Village Trustee Bob Pear has passed along the agenda for tonight’s Village Trustee’s meeting with a reminder that next week is the scheduled Annual Village Meeting March 20th at 7:30 at the Town Hall.
A couple items of note on tonight’s agenda: A request to sell raffle tickets at Village Meeting:
Woodstock Early Bird always likes to take Village Meeting civic duty seriously, focusing on the issues at hand and having the freedom to consider issues unencumbered by picketers of any type in order to vote in privacy.
We appreciate that candidates and campaigners are asked to stand at a distance from polling places when we have voted in the past and we don’t believe asking for money or donations in the form of a raffle — for whatever good charitable reason — at a polling place (or a Village meeting in which voters are expressing approval or disapproval for various measures) is appropriate.
If we know that we’ll have to run a gauntlet of salesman in order to gain access to a public meeting, it might hinder our desire to take part in the political process. We hope Village Trustees vote to maintain the dignity of the Village Meeting process and turn down this request.
For anyone else interested in an update on the Vail Field project, this topic is also on the Village Trustee’s agenda.
Turn out tonight at 7:00pm and turn out next Tuesday at 7:30pm.
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 