{"id":48847,"date":"2013-08-05T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=48847"},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:17:23","slug":"upset-with-comprehensive-plan-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=48847","title":{"rendered":"Upset with Comprehensive Plan Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Brookfield Town Board sat before a packed house at its regular meeting July 8. Most folks attended to speak on the topic of the town\u2019s proposed comprehensive plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/E-23-2013-mccmc-Letters.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48848\" alt=\"E-23-2013 mccmc (Letters)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/E-23-2013-mccmc-Letters.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/E-23-2013-mccmc-Letters.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/E-23-2013-mccmc-Letters.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Brookfield, NY \u2013 Aug. 2013) I am very upset regarding the June 26 Planning Board meeting. I was unable to attend that meeting; let\u2019s start at the June 6 Planning board meeting, which I did attend.<\/p>\n<p>The comprehensive plan was presented by Marylou Rhodes, chairwoman of the Planning Board, and Karen Beehm, co-chairwoman of the Comprehensive Plan Committee, for all the members to review and bring suggestions to the June 26 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting was adjourned, I asked if there was any person sitting at this table who was \u201copposed\u201d to the Comprehensive Plan.<\/p>\n<p>There were none.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting was adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>In review of the letters to the editors in the local newspapers dated July 3, the true story of the June 26 meeting was printed. I am so disappointed in the actions of the Planning Board members and their conduct at the meeting \u2013 unspeakable.<\/p>\n<p>There is NO EXCUSE for their outbursts.<\/p>\n<p>With all that being said, let\u2019s get to the heart of what I want to say.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, a lot of labor by many hardworking volunteers from our community has gone into the Comprehensive Plan development for approximately four years. All of a sudden, close the book with the comprehensive plan: NO WAY.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s all listen to \u201cthe other side of the story\u201d in a public meeting with the Comprehensive Plan Committee and ask everyone who lives in the town of Brookfield and cares about their community to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The comprehensive plan is very important for the future of the town of Brookfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachael Owen, Comprehensive Plan Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brookfield Town Board sat before a packed house at its regular meeting July 8. Most folks attended to speak on the topic of the town\u2019s proposed comprehensive plan. To the Editor: (Brookfield, NY \u2013 Aug. 2013) I am very upset regarding the June 26 Planning Board meeting. I was unable to attend that meeting; [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-48847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-cHR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48847","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=48847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}