Friends of East Hampton Airport Coalition Respond to Recent Town Board Action

The East Hampton Town Board have recently decided to issue its plan to restrict airport flights for public comment after being presented with the plans at the last Town Board meeting.

The Friends of East Hampton Airport released a statement on Wednesday expressing their opinion on that fact.

Statement from Loren Riegelhaupt, coalition spokesmen:

“It is an outrage and a deeply troubling precedent for the Town Board to circumvent the budget committee analysis and ask for public comment before the public even knows what the economic impacts might be. How can the public possibly comment on a plan when no one knows the true economic impacts?

This all the more evidence that the East Hampton Town Board does not understand or care about the facts or the economic risks involved. Instead, the Board wants to blindly push ahead with their ill-advised plan to effectively close the airport, regardless of its impacts to the Town’s economic wellbeing.”

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