9:30 pm. Monday.
Selectboard met tonight. Short agenda....long meeting. Citizens had thoughts, and the chairman tried to listen when it came time that the citizens could speak.
And it went on too long. About 26 citizens attended, and 2 reporters. By 9 o'clock about 10 people were left. Those who left were tired and tired out. They felt not necessary.
This town has been in crisis for months and months. Now we have an opportunity to be out of crisis. We have elected individuals who are trying to make a difference in this town. They haven't learned that the voters are their best support. Just like we voters haven't become convinced that our elected officials and those they have hired are our best support.
We are all in evolution. We question motives and we question competence and we question private agendas and we question allegiance.
We are all going to make mistakes. We have not yet learned how to listen to each other.
Our transition board has individuals who seem determined to give this town their best; but what we have not discovered from each other is how we find what is best in each other. We the voters, the ones who pay the salary, the pocket cash, and the very reason they exist; and they, the ones who do on our behalf, who have their hands on the wheel of this great bus that is careening down the highway.
This is a small town. We are all of a fabric. It is dangerous to think otherwise. There are going to be choices.
