At the Village Board meeting April 12, Trustee Michael Towner read a statement saying that he felt the village planner position needed to be filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrookfield took two steps back by not having this position filled,\u201d Towner said. \u201cOur staff and their abilities are the foundation from which we build on. It is not always visible to the public until a sign goes up or a brick is laid. To say the position is not needed is just shortsighted. We need to be ready as the economy is improving and need this position to help us to lead for a better Brookfield.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a resignation letter, Beyers accused certain village staff members of \u201chaving no boundaries or respect for privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyers criticized officials and residents for their disrespect.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my career, I have never served such a disdainful and disrespectful community as I experienced during my time serving the Village of Brookfield,\u201d Beyers said. \u201cDuring my last year, it became increasingly clear that current and former elected officials, residents and press are more interested in continuing the counterproductive politics of the past than moving the community forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyers also said village residents did not value what was best for the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI now understand that Brookfield residents may never value what is best for the community, as the longevity of long-range planning in their minds ends with the next election or village negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyers said the only thing making her position \u201cendurable\u201d was the camaraderie of the staff and competency of the Brookfield Plan Commission. Beyers\u2019 salary was $70,571, and her insurance costs were $16,940.<\/p>\n
Ginex said Beyers\u2019 resignation would cause more work for the current employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeena did a significant amount of work on the (TIF district) car wash, so I\u2019m not going to say not having her here is not going to affect any planning issue,\u201d Ginex said. \u201cThe planing will fall on (assistant village manager) Keith (Sbiral) and I now. Development still has to go on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article from Distributed via Calling the move \u201cshortsighted,\u201d one Brookfield village trustee had some barbs to throw following the decision not to refill the void left by a former village planner \u2014 a void created amid harsh criticisms of officials, residents and the media. Brookfield Village Manager Rick Ginex said the village planner position, left vacant by Meena Beyers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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