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Ii feel badly for the Jam Lady as I feel she is being
manipulated and used by the gang from the past.
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The gang from the past is very much intact and making their presence felt in a dozen different ways. The Jam Lady is no shrinking violet.
The Environmental Advisory Committee is teetering. Meetings last twenty minutes. Hardly worth reserving an evening.
Susan Walmer at the last public planning meeting, urged Council to refer the Draft Tree Cutting Bylaw to the committee. for their review and advice.
It was after Council had spent upwards of two and a half hours hearing what everyone who chose to attend the meeting had to say and engaged in debate ourselves.
Like the Environmental Advisory Committee would be better qualified to deal with the tree bylaw than the body elected to make decisions. That woman has some nerve.
There is real irony here.
First, the first Committee recommended the town hire an environmental engineer. The town did. Added $100,000 to the annual budget for the purpose.
Asked what might be accomplished; answer .... "identify environmental initiatives"
Every year at budget time,I would ask what environmental initiatives had been identified. The question would be greeted with a look to indicate I might,unbeknownst to myself, have horns growing out of my head.
Last year , the last Environmental Committee presented a Master Environmental Plan which was adopted by Council
Now we have plan and an engineer which leaves no further need for intervention from an advisory committee.
Now the committee is feeling unwanted and unappreciated. .
It is understandable.
On their advice , we have totally bureaucratized the town's environment.
It seems to me that there are a number of individuals who are "environmentally challenged" as well as mentally deficient.
ReplyDeleteThat is to say that they carry buckets of banned pesticides and herbicides with them, sprinkling some of each on all those they meet who are not members of "the gang."
It is time that these people are banned from all committees pertaining to the town, even banned from entry into the town hall.
This may seem like a drastic suggestion, but it might work.
The very mention of the name of any one of these demented creatures makes me want to vomit.
"This may seem like a drastic suggestion"
ReplyDeleteNah, just another stupid one.
"...makes me want to vomit."
ReplyDeleteClean-up on Aisle 4!
Sorry, 2:39 PM
ReplyDeleteNo one can be banned from attending meetings. If the will is there, you can take your own little group and try to counter-act the more weird notions that get put forward. But you do have to put up with their show-&-tell. The councillors chairing the meetings have to regain control and that has to come from within. If they are willing to be bullied, it cannot be because they do not recognize the fact.
"Ii feel badly for the Jam Lady as I feel she is being manipulated and used by the gang from the past".
ReplyDeleteI don't; she should have the balls to just say no. If she can't or won't say no, then I have no choice but to assume she is 100% complicit.