By Nicole Montesano • Staff Writer • 

Commissioners chided for opposition to parks, trails

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Megan

Berschauer and Starrett are twisting themselves in knots to avoid doing anything that could crack the door for the Yamhelas Westsider Trail to continue, and the fact that to do so requires them to block other perfectly reasonable parks projects in the county and in Special Districts where they have no official authority speaks volumes about their justification for blocking the Rails to trails project, too.

If you have to lie to win the argument, you aren't winning.

Charlie

Well I'm not voting for either of these 2 commissioners and probably not for a couple more of them!! I tired of our commissioners voting for themselves and not for the people that put the in in office!!

Jean

They are only motivated by campaign dollars...not common sense.

Patrick97132

New county motto: Yamhill County: Trailing Behind. Welcome to Yamabama y'all.

YamCoCan

Commissioners should be looking for outside resources to make local improvements, not blocking grants. This is fiscally irresponsible. Responsibility includes investment in maintenance and planning to avoid nonsense like the Crabtree Park debacle where the risk of minor repairs spurs discussion of selling off our already limited resources. Instead they complain about reading "long" agreements and "strings" (like reasonable timelines).

Instead, all three talk about property rights and imagined impacts while they enjoy their own expansive properties most residents don't have access to.

Quality of life will never improve for those living in Yamhill County as long as the BOC is made of ideologues instead of collaborative, creative leaders. Hopefully someone decent steps up to challenge LB in '24.

Wouldn't it be nice to hear about what positive changes they've made instead of projects they've ruined??

Rds

All these commissioners seem able to do is cancel projects that involve anything that might involve outside activities as they don't want people to think maybe the westside trail could be started up again. I sure hope county residents wake up and vote these jokes out of office. save our county!

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