Re. Editorial article "A municipal election issue"

I feel compelled to write to correct a couple of issues raised in this article.

Firstly, capital projects are generally defined as anything which last several years, so vehicles, paving, and major new construction projects are capital projects.

Thus re-paving projects, which are expected to last upwards of 15 years, are clearly capital expenditures.

Secondly, how these capital expenditures are paid for may vary.

However, repaving projects in the county, as in most municipalities, are paid for from current year's taxation they are not paid for with borrowed money which would push the repayment onto future taxpayers.

So these capital projects are done on a pay as we go basis. Gordon Gallaugher Mayor, Township of Mulmur

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I read in your last week's paper under the heading "A municipal election issue."

Although it's true that municipalities all provide for some retirement of their debt in each year's budget, etc., it is true that Amaranth had a debt of hundreds of thousands of dollars but that was paid off within a few years of me becoming reeve of the township and we have never had a debt since.

As a matter of fact we don't even have a line item in our budget dealing with debt reduction.

Bob Currie Mayor, Amaranth Township