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To the editor:
I hate to pile on about Cape Coral mismanagement and overall incompetence but the failures are almost comical if those failures weren't funded by taxes and borrowing in our name.
For months, several neighbors tried to get the hyacinths cleared from Lake Kennedy. We called the county hyacinth commission which always cleared in past with herbicide to kill the growth.
County told us Cape Coral requested the city take over the function and would get a contract to do it.
We contacted the city, which was not going to kill the growth but harvest and compost, and introduce 3-foot carp into the lake to eat them.
When they finally showed up it was hysterical -- two guys in a skiff with one on the bow cutting the flowering part off with a hedge trimmer. (Really. I have a movie of it.)
The cuttings were not harvested at all but left to float under residents' docks to rot and smell.
And lo and behold one week later they are back on the surface and blooming again.
Repeated calls to city went to voicemail with no return call.
So we paid the county, which did this in the past, and now paid the city to award a contract and now it looks like we did not get the same level of service -- so my call was to stop the check for payment because again this was another city epic fail and everybody in the decision matrix still has a job and we pay them also.
Tony Cosenza
Cape Coral