Darlene, 69.71 percent of this community voted to remove you from office – a step some feel should have occurred years ago.

To sit on city council for the rest of your term adds insult upon injury to the politeness and patience of this community.

The community has spoken. While we recognize the office is challenging, your legacy has not seemed one of integrity and commitment to the greater well being of this community. It has instead consisted of endless manipulations designed to serve a deliberate growth agenda partnered with others of similar self-interest.

Tragically, the carnage left behind is in many ways “irrevocable,” including, in part, a developer feeding frenzy that has left us with 500 or so upscale condos built over the span of the Winslow Tomorrow era that helped to displace half or more of this community’s long-time locals with family incomes below $70,000 annually.

Too, it will not be easy to reverse your intervention at local and state levels seeking to ensure continuation of that agenda despite significant citizen opposition and three petitions calling for it to be put to a vote.

The most respectful thing you can do now, Darlene, is to gracefully remove yourself from office and any further proceedings in COBI affairs.

Our healing would be helped if you were to admit error and apologize, thereby demonstrating the behavior we would like our remaining politicians and children to model.

So please leave, Darlene. We don’t need a 5-3 vote on council for the rest of your term.

Enough damage has already occurred at the hands by the four council members who steadfastly vote your agenda, which, unless that turns around now, just desserts will come there, too.

This encouragement is not meant as an attack This community needs to heal from the last few years of your administration.

Give us the chance to do that unfettered. And sincere best wishes to you.

Larry Koss

Winslow