To the Editor:<\/p>\n
(Madison, NY – March 2013) As an advocate of wind power, but worried about having gigantic industrial machinery around peoples\u2019 homes, I\u2019ve heard talk that Town of Madison public servants, people we elected, are not acting on a \u201cwind law\u201d to protect our Town.\u00a0 So I read the proposed law, and attended Planning Board and Town Council meetings to see for myself.<\/p>\n
The proposed law establishes compromise setback distances that protect citizens unwilling to sign leases, and also those willing to sign leases.\u00a0 Four February and March meetings revealed that Board and Council have done nothing to discuss or approve the report submitted in January with unanimous approval of their Wind Advisory Committee, appointed by the Planning Board that is appointed by Town Supervisor Ron Bono.<\/p>\n
The Planning Board is hampered by failure of members to attend meetings\u2014members appointed by Supervisor Bono.\u00a0 The Board agreed to a workshop to discuss the proposed law–including Town Council, Wind Advisory Committee, and open to the public.\u00a0 But, without explanation, Super Bono announced no joint meeting will occur.\u00a0 The Board instead will have a workshop without the Council and without the Wind Committee who wrote the proposed law.<\/p>\n
Less expertise and less communication are better, Mr. Bono?<\/p>\n
Citizens attending meetings are obviously frustrated that nothing is getting done, public discussion is being stifled, and bullying is masquerading as management.\u00a0 I have no confidence that Bono is capable of leadership to enable the Town Planning Board and the Council to address important matters.\u00a0 When is the next election?<\/p>\n
Scott Kraly, Town of Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the Editor: (Madison, NY – March 2013) As an advocate of wind power, but worried about having gigantic industrial machinery around peoples\u2019 homes, I\u2019ve heard talk that Town of Madison public servants, people we elected, are not acting on a \u201cwind law\u201d to protect our Town.\u00a0 So I read the proposed law, and attended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[13383,13391,18064,23395,21046,23166],"class_list":["post-44207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-madison-planning-board","tag-madison-town-council","tag-ron-bono","tag-scott-kraly","tag-town-of-madison-ny-news","tag-wind-advisory-committee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-bv1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}