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Voice of the People: Keep Former Mayor Frank A. Gonzales Working for Us!

By Cynthia Ramirez, Colton Resident
October 29, 2014 at 01:51pm. Views: 115

As a former mayor in Colton for many years, the residents of Colton asked Frank Gonzales to return to office because our city was in a major financial crisis, the residents weren’t getting the services they deserved, the city was full of blight and empty abandoned buildings. In the last 4 years, Councilman Gonzales has used his strong leadership skills and experience, once again, to bring our city out of that major deficit, balance the budget, and increase our reserves to $3.2 million (as reported at the Colton City Council meeting of Oct. 7, 2014 and confirmed by the finance director). He has lowered our utility rates as he said he would and is working to lower them even more. The facts are when Richard De La Rosa was on the council, the utility rates were greatly increased and a utility tax was charged to the residents, 100 employees laid off and our libraries were closed. All to try and get the city out of a $5.5 million deficit with no reserves. There was no effective leadership on the council to prevent them from getting there, and none to get them out. Our young families and our seniors living on a fixed income were struggling to provide food and other necessities for themselves and their families. We cannot afford to go back to that! I don’t appreciate this small group, Citizen’s for Colton First (no credibility), intentionally filing a false complaint against Councilman Frank Gonzales and lying to the voters just to get their candidate, Richard De La Rosa, elected. Shame on Richard for not stepping forward when all the while he knew they were false allegations since he was the one in office at the time and also the one that asked for the speed bumps (city documented). Now everyone knows that Frank Gonzales has such a good record/reputation that you had to resort to lies and deceit just to get some votes. Councilman Frank A. Gonzales has, by far, the most experience and proven effective leadership skills to be our next mayor in the City of Colton.

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