The Economic Development
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7-13-23
Residents:
Would you
be kind enough to ask all the Commissioners and the Township Manager,
Richard Manfredi , to remove the Economic Development
Feasibility Study and the Economic
Development Corporation ordinance from tonight’s agenda because they
have not gone to a proper Committee meeting and been properly vetted.
The Ordinance was not supposed to be created until the Feasibility
Study showed residents that it was viable and in our interests.
Instead, it appears some individual has already decided that --- has
created new text for the ordinance and put it right on the agenda for
a hearing.
Please
copy and paste these emails to send to all the Commissioners and
insist they be removed and properly vetted before being sent on to the
full Board for action.
This is a dangerous, dangerous precedent to set, to allow this to
stand.
rmanfredi@abingtonpa.gov
;
thecker@abingtonpa.gov
;
Matt@mattvahey.com ;
kbrodsky@abingtonpa.gov
;
drothman@abingtonpa.gov;
jdiplacido@abingtonpa.gov
;
jvaughn@abingtonpa.gov
;
jbrowne@abingtonpa.gov
;
swinegrad@abingtonpa.gov;
lorihenryforward8@gmail.com
;
dczapp1@verizon.net ;
jcarswell@abingtonpa.gov
;
spiegs@abingtonpa.gov;
bbole@abingtonpa.gov ;
loriforroslyn@hotmail.com
;
tbowman1999@aol.com ;
Gmail may take
the version with commas
rmanfredi@abingtonpa.gov
,
thecker@abingtonpa.gov
,
Matt@mattvahey.com ,
kbrodsky@abingtonpa.gov
,
drothman@abingtonpa.gov,
jdiplacido@abingtonpa.gov
,
jvaughn@abingtonpa.gov
,
jbrowne@abingtonpa.gov
,
swinegrad@abingtonpa.gov,
lorihenryforward8@gmail.com
,
dczapp1@verizon.net ,
jcarswell@abingtonpa.gov
,
spiegs@abingtonpa.gov,
bbole@abingtonpa.gov ,
loriforroslyn@hotmail.com
,
tbowman1999@aol.com ,
1)
How is it possible that a major, major document – the one enabling the
much decried over a period of several years – the
Economic Development
Corporation ordinance is
to have NO PRESENTATION ................no place where questions can be answered and
has gone right to an agenda to accept it with none of the answers
given to residents who asked questions before it was crafted – even
though they were told their questions would be answered?
2)
It was supposed to be presented to the residents
to DECIDE if the Econ Dev Corp was a good idea.
How did
that get decided already ? The
residents who took their time to care and show up and read it, urged
AGAINST having our Commissioners become developers
3) There isn’t even
time to read the superlong superlong
Feasibility Study in the days that we had. The agendas were not posted
on Friday as required so
we lost several days. Many didn’t get any notice from our
Commissioners that it was even on the agenda until late Sunday night
so that gave us only 3 days to even READ all of this. Some STILL
haven’t gotten a heads up from their Commissioners.
The Feasibility Study is not
even highlighted on the website homepage.
3 or 4 days notice is not appropriate and doesn’t leave any
time to fix such a problem
4)
Aren’t Ordinances required to go to committee meetings first?
Or a
Planning Commission session?
There should be public vetting of any FINAL version of any
ordinance or study, shouldn’t there? Who decided thede were finished
and “final” and sent them on to the full Board for action? What is the
name of that person? And there should always be a place for us to get
questions answered. The
LAW doesn’t require it – the CITIZENS do .
How can this be happening? It would be a dangerous precedent
to allow this to happen this way.
5. Having 3 minutes to speak BEFORE any presentation on
what the Feasibility Study or the Ordinance contain is
completely against our interests and contrary to Sunshine Law
requiring a REASONABLE opportunity to address items before a vote ( as
we have told Commissioners about
the Working Session rules many
times . There is no way it is reasonable to have three minutes
to speak on 100 or more pages with multiple other matters also on the
agenda. 3 minutes
to speak BEFORE any presentation is given or any
questions are answered is clearly not sufficient for ANY matter.
Click here for the link to this page
- Please share it with your neighbors & friends
(the link is shown below)
https://www.abingtoncitizens.com/aaISSUES/EconomicDevelopment/UnscrupulousTactics.htm
