Dick Garrett runs for Chandler City Council
By Nathan Straus News Reporter

Dick Garrett

Some things are not right in the City of Chandler, Chandler citizen Dick Garrett said.

"Things are out of control when the people that elected the City Council have been forgotten," Garrett added.

Garrett hypothesized the city has made enemies within the city by making laws without the people's best interest in mind.

"They passed a burning ban that created hardship on a lot of people," Garrett said. "Burning leaves is easier than sacking."

Garrett also said he believed the people of Chandler are unhappy with the city's trash service, Sanitation Solutions.

"Some people in Chandler made a living collecting garbage, " Garrett said.

Garrett cited a passage from the Declaration of Independence, written in July of 1776. The passage reads "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness".

To meet this end, Garrett said he will run for the open Chandler City Council posichester tion in the election in May.

"If I am elected I would give people more say in the government," Garrett said. "We (the council) would make a difference, and wouldn't get out of touch with the people. If something is important to the people of Chandler it's important to me."

Garrett added he knows every concern can't be met, but he would try his best to make the people happy.

Chandler city spending has also reached extremely high levels, Garrett said.

"It's almost taxation without representation," he added.

One of the main reasons Garrett said he is running is because he would like to make the City Council a source of good news.

"It seems like now people are just talking about what's happening at the City Council," Garrett said. "I don't want it to be a form of gossip."

Garrett has lived in the Chandler area practically all his life. He went to school in Brownsboro and married his wife from Chandler, Wanda. They have been married around 50 years.

"Chandler has always been good, there are good people there," Garrett also said.

Dick Garrett is one of several people running for the three open council positions.