Criticisms should be based on facts

To the editor:

I don’t have a problem with someone writing to the paper criticizing or complaining about Redkey Town Council. But I do have a problem with it when they don’t have their facts correct.

In the letter to the editor that was written, part of it was true, but other parts were incorrect.

It is written in the minutes of the board’s December meeting that president Doug Stanley told town marshall Todd Miller and myself to get in writing a proposal to amend the personnel policy for comp time for the police department.

Who draws up the policies, ordinances and amendments for the town? The town attorney does.

So we had to have a meeting with the town attorney and board president Stanley wanted to be in attendance to do this.

So, with it being in the minutes in a public meeting and being told to do this, there was not a secret meeting as stated in the letter.

Also, the letter stated that the board took the highest bid of the three bids submitted for a new police vehicle. This was also incorrect.

The board accepted the middle bid.

The lowest bid was for a different brand of vehicle and was $6,614 cheaper, but it did not meet all of the required specs.

We are getting the vehicle that best serves our police department and our community.

Being a former board member, the writer should know that cheaper is not always better.

Mike Wright

Redkey Town Council member