The Northwest Regional Planning Commission’s Ad Hoc Committee made no detail resolutions of anything. Every issue between the St. Albans Town and the Regional Plan, as identified by the Project Review Committee, was determined to be fixable by unspecified changes, sometime in the future, or ignorance, of maps and rules or the findings of the standing Project Review Committee of the Commission. They simply voted out of existence the issues that existed on the date of application between the town and Regional Plan.

I would recommend that the rules specifying the Ad Hoc Committee be deleted. The recent process was an obvious, blatant sham of democracy.

I would recommend that the Regional Commission, operating with Regional Issues would, at the very least, record their meetings on tape from which questions about the minutes could be verified, as is done for all zoning meetings in Bakersfield and, I presumed, at most planning meetings in Vermont. These were key, process meetings about which every attendee can remember what they choose because the minutes are summaries chosen to show the desired progress.

This form of process has no place in Vermont.