yack host's blog

This just gets screwier and screwier, people.

You will recall back before the Land Bank met in August, Dreamland Executive Director (Who is also the Selectman Chair), Patty Roggeveen announced days earlier that she would be making a proposal to the Land Bank, in which the Land Bank would pay $2.5 million in exchange for a seat on the Dreamland Board and a fraction of an acre of the Dreamland Lot facing the Easy Street Basin so that they could create a pocket park.

I seemed to have forgotten about another conflict, real or perceived, that our current BOS chair has been involved in. 

Perhaps it's luck. Perhaps it's gender. Perhaps the people of Nantucket just don't care any more about the mounting conflicts (with an "S") both real and perceived that our current BOS chair has gotten herself into. But for some reason the sheer preponderance of eyebrow-raising moves have failed to raise any kind of public outcry. 

You know, I'll be the first to admit that Carol Dunton was not a viable candidate for the Board of Selectmen when she ran this past Spring. She was wildly inexperienced. She was terribly unprepared for the race. She did not have enough supporters and she was completely clueless about the issues that face the Board of Selectmen. 

But I'll say one thing for her. She sure does want the town to control spending.