Well residents get ready. Your city manager and members of city council are not ready to give up yet at trying to pick away at your wallet. Sources inside city hall and in key areas involving evaluation of cuts are telling us that council and Szerlag are going to try and grind you into submission.

Here is the proposed unofficial plan and after we post this all of them will deny it and try to disguise it but here is the bottom line. They don't want to conceded defeat in reality. Instead this years budget as portrayed by Mr. Lenivov and members of Troy Citizens United is not as perilous as we were led to believe by the vote "yes" camp, but the strategy is to slowly begin cutting hours and services at the library regardless of the financial situation and other "quality of life areas" in an attempt to creat frustration among residents and make them question the 'No" vote in hopes that by the time the real budget troubles start in 18 months, they can begin hitting you with ala carte millages. Oh you want the library, we will take a millage for that and the friends of the library are already on board with him on this. Eventually it will move to all the remaining items and before you know it city council will have hoped to break the spirit of the people, out spend the "No" camp in hopes of breaking it apart and in the end achieve all that it wanted and more.

Residents it is high time that residents rise up, join together and stand tall. This council and manager have no intention of following your directive. What we see now is a smoke and mirrors surface attempt with the real strategy going on behind closed doors. Recalls are inevitable now. Certain members of council must go, there is no other option. It was our hope that when this millage was defeated that council and Szerlag would see the writing on the wall but the utter defiance that existed before the vote has only intensified after the vote within the walls of city hall. What council members are targeted need to be defined sooner than later and efforts put into motion before this group can get too far moving on their attempts to undermine the vote.

Residents be active, become vigilant and contact the Oakland County Tea Party and Troy Citizens United and become a part of the solution. Troy Citizens United has a facebook page under their name, join and start taking back control of your city. It is clear that Council thinks its their city to run as THEY wish.