Wow...all that wonderful stuff in the Vision 2020...all those great projects happening in some areas of town...All Town Council's visions (see: ThinkChristiansburg.com). Then, on the other handthere are issues like:

• Citizens in areas where flooding has been a long term problem still waiting to see some progress.
• Citizens' hopes of having a farmer's market downtown.
• Citizens' hopes of getting traffic problems fixed.
• Citizen's hopes of getting sidewalks to connect neighborhood and provide a safe place for children and adults to walk.
• Citizen's hopes of having more small neighborhood parks.

This list could go on for awhile (the master list based upon the minutes of meeting since 2001 certainly does).

The problem is that while Town Council has 'suddenly' (so close to election time) decided to start doing things that they have decided are important to citizens, without citizen input, they may have picked the wrong things to focus on.

Do they really expect people to believe that this nicer things found in the Vision 2020 are going to be a reality in the near future when infrastructure is crumbling, vehicles are dying on the road, and a tax increase looms in the future?

Unfortunately, it look like Town Council is out of touch with reality. Of course, the 'Town Manager' sits there as someone for them to blame things on if things don't turn out quite right...but, they are the ones who give the Town Manger direction. He works for them, not the other way around. Either Town Council members are unaware of the problems in the community or they think that if they ignore them, nobody else will notice them.

An ostrich sticking it's head in the ground won't see the danger coming, but it will taste just as good to the lions regardless of where its head is located.