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Originally Posted by shore things
If the Wetlands Council were a business then the council members would be getting paid to provide a legal service and would not be volunteering their time. I'm not going to defend the Council beyond that. Truth is we are waiting for decisions also. Please just don't take out any frustrations on the clerk as it is beyond her control. As for the suggestion the the law be repealed until the appeals council is fixed that would be unnecessary and ill advised. Unnecessary because there is always the court system and ill advised because it would eliminate the "exemption" from the the Army Corps permitting requirements that NH projects currently enjoy under the State Programatic General Permit.
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Sorry Shore Things, I don't want to chase you away, you've been very helpful on this forum to many people. Someone must be in charge and should be on top of this. The tacit acceptance of these people who have volunteered for these positions but don't have time to do what they have agreed to do is the problem. Making someone wait 6 months is unacceptable and reeks of incompetence. "Oh they're volunteers", is an infuriating response to a problem. Going to court involves time and expense and is not a reasonable answer. A reasonable way to handle this is to honor the time lines that Gatto references and impose them on these volunteers. If the timeline is missed, then the applicant is free to proceed. I'm sure if the applicant misses a deadline they are SOL. This needs to get fixed.....