*** EMERGENCY ***
from
John Cushman
Dated
11/18/06
On
November 21st, 2006 at 9:00 AM in the Suffolk County Legislative Building
on Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge, NY the Suffolk County Legislature
will hear, consider and vote on IR-2123-2006.
This bill IR-2123-2006 introduced by Legislator Kate Browing
is supposedly intended to create an impartial fact finding search
committee to see if there is an alternative site that can be used
to relocate the Suffolk County Trap & Skeet Range from its present
location to another. I say supposedly because Ms. Browning, the Parks
and Recreation Committee or any member of the County Legislaure has
had a number of years to simply write a letter to those in charge
requesting an inventory of all land available in the County that could
be used as an alternative to the current Suffolk Trap & Skeet Range
location. My question is why hasn't anyone bothered to do just that?
Moreover, I made this same suggestion any number of times before at
and during the numerous hearings I have attended. While I have no
objection to looking for such a location, I do object to certain language
in this bill. Specifically subdivision 5 of the 2nd, Resolved,
that portion of the bill that says the Legislative Representative
from the 3rd, Legislative District (Ms. Browning) is to have the power
to appoint an individual who currently lives adjacent to the existing
range. The makeup of the rest of this search committee is supposedly
composed of neutral people concerned with reviewing a list of all
land available and each ones suitability to becoming a Trap & Skeet
Range. It is my opinion that the person appointed by Ms. Browning
cannot and will not be neutral and will be there to simply to create
friction among the committee people and bring a degree of anger and
frustration to the proceedings. I firmly believe that the committee
would function much better without an adversarial person on it which
is what I believe this person would be. After all, this person would
be the only one there who would have a PERSONAL stake (gain)
in the outcome of any deliberations while the rest of the committee
would be concerned only with the facts.
I hope all of you attend and make it clear that if this bill is passed
it should only be passed if amended to exclude subdivision 5 of
the 2nd Resolved.
John L. Cushman
Semper Fidelis (always faithful)
Semper Vigilante (always vigilant)
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