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Objects to new conservancy district

Aside from what we might have learned from the articles in the Carroll County Comet most of the citizens in Jefferson Township have been kept fairly much in the dark regarding the establishment of the "Jefferson Township Conservancy District" (JTCD).

As I view it, a relatively small group, namely those on the Carroll County side of the Twin Lakes, objecting to the inclusion in the much disputed Twin Lakes Regional Sewer District (TLRSD), have ordained themselves to speak for ALL of us in ALL of Jefferson Township and are about to create an equally confiscatory entity. The very thing they are fighting in the TLRSD, they now seek to impose to ALL of the citizens in our township. It's the same taxation without representation that angered our Founding Fathers.

I cannot see what earthly good the JTCD could do for me when I, on the very eastern edge of the township away from the lakes, was totally unaffected by the machinations of the TLRSD. No one from the group called "Monticello COPT, Citizens Opposing Phase Three," the founders of the JTCD, has seen fit to inform those of us whose eyes they are trying to pull the wool over.

Fellow Jefferson Township folks: Watch notices in the Carroll County Comet and attend any and all hearings and meetings on this issue. If you are not going to gain from either the TLRSD or the JTCD you MUST make your voice heard before the judge and the commissioners. Also re-read Mr. Mills' Letter to the Editor in the 7/11/07 Carroll County Comet.

At press time you have already missed hearings before Judge Don Currie and the Commissioners on July 16.
Dieter Hantschel
Rural Delphi