Dear Editor,

Vote, the silent voice that can adjust incompetence! My concern is Gilpin County’s monetary solvency. When reading and hearing about the expenditures predicted for the county, I am concerned about the deficit calamity. Spend more! Secure grant funding—the pie in the sky expenditure payment plan that is being sold as free! Grant solicitation is a fanciful notion, ludicrous concept, and an illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.

Plans being discussed for additional expenditures include increasing personnel count along with associated salary and benefits, building new facilities, replacing machinery or vehicles, accomplishing studies to substantiate monetary disbursement, calculating cost-of-living adjustment (comparison to surrounding communities much larger than Gilpin) to retain employees, and the list goes on and on.

I am voting for Marie Mornis because she is trying to hold the line on spending and focusing on successful outcomes. Her fiscal responsibility (applying discipline, leadership, experiences, education, and integrity) and concerns for prudence (income versus expenses) are worthy of my vote. Marie Mornis for Commissioner District 1.

Connie Sassé-Price, Gilpin County