IMHO, BRAZENLY ASKED...
Trustee Lynne Ruda questioned Schroeder’s decision to vote against the resolution.
...AND DUTIFULLY ANSWERED...
“I’m sticking up for the people that are against it,” Schroeder said. “Nobody seemed to want to listen to them. Nobody wanted to hear them and they were blown off … Those people have a voice in this village and I work for those people, just as I work for the other ones. I didn’t think it was fair they were being ignored.”
I note that the so-called survey was not unanimous in favor of the project. Bearing in mind that the governing authority is the VOL Board and not the VOL Politburo, it appears that the Mayor was giving a voice to those who did not, and do not, approve of the project.
Mayor Schroeder's vote and explanation, appears to have been a principled application of representative democracy Trustee Ruda. I invite Trustee Ruda and the governing click to join me and others who stood in opposition, to celebrate the grandeur of representative democracy, while it still exists.
We do not need minority opinions CANCELLED in the Village of Lancaster.