Hear that sound? That is the sound of 330 years of history
going down the drain. I respect and
admire Don. He has only
one voice and
gets only vote. He can try to persuade the other managers but they seem to have
made their minds up already or else they would not have tried so hard to defeat
us. The BOIM is desperately lacking
funds due to over reliance on the lawyer. (We intended to replace him with a
pro-bono attorney) One member says that
she does not have the time now. When the
board is broke, she will have plenty of time.
But she is not the only board member.
Why were other members not working on these projects? I see where the
board is heading and it is not a good place.
I vacillate between attending the next few meetings and staying home,
like a little child hiding their eyes behind their hands at the scary movie but
peeking through to watch the killer chop someone’s head off. I say the next few meetings, because the BOIM
will not make it more than that without financial intervention and several of
the board members just insulted the only investor! That is, unless there were backroom deals in
the works. Is someone waiting in the
wings to swoop in and save the day? I
feel so hopeless that a great resource for the school children will sit there
untapped. Not only that but without the
BOIM and defend it, the state still intends to dump dredge spoils on the
island. That involves removing the trees
and defoliating the island. No more
birds, no more wildlife, no more resource.
I wish Don plenty of luck in trying to work with the inflexible people
on the BOIM.
