Stop wasting volunteers' time

The City of Sisters has wasted valuable volunteer time exploring ways to handle effluent from Sisters' sewer plant.

It was a foregone conclusion that the city would have to either irrigate a fodder crop or spray the forest. That's the only use the plant's permit will allow.

A citizen's committee researching disposal options didn't get that information until after they spent many hours on the project, looking into a golf course, bird sanctuary or cemetery.

Citizen volunteers take their work seriously and they shouldn't be used to give a false impression of public choice and input in a decision that has essentially already been made.

Sisters faces many issues that need real citizen involvement -- traffic is another one. If volunteers see their time wasted massaging foregone conclusions, they won't turn out when their help is truly needed.

We can't afford that.

J.C.