DID YOU KNOW?? YOU BAD, YOU BAD!!!!!

On Monday, August 12, the Town Board had a very contentious and lonnnnng meeting which did not end until well after midnight!

The first thing that I will report is the status of the Commercial/Industrial "work group."
It is no longer in existence.



"Work group" members Mark Ceminsky, Butch Hansen and Al Novacek addressed the Board about the more recent Open House which I reported on in the "Red Dots" post.

We heard things like: 

The attendees were "disrespectful."

It was "disgraceful."

The attendees were "intimidating" to others present who were in favor of C/I to the point that those in favor were "afraid" to put up their green dots, apparently for fear of negative reaction from others in attendance.

No one came to listen. They were not open-minded. They came to shut this down.

People said they didn't want "pole barns," but none of our posters showed pole barns! (They still don't get that, without sewer and water, pole barns, outside storage and truck depots are about all that would come.)

The planner was disrespected. Attendees tried to "take over" the Open House and the "work group" wasn't even allowed to present or explain.

Work group members were asked questions and then were not allowed to answer. (Maybe he was referring to the answer whereby it was stated that previous boards had done "nothing" on this issue and this was called out as "totally false.")

The planner couldn't even complete her report because she had been informed that attendees were putting "whole sheets" of red dots on the posters instead of the three they were to be limited to. (I don't know if that is true or not. I myself didn't get a chance to put up any dots as I was busy talking to people who were upset about this whole thing. I would have put only red anyway.)

That people in attendance wanted to take a vote to "shut it down" at the beginning before anything was even presented. (I think the person who suggested the vote stated that it would save a lot of time for everyone.)

People on the northern border now say they want to build houses, whereas before, they didn't want any more houses. (This is not true. I think I know the twisted, factually deficient, quagmire that this came from. No one I know on the northern border has ever indicated they were against houses being built there.)

And on and on and on. (You should hear the audio disc recording of these three bombarding the (rest of) the Board ! It's pretty unbelievable!)

Finally, a vote was taken. Barfknecht, Murphy and Palmquist voted to end the endeavor. Hansen and Ceminsky abstained. (They seem to do that a lot, even on issues they profess to care so much about. I don't get the point.)

Your attendance and input, your letters, your phone calls, your emails, your person-to-person conversations were heard by three Supervisors. In my opinion, the angry "work group" members who were so caustic to their fellow citizens will never "get it."

More to come on other topics from that TB meeting...