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9/1 8:45am
To Mr. McFeeley,
Your answer is just what I suspected. Were you a member of the church when
you voted to have it plowed? Times have changed since 1983, Mr. McFeeley.
Now teachers and librarians are being let go at the schools, public works
projects languish in numerous areas for months on end around this town,
and the Town plows the parking lot of St. Judes? From a vote cast in 1983
with you and a board member who lived across the street? How many other
antiquated and unknown arrangements in this town drain our tax dollars?
And, you thought that such places deserved a "reciprocal handshake" because
of their usefulness to the community? How many of the recent laid-off
teachers recieved a "reciprocal handshake"?
While some have argued triviality on this issue, many drops fill buckets.
Think about that. Perhaps instead of plowing the churches, the money could
have been used for public safety, to rehire a teacher, or some other
critical function to the growth and betterment of Norfolk.
I'd also like to hear your definition of "community". To me community is
supporting local businesses, helping neighbors, volunteering your time to
help others in need, actively working with the town's young people. So don't
deal the "community spirit" card to me in your defensive posturing.
Community is also stopping our tax dollars from being wasted, and to stand
up to those who waste.
Is your definition of community taking our tax dollars and selectively
helping specific religious institutions? Such institutions should be able to
afford their own expenses. And the line about public safety issues and the
church parking problems does not hold any sympathy with me and other town
taxpayers, its the 3rd excuse this week. Plowing and using traffic police
are separate issues.
[. . .]
Your unabated comments add more about the state of affairs in this town then
you can imagine at this time and I thank you for making it public. Its the
first real answer, although a troubling one, since this dialogue started.
You were wrong then as it is wrong now. [...]
- MON
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