Surprise, more taxes! It’s great that the value of our home of the last 47 years has increased quite a bit. The problem is we won’t see any of that increase until we sell it, but the city is taking its percentage now. Right now us senior citizens have enough to bear with the prices of everything going up. The city has already raised water rates recently. How much more do they think we can pay? Based on the figure in the Gazette’s Nov. 14 article [“City’s property taxes set to rise”] the increase is 7.5%. Ouch. Our social security raise for next year is only 3.2%. Where will it end? It’s time for the city to take a long hard look at their spending! Remember they are supposed to be “public servants.” Not the other way around.

Mark Frost

Florence