For the town (notice that I'm sounding like it's our adversary rather
than our beneficial partner), after a third vote winning a puny majority
and tax dollars spent to broadly advertise and justify the water
project's importance, to take it as a broad mandate for going forward is
a joke. Bringing up the same matter for a revote until it finally
passes by a slim margin is not democratic, it's democracy by attrition
at best.
By what reasonable measure does drilling into a property owners' well
shield, and thereby drilling into their well, not constitute stealing,
or the appearance thereof? I, for one, don't want to be associated with
this act. I am also on record for being opposed for other good reasons
as well.
Since the project's initial cloudy conception, the cart has been put
before the horse. I thought that all of the agreements would come
together before taking on the town's most expensive project in history.
Instead, and this is a direct question for the select board, just how
many of our valuable tax dollars have been wasted on fruitless
litigation? This is a scandal.
I hope that the town will move, with its hat in its hand and with
reasonableness and common sense, to reach a legal accommodation with the
offended parties. Please, stop wasting our tax dollars. The pipeline to
nowhere, indeed.
Thank you, Chris.
Craig Keown
Waitsfield
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