Peter Grossetti wrote:J - I don't believe in conspiracy theories!
Betsy - Don't thanks me ... thank Shawn for posting it on his facebook page (and then scratch our collective heads as to why no other City Hall person/department has made it public.)
The initial Community Vision meeting back in February was billed as: an "initial worksession is an orientation to the Vision and is the beginning of an iterative process for public review and discussion." I'm guessing the May 14 session will be some sort of next step.
Peter
Conspiracy is nothing more than two or more people talking and making a plan. "To conspire."
It is not a dirty word, until the actions are either taken, or then regurgitated as now being
from "the community."
Lakewood, is ripe with long time friends with deep inbreeding, that forms the fertile fields
needed to take simple ideas and plans to the next level. When I look at many of our civic
leaders, I see lifetimes of these actions, and plans.
How they manifest themselves into the next level is always interesting. The simplest proof
of "conspiracy" would be the Downtown signage where the final sign actually appears in a
printed piece that was not just designed before the first meeting to see if we needed a new
logo for Downtown, but was printed and the artist died before the first meeting. I mean it
is hard to argue with that form of proof.
Recently we have the School closing meetings. Where the desired results were talked about
in detail by some of the players 5 years before the Phase 3 meetings. Then all through the
year long process, the deck and rules were reshuffled and reshuffled until no one but a few
could actually keep track. Finally when it still seemed the "committee was not going their way"
the conspirators in this instant made last minute calls for a whole new crop of "committee members"
to come forward to make sure "the right school was closed."
Ed FitzGerlad had CSU come in to do a study for what Lakewood needed. They met with
different people, at different schools. In the end a list was put forward though many of the
meetings ended up canceled. What was put forward, never was listed at any of the meetings.
Each group then believed it must have happened at the meeting they were at. Yet when
"Observers" gathered that had been at each meeting and compared notes, it became obvious
The deck was once again stacked.
So let's not be too naive here, history should help on our road to the future and help light
the way.
J Hrelc
Love the sign, can I buy them by the gross?
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Yowzah!! I've just been painted with a mighty wide brush. Can you narrow that down a bit?
