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Taxpayers AGM set for Saturday, June 28

by Meg Olson

When the voters association came together for their annual meeting in March, acting president Beverly Griffiths was worried she might not get enough community members to pull together a board of directors. Now it’s taxpayers association president Michael Rosser’s turn to worry. “I’m a little concerned,” he said.

At their June 4 meeting Point Roberts taxpayers association board members prepared mailers for their June 28 annual general meeting and discussed agenda items and how to tackle lackluster community participation. Like the voters association the group is seeing its membership dwindle.

While the taxpayers association has more members than the voters association, encompassing several local neighborhood associations, they are also having a hard time recruiting members to serve on the board. Rosser said he hoped local taxpayers, whether or not they were association members, would attend the meeting and consider serving as board members. “We need to know what’s going on in their minds and how we do that is to have them on our board,” he said.

Rosser said organizations like the taxpayers and voters associations helped bring people closer to their neighbors and work toward common goals. “That’s why the new subarea plan stresses things that build community,” he said.

On the agenda for the annual general meeting are trails, sewers, trees and the economy. Rosser, working as part of the economic development committee has submitted a proposal to the county for a trail loop connecting Monument Park and the port of entry with the commercial core.

The board is also asking members to endorse use of the group’s legal defense fund to compel the county to enforce tree retention rules. The meeting starts at 10 a.m., on Saturday, June 28, at the community center.

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