Lakewood Residents Speak, Comments During the Last Board Meeting – Part 1

Popping up on my screen every once in a while during the Tuesday night Lakewood Village Board meeting were messages from residents.

Between now and the next Board meeting, you’ll be able to see what people were saying during the meeting.


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Lakewood Residents Speak, Comments During the Last Board Meeting – Part 1 — 2 Comments

  1. This is better than counting sheep.

    mental midgets on parade.

  2. There is a difference between Public Comment and Q&A.

    I do believe there should be a Q&A, but it does not belong in the Public Comment portion of the agenda at a Village meeting.

    Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion, however, facts, protocol, and the law do matter.

    What happened to due process, proper investigation and the truth?

    If there is mistreatment or harassment within any work group, it should be officially reported, first hand and through the proper process, not through a shoddy survey that was orchestrated unilaterally by one trustee.

    This loose canon, vigilante approach is actually a disservice to anyone who may have been harassed!

    These types of accusations need to be taken seriously and handled professionally in order to have any chance of holding people accountable for their actions and to protect the village from legal exposure!

    Anyone who has even the most basic corporate experience should know this.

    Instead, one trustee has single handedly made a mockery of our Community.

    According to Trustee Younge’s statement above, after being informed that his meeting request was in violation of the Public Meetings Act, he replied that his son (not he) had sent the invite (to select trustees, not all) to meet privately.

    Did his son also draft the meeting appointment and populate the invitee section with email addresses of the select trustees to be invited?

    How did his son know which trustees to invite and which to exclude?

    Maybe Trustee Younge’s intentions were good, maybe they weren’t, but there is no doubt that his actions have been unprofessional at best and possibly in violation of the law, putting our village at risk of law suits and dividing our community.

    The personal attacks between members of our community are childish, embarrassing, and unproductive.

    We should all take a breath and look objectively and rationally at the facts as they become available and try to see the forrest though the trees.

    It’s easy to jump to conclusions and take sides, it’s much harder to control emotions, put personal differences aside and make an educated decision.

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