Editor:
I was in awe of all the work and research that went into the 60 plus presentations to council at the School Road supportive housing hearing on Oct. 17. There must have been hundreds of hours of citizens’ time spent so they could make their five-minute presentations to council.
During the break I checked out the submissions that council received before the hearing. There was a three-inch binder filled with hundreds of pages of submissions. I was overwhelmed. I realized that there was no way the mayor and council could have read them all. Then there is The George, Gospel Rock, Oceanmount, etc. – all contentious proposed projects in Gibsons that must have generated that much or more correspondence for each project.
I then knew why all the emails I sent to the mayor and council about an important neighbourhood issue had gone unanswered and the issue hasn’t been addressed.
I felt sorry for the mayor and council. They must feel so overwhelmed.
I was impressed with the presentation by the previous mayor, Barry Janyk, passing his experience in office to the new mayor and council. His message to council to make sure they take all the citizens into consideration with their decision sounded good to me.
David Hayward, Gibsons
