior and thieving.

Despite the secret efforts to stifle discovery of their bad behavior, I found stuff--lots of stuff. And what I found shocked me. Short story: I found out that Mount Gretna Borough doesn't have any public infrastructure--all the property within the borough boundaries are privately owned. Nevertheless, I also found out that the Borough had a Public Works Crew that siphoned around $250,000 a year from our pockets.  Umm---a public works crew that works on a non-existent public infrastructure....

Stay tuned--Chapter Two out next week