Our New Town Hall

Well, if you attended our Town Hall Public Hearing tonight, you know that a great many people came to the meeting and many signed up to speak. One participant even commented on the similarities to the Friday Night Farmer's Market bread line! The wonderful thing about our Town is that so many people are willing to step up and have their say. I may not agree with what every person said but I defend their right to get up and express their opinions. As long as we are all talking to one another we can find areas of commonality and we can work with that! Will our new Town Hall please everyone? Of course not! That's an impossible task and we shouldn't expect our Town Council and Mayor to be striving towards pleasing everyone. That's a sure recipe for governmental gridlock. We voted for the people that we thought would do the best job (at least I hope we did!). We need to express our opinions, do our best to persuade them and then let them do the job we voted them in to do -- make those tough decisions on behalf of all of us. I am trusting that they do not make those decisions lightly but only after close examination of all of the facts available. I also trust that they use their intellect and carefully examine the present and future needs of our community. Will they make mistakes? Probably. Last I heard, God wasn't serving on any governmental body and since He's the only perfect person, yes, mistakes will be made. The true test is how those mistakes are handled. It was great to see so much citizen paarticipation. If only we saw that many people at every single Town meeting, our Town would be the richer for it. Get involved and vote! It gives you a right to complain! ;-)