Common sense

It seems the CUMTD and the Village of Savoy are still at war. The MTD wants to try (again) to bring about a truce between the two parties.

According to the News-Gazette, CUMTD head Bill Volk has proposed peace talks and an agreement that both entities can work with.

After the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District board heard a personal appeal from Savoy Mayor Bob McCleary, MTD Managing Director William Volk proposed yet another truce with the village.
Volk proposed that the board direct its attorney to draw up a new version of an agreement with Savoy and that the district ask its own lobbyist, Mike Hoffman, and the Illinois Public Transit Association to suspend efforts to create legislation that would allow the Regional Planning Commission to approve the annexation of communities like Savoy.

Unfortunately, there are too many egos and too much plain, blind stubbornness for any agreement, any cooperation, any common sense to happen. To hell with what's good for the people, what's good for the area and what's good for the businesses, let's just continue yelling at each other. It's so much more fun. And after all, that's what governing's all about, isn't it? Getting your way and calling each other names. Just like a bunch of 6-year-olds.

Savoy Village Board member Joan Dykstra called Volk's proposal "too little, too late" and said she still intends to have the Savoy Village Board vote in December to create its own mass transit district.
"The Champaign-Urbana MTD has stalled and put us off long enough," Dykstra said on Wednesday evening. "If we don't act in December, there isn't enough time for us to react to the next thing the MTD wants to do to us."

Nice, Joan. I want MY agreement, and I want it NOW! NOW! NOW!

Or I'm gonna go off and throw another little tantrum.

It's simply stupid to have two or three mass transit districts in the same contiguous community. Ridiculous. Pathetic.

Sure, a lot has been made, with good reason, about the arrogance of the CUMTD board. Yeah, Joan, they ARE arrogant. Bullish and boorish.

But have you looked in the mirror lately, Savoy? Are you really looking out for the future of Savoy and of its people and its businesses. Are you really governing?

Or are you just throwing another little tantrum? Tried holding your breath yet?

And so it goes.