It is long past time for State Sen. Lloyd Smucker and State Rep. Mike Sturla to step up to the plate and go to bat for Lancaster City.
Sen. Smucker’s predecessor Gib Armstrong, working with Rep. Sturla, put out an incredible amount of effort to provide more and more State funding for the downtown hotel and convention center. This project was billed as a way to help save Lancaster City; however, the lost real estate tax revenue from the site, combined with the project’s additional burdens on city services, has helped to create this fiscal crisis.
It is imperative that Sen. Smucker and Rep. Sturla put out at least as much effort toward providing operational funding for Lancaster City as the effort that was put out to fund the taxpayer-financed hotel and convention center project.
Sen. Smucker and Rep. Sturla, it’s been done before. NOW is the time to do it again!
