would you make a new law to allow anyone who didn't live in your town or village to sit on your decision making boards?
The Whitestown Town Board wants you to believe that they are making this law so that a current Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA) member who has moved to Old Forge can still remain on the board. Why? They herald the fact that he has sat on this board for over twenty (20) years and they couldn't find anyone with that experience. Well, if he wants to move, Town Supervisor Gibbs and friends, maybe its time you did find someone else. Why would someone even want to stay on a board and have to travel over 50 miles? What's in it for him? How often is the weather going to be too bad for him to show up? And do you think they're not going to pay him mileage? And this is the least of it.
The Town Attorney states that we didn't even have to make it a prerequisite to at least own land in our town...aren't we glad he's on our side.
If that is all there is to this, why make a new law, why not just make an exception for this one person. In the future, any number of people (developers, etc.) could be elected to the town board, hand-pick their own people to sit on these boards and manipulate the boards and the development in our town.
We need to stand up to the Town Board and Town Attorney Schmitt..tell them NO!!!
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