Mr Kadak,
Since retiring in 2005 from management consulting, I've worked with a small number of East Bay residents to try and bring some sanity to our local government. During this time, I've come to terms with the following reality:
1) You cannot make change by being on a town committee, or running for town government. Change is made by digging into hard numbers, reading through the details of what town officials are trying to pull off behind our backs, and making the issue as public as possible. Government watch-dogs serve an important public purpose.
2) Residents have limited "watch-dog" staying power. Even the fact that residents were drinking from one of the most polluted raw water sources in the state for decades (BCWA's Kickmuit Reservoir), this issue only attracted the interest of about 10 residents from the entire East Bay during the 2 1/2 years it took to shut the Kickemuit supply down.
The fact that the East Bay is now enjoying 100% Scituate Reservoir drinking water is based on the work of .02% of the East Bay population. Our government officials did not do this work.
If the best that can be expected is the interest of .02% of the population on any subject, you can now understand how our town officials read these statistics and believe they can get away with anything.
The blame for this sits squarely with voters who refuse to hold government officials accountable (I reference the last election results).
"We have met the enemy, and he is us" - Pogo, Earth Day, 1971
Thank you for taking the time to write.
Gary Morse
Barrington
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