Letter: 'No Good Deed Goes Unpunished'

The following post is a letter to the editor submitted to Durham-Middlefield Patch. If you would like to submit an letter, please email ronald.derosa@patch.com. Or you can post your letter in our blogs section.

In response to Irene Angiletta’s letter about abuse of power and open meetings.

In a Town Times letter to editor on 10-11-2013, Irene Angiletta references the book “The Garden of the Beasts” — which is a political thriller about Hitler’s rise to power — she points out that abuse of power was her motivation for writing a letter to editor that stated that “The Middlefield Lake Beseck Ad Hoc Advisory Committee is abusing its power when it no longer meets in a public place easily accessible to all, but, rather in the home of the Chairperson Amy Poturnicki on Pequot Rd.”

Dear Irene,

I would have welcomed a neighborly call to help answer any of your questions about our last meeting. It was a LEGAL meeting that was posted to the public via the Town Clerk’s office, as you were made aware through the FOI contact generously provided by the Town Clerk. The notice included the meeting address; was easily accessible to all and had plenty of available seating. All were welcome and greeted with a warm camp fire and a large Dutch oven of homemade chili waiting over the coals.

The annual Lake Environment campfire meeting is one of the ways I show appreciation for the committee’s hard work and dedication as well as a way to make meetings fun and down to earth.

I welcome your written apology to our committee.

Sincerely,
Amy Poturnicki, Chairman
Lake Beseck Ad Hoc Advisory Committee