By John Estridge
To the taxpayers and residents of Brookville and neighboring environs
I am a member of the Brookville Town Council, and for that I want to apologize to everyone.
It is probably the most dysfunctional governmental entity in the world up to this time, and that is including the U.S. Congress.
But I have to ask everyone to bite the bullet and attend the next BTC meeting. It is a special meeting that was supposed to be just for the approval of the historic district map, which looks like it will be Main Street from 3rd to 10th streets.
However, a three-male group on the BTC, Curtis Ward, Chuck Campbell and Earl Moore, have placed another item on the agenda. They are going to unseat Bridget Hayes as president and put Earl in her place.
I have dubbed the three males as The Three Stooges, and I personally believe they have more than earned that moniker. Against our attorney’s recommendation, they changed our Rules of Procedure to make the term of the BTC President at six months instead of one year. This is ludicrous for many reasons, continuity is just one of them, but they did it so they could take Bridget out as president and put Earl in as president for the first meeting in July.
However, our Indianapolis attorney, which costs more taxpayer money than a local attorney, told The Three Stooges while they could change the Rules of Procedure, they could not make the change retroactive. However, they discovered they could replace Bridget without having a reason as to why they desire to make the change.
That means Earl gets to live his dream and become BTC president.
For the life of me, I do not understand the desire to be BTC president. One person on another matter about a different person who we believed wanted to gain control of Brookville and Franklin County said if that person were to gain control, what exactly would he have?
And I totally agree with that for that situation, and I agree with it for this situation.
I guess there is a desire in some small minds to be a big fish in a little pond.
However, these actions and the prior actions the Three Stooges have been doing at BTC meetings do nothing to help the residents, the taxpayers, and those beyond the town’s boundaries that are negatively affected by problems currently besetting the town. We, as a council, could be trying to solve those problems. We should be working for the residents and taxpayers and not putting ourselves and our personal agendas first.
But that is what two thirds of the Three Stooges do, they put their personal agendas first. I think the third person just does as he is told.
Please be at the special meeting. It is 7 p.m., Thursday, June 22, at the Government Center.
Thank you,
John Estridge, unfortunately a BTC member.
Apparently, you have never been to College Corner, Ohio, lol. CC, Ohio has a horrible council/mayor, filled with nepotism, civil rights violations, etc. Hope you guys get your mess figured out! We are trying to fix ours.
As a reporter I believe I attended one meeting on the Ohio side, but I think it was in the 1990s if I remember correctly. However, as a reporter, I attended several West College Corner council meetings. All of the council members from that council that I covered were always concerned about their constituents. They had very little money, but they tried to do the best they could for the residents and taxpayers. Not a one of them had their own agenda, they did not want to enrich themselves and they were not drunk on power.
Sounds crocked to me