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Verla Insko said this committee didn't have the authority to make <br />appointments; that was the responsibility of the Commissioners. <br />Meg McKean said the map of Stoney Creek neighborhoods was <br />confusing. She said the map chops everything up into pieces and <br />some of the pieces were un- natural. <br />Verla Insko said the group was about half -way through the planning <br />process and the sense she got from the Commissioners was that <br />people could come to meetings and through their representatives or <br />themselves make their concerns known; but the Commissioners had <br />chosen not to change the makeup of committee right now. <br />Elio Soldi said the opinion of the Planning Group at the last <br />meeting seemed to be strongly in favor of additional <br />representation. He asked Insko is she would entertain an official <br />request to the Commissioners if the committee did not think it <br />disruptive and found it advisable. <br />Verla Insko said she believed an official request had been made and <br />the Commissioners had declined to put it on their agenda indicating <br />they did not want to add any more members to the committee. <br />Judd Edeburn said he thought in terms of consensus, a mechanism was <br />needed that would satisfy a group that may have concerns about <br />representation; some way for input so that when the group comes up <br />with a recommendation, as many folks as possible can buy into it <br />because they feel a part of it. <br />Verla Insko said she agreed. <br />Lee Rafalow asked what the group was going to do about the fact <br />that people on Bumphus road did not feel that they were being <br />adequately represented. <br />Elio Soldi said if the group intended to make a recommendation that <br />had any chance of being adopted and implemented, everybody needed <br />to be included. He said there seemed to be a strong feeling that <br />people in the community long before he was there, who had a history <br />in the community, and did not feel represented posed a great <br />problem. He strongly recommended opening the process to admitting <br />a representative from Bumphus Road. He felt that there was clear <br />evidence that as long as a group in the community did not feel <br />represented, anything the Planning Group did would be secondary. <br />He said the Bumphus Road residents could express their concerns to <br />committee members or come to meetings and express them, but that <br />was not the same as being part of the committee and that feeling <br />seemed to be important. <br />Bob Hall asked if the group could not re- affirm its previous <br />consensus that Bumphus Road had an official recommendation and <br />2 <br />