Who Really Pays for City Services?
The fiscal quandary in which the city of El Segundo finds itself should at least be instructive to others. A band of “development is always good” councilmen and landowners hoping to turn a fast buck have saddled our community with a passel of marginally occupied high-rises, traffic problems that will not go away, and a spate of large businesses that have assumed that the future will continue to be like it was under the former administration, a free ride on the backs of Standard Oil and the residents.
The truth is that someone has to pay for the services. Guess who.
FRANK LaROCHE
El Segundo
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