Reject Charter Revision

To the Editor:

Being a dedicated volunteer, an unpaid volunteer on a board or commission is not easy. Every decision, every action annoys someone. Thankfully most people are, if not appreciative, at least courteous and polite.

What a couple members of the Charter Revision Commission lack in understanding they more than make up for with their uncontrollable rudeness. They have carried on as though their seven or eight month activity was the only thing happening in Newtown and certainly the only thing of any importance. But again they are wrong. After all, another charter revision group could be convened at any time the council wished. My point being that the charter revision was only one of many things to concern the council and to consume our time. We, like all the boards and commissions, are unpaid volunteers with jobs, families, and numerous time-consuming concerns.

This town and the council have had many equally and more important matters to deal with; in the last year Queen Street properties; culmination of the five-year effort to get 5/6 school off the ground is far more important to many; the annual budget and to all of us truly the prime important matter of Fairfield Hills.

Many of us gave up vacations, business trips, etc. to cope with all the serious matters of real concern during the last few years.

The council steered a clear course, enabled our bond rating to improve, refinanced older high interest bonds, kept the mill rate stable, gave our honored senior citizens, fire and ambulance volunteers a tax break and many, many other things far to numerous to mention. The town is running well. Leave our government alone.

Please, please, please, if you love Newtown vote NO on questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pertaining to charter revision on November 6th

Melissa Pilchard

6 Poor House Road, Newtown                                     October 9, 2001