The preliminary plan for WD5 is available at the town offices.

I have a nice map from the report that shows where all the proposed pipelines would go. It is superimposed on a USGS topographic base map.

I will inquire to see if this report can be made available electronically. In this day and age, if something is available on line it seems to be treated as if it were unavailable and even “secret”.

Yeesh.

Interesting and annonymous. I shall have to contact Phylogeny and see what she says about this more nonsense.

And when will we see the actual unembellished plan for WD5?

What they disagree about is whose fault it is that there haven’t been further meetings and whose fault it is that the first meeting was a shambles.

The public information meetings are part of the protocol of advancing toward a water district. You want the residents of a water district to get information because they will be more likely to vote for the district if they know what it is and how much it will cost. After all, they will own it when it is finished.

The village officials sent out a letter to all village residents in advance of the first informational meeting, inviting them to attend a meeting that was originally meant only for residents of the proposed district.

Because the village residents would be financially affected by the district while not actually being part of it, the village officially felt that their constituents were entitled to make inquiries at a public meeting.

There is an undeniable logic to this, but no one in the village government (1) acknowledged that they were horning in on another groups meeting or (2) made any attempt at the meeting to explain that they were piggybacking on an original intent. Rather undiplomatic in my view. And par for the course.

Let’s hope that with new personnel in place on the village side, we see a new approach.

Austic wanted to meet with the people in the proposed district.

When the board would not allow that then he agreed against his better judgment to having a bunch of people in the village attend too.

It didn’t of course work very well because the people in WD5 proposed area could not get through the maze question things. It would be ridiculous to think that one meeting could accomplish all things for the entire town but this one could have done wonders to inform those in WD5 of what was actually proposed without all the fear and embellishments brought by the likes of Krys Cail who pretty much dominated that meeting with a long harangue regarding Doug’s favorites and other nonsense.

So no one got much information and the ploy worked as intended. The meeting was a flop by and large.

Over many meetings people could actually learn things.
Those bored members think they have to be present at all meetings I guess but the information could have been presented to those directly concerned so they understood what was proposed but no one has learned this yet.

The purpose is to obscure and it has worked well so far along with preventing the public from being informed.
Except those of us who have taken time to read over and question the plan itself, (not some imagined idea of the plan) understand it and a couple of us apparently understand it far better than those members.
It is not rocket science really. But water is governed by gravity. Start with that. take the actual proposal to the public now in writing not ina meeting so they can actually look it over and formulate questions on the basis of fact not nonsense.

At that meeting, people in the proposed district were given as much time as they wanted to speak. Doug Austic tried to prevent others from speaking at all.

They ahve not allowed an informational meeting unless they can determine to audience foist and publish misinformation.

Same tactics used in federal government. I guess it is acceptable in all politics now to use bogus information to twist the presentation.
Creates much dissension and argument but not much positive progress only a mess.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Don Ellis, Roxanne Marino, and Lucia Tyler are seeking to get a more complete assessment of Water District 5 to the people of Ulysses, and you don’t trust parts of that assessment. Whether you trust it or not is a separate matter. It just doesn’t seem at all accurate to say that these three board members are trying to prevent the public from getting information about the Water District. In fact, what seems to infuriate you, Barry, is that they are trying to get out more information than what you’d like.

Sending out Mr. Austic’s “information” “as is” is leaving the job incomplete and circumventing the proper authority of the entire board.