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Citizens of Newfane: You have all received a white card in your mailboxes from the Selectboard regarding the proposed Newfane Town Charter hearing and voting dates. I realized that there was no mention in that notification of the hearing that took place Dec. 11.
Maybe that's why only about 25 citizens came to the hearing that proposes a momentous change in the way our town will be governed forever.
Why did your Selectboard think it prudent to go through the trouble of convening a “committee” to not only “research” why this would be beneficial to the citizens of Newfane, but to go ahead and actually write up a final copy (without legal counsel), set up an (Australian-ballot) vote on this document that will forever change the way we are governed, and to do this in the depths of winter with little fanfare or notice?
We should be discussing the implications of imposing a “forever” charter, not to mention possibly taking an honest look at the underlying issues and other, less onerous, solutions before we go ahead and write a document and attempt to pass it quickly and quietly.
