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For the record: I tried with other citizens to get the committee to allow the Citizen Stakeholders to meet within the special committee to address the committee behind closed doors. I submitted a couple of brief overview summaries for consideration outside the closed sessions. The citizen stakeholders who served for years within the planning process and who had the most detail about actual events and documentation and research regarding this publicly challenged airport planning process and who were involved in creating the original list of citizen concerns were not represented on this committee. While the actions of the City Council gained several valuable considerations and concessions from the airport corporation, it did little to address the essential identified flaws of this federal airport planning process as represented in the Record of Decision. End result: the City gained some valuable local concessions and agreements, while the local planners avoided much needed and desired independent federal scrutiny of an openly challenged federal airport planning process. Not exactly an equal "quid pro quo". While the City Council's unanimous approval results in a few valuable local concessions, it did nothing to stop the citizen stakeholders from continuing to request a federal probe of this federal planning process, and those who appear to be manipulating it.

Raleigh Jenkins, SRC Citizen Stakeholder, at Large

Warwick

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