To the Supervisor and Board members:  

As a property owner in this corridor, I am wondering how is it possible for 19 individuals to impose a multi-million dollar project on their roughly 50 neighbors?

This is not even close to a majority!

I realize that you have been thrown into the middle of something that was supposed to be completed by now, but is dragging on into its eighth year.

On your website, under government, water and sewer projects, there is some fragmentary information only up to 2020, ending with the two final map plans and reports on 8/11/20, curiously printed under a C2AE letterhead. It includes a 60-page USDA letter of conditions to be met for its loans and grants, with the caution that these are available only as partial reimbursements for money borrowed for the cost of construction.

Section HI covers requirements prior to the USDA's AUTHORIZATION to advertise for bids.

Please at least look at pages 11-13, especially paragraphs 19 and 24.

A note at the bottom of the last page states that $30,000 had already been dispersed to cover "preliminary planning" costs.

So why, in 2021, was 2.5 million dollars borrowed in our name, without our knowledge or consent, supposedly for that same purpose?

Why was such a large amount allowed to generate nothing but interest for such a long time?

We are already being charged "utility bills" for non-existent services towards this debt repayment!

We already know that the projected costs, plus interest, are creeping up to $20 million, which is unthinkable.

A more "exact" figure is not needed!! Please reconsider your decision to push ahead with this doomed project.

It's supposed benefit of increasing the town's tax base was a delusional fantasy, but either way its cost should have been shouldered by all the taxpayers, not just a handful.

We have already been saddled with over a million-dollar debt for nothing.

It is high time to cut your, or rather our, losses, and put an immediate stop to this.

Increasing our debt burden at this point makes no sense and is totally unacceptable. 

I hope that you will take these concerns into consideration when making any further decisions.

Thank you for your attention.

Kinga Snell

Potsdam