Letter from Wendy W. Smith
Residents: What Viewing Platform
This is a follow up to my letter of last month, which was published in “The Freeman’s Journal,” regarding the proposed viewing platform at the end of Pioneer Street.
The biggest issue that I pointed out in my letter was the lack of transparency in the process undertaken by the village. In saying this I cast no aspersions, I simply say that the way the village currently communicates regarding projects as important as this one is not reaching people, and that matters. Before I sent my letter I had one or two residents tell me I was barking up the wrong tree and everyone knew about this project and the timeline. Yet after the letter was published it seemed that the average reaction from people in the village was “What viewing platform? I had no idea about it,” which seems to validate my original point.
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