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AUGUST 15, 2008 THEPRESS.NET | 17A
Letters from page 16A
any changes to past actions. Just agree
to follow the law and it all goes away …
what’s so hard about that?
The vast majority of civil litigation
is settled before trial but the CSD refuses
to consider a resolution for this simplistic
case. A judge already ruled that the case
has merit and a trial date is set. Money
will be spent at an increasing rate unless
the public demands the CSD behave
responsibly and engage seriously in
settlement talks.
When I saw the Aug. 6 CSD agenda,
I was surprised to see that a review/discussion
of the town’s recent 10,000-gallon
raw sewage spill was not listed. This
was the largest spill in town history and
one of many that have cost the town several
hundred thousand dollars in fi nes.
This is an important topic that
was relegated to the end of the general
manager’s report, which was at the end
of a very long meeting (most attendees
had left not knowing if the topic would
be addressed). Yet on the agenda for the
second meeting in a row was the vindictive
issue of a historical assessment of
how much it has cost to process letters
from the public/Bill Richardson.
When a town government has, in my
opinion, its priorities this wrong, I see no
see Letters page 18A
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