Dear George,

We want to thank Martha Wood for her good suggestions to City Council.

Most important is supporting our schools, especially providing early childhood education to enable our children to do well when they go on to first grade and after. .

Of course we need to support our police and fire and social service agencies as well as the semi-private agencies who help our citizens. We should encourage more affordable housing, more affordable child care, and a living wage for workers in all projects contracted out by the City.

We agree that scofflaw drivers must not get away with breaking our parking laws, and also with the freeing up of parking places in the evening and weekends which are not being used by police and court vehicles.

We are proud of the flowers and trees that make our City more beautiful and we thank our City Government for keeping them in the budget.

Jane and Eugene Foster, Charlottesville (electronic mail, January 29, 2004)