>…Instead of constant complaining and ranting & raving about abuses by our elected officials, how about offering some CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions about how to solve the issues we face:
-fields shortages
-late evening use of lights at fields
-imrproved effieciency of current facilities
-funding the continued preservation of our undeveloped areas
-funding of current field maintenance
Did you speak up BEFORE Habernickel was purchased to explain why it would be a major screw up? Or, did you speak up BOEFORE Village Hall was renovated to point out that the new design might flood and how it could be prevented? There are a small handful of people speaking up and acting NOW to offer thoughtful solutions about the issues above. You don’t seem to be one of them. Why not start being a part of the solution. Constantly complaining about what doesn’t work, without offering viable solutions makes you part of the problem.
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I am sure that you would agree that, when one is trying to solve a specific problem (such as a lack of field space and offensive usage of lights at some locations), simply complaining does not help.
The difficulty has always been that, when these issues come up, too many residents dig their heels in and insist that they will not tolerate one thing or another. Furthermore, they refuse to propose viable alternatives or consider viable alternatives proposed by others.
I don’t know how or why the renovation decisions at Village hall were made. Frankly, I am amazed that village engineers did not implement measures to address the flooding issue…like installing submersible pumps in the parking lot drains, which could automatically remove water when it reached a certain level, before flooding. I wonder if anyone proposed that.
I am not interested in rehashing an old Village Hall controversy…I AM interested in positive long-term resolution to the field related issues before us NOW. Do you have constructive suggestions regarding those? If so, I am sure that everyone would like to hear them.
On this blog in the past couple of months, a few people raised ideas about how we can maximize field layout efficiency, how to address fooding and poor field conditions, how to improve the usability of our current fields and how to address the noise and light polution with portable lights. Generally, the ideas have met with unrelated and unproductive rants and raves. Do you have recommendations about how to address these problems?
