This letter written to the editors of ACN papers.
An open letter to Councilmember Jeff Tasker:
Sir,
You proudly stated at Monday's council meeting that in the last 14 months the Morriss Road expansion project was on the agenda 31 times. That's nice but let's set the organization first.
You are an elected employee of the Town of Flower Mound. The citizens who attended, and those who did not attend, are taxpayers. In a corporate environment, that makes them your employers or managers.
Managers do not have to attend every meeting nor deal with every detail. That's what the employee is charged with doing. So Morriss Road was on 31 agendas. Where are all the minutes of these meetings? In corporate terms, where are your status reports? I receive mailed paper town newsletters, email town newsletters and subscribe to the bi-weekly Flower Mound Star and the Flower Mound Messenger. Nary a word until recently once the StopMorriss6 effort commenced and made an issue of the matter.
Until Kim and Holly Berg brought the expansion to my attention, I had no knowledge of it at all. It has been the best kept secret in this community. Kindly show me and all the other surprised citizens of Flower Mound the post-meeting reports of this project and we'll all owe you a public apology. Until then I am highly suspicious probably my nature from having grown up in NYC where "don't ask, don't tell" is a way of life that something funny was going on all this time... of course I have no proof to show but not having anything to show seems to be ubiquitous on this matter
Lawrence Jermyn
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I love how you take all of your personal responsibility and put it on Mr. Tasker. Should he show up at the voting booth to cast your vote for you too? If you were asleep at the wheel when all of this came up, take responsibility and start getting involved. It is not too late. But I think it is really low to expect the councilmembers to know how you feel on any of the numerous things that come before them, if you don't make your voice heard. They don't work for you- they serve you and 67,000 other citizens with differing opinions (without compensation or benefits, I might add) and your input and theirs is essential when things are brought before them. It might be a good idea to check the town's website every other week and look up the agenda and read your water bill inserts. Even with hundreds of signs all over town, only a few thousand will vote. The breakdown is not with the communicator, there is communication, the problem is no one is paying attention to it.
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