In Your Opinion: Open Space Committee Is Not Just Open Space

March 19, 2025 Speak Out!

By Bill Connell, Somerset.

I am a citizen member of the Open Space Committee, and I would like to talk to the good citizens of Franklin.

Tuesday night, March 18, the Township Council reviewed the 2025 budget for Open Space. While discussing increasing the Public Works burden on the fund by more than 50 percent, Mayor Phil Kramer implied that the Committee has a tendency to resource-guard like dog with a bone. Every time Council takes money out of our annual budget, we get snippy. To that I say, that is why we are there. We stand between the fund and the ideas, and challenge the need and the cost. Thank you Mayor for the compliment.

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