Dear Editor,
Citizens have been telling ousted Commissioner Denis Pitman and Commissioner Don Jones since 2021, NOT to privatize MetraPark management, and/or that they should have a third party evaluate private vs. public management. Pitman did not listen. Instead, he pursued a course of action to secure private management for his and Jones’ preferred contractor, OVG – a company located in California. Pitman constantly claims that he is for open and transparent government. Yet his words have been repeatedly betrayed by his actions to secure the contract for OVG. After consistently saying that this whole idea and pursuit came up last summer, he was recently quoted in the Gazette as saying, “This process is the completion of something I’ve been working on for years.” read more
