tom luther

Greetings from Sullivan County. NO. Committee seats on town boards are already impossible to fill with interested folks. If you burden the process with "certified experts" you will lock out ordinary citizens. The only folks on these boards will have an axe to grind and a pocket to be filled. The purpose of such certification is to ensure regulatory capture, and legislative graft. The fix is plainly in. This is a citizen democracy, not a socialist paradise. Experts won't save you from elitist control, they will ensure it and monetize it.