On May 31st the Dewey-Humboldt town council was to have finally voted on Monogram's proposal for the "Village at Young's Farm" development.  Many of us looked forward to the event as it would put an end to a long struggle between those who wish to preserve the rural nature of this town and those who support the proposed 580 home sub-division to replace Young's Farm.

  Those who had worked against the project awaited with some optimism, having just succeeded in their effort to mobilize the property owners adjacent to Young's Farm to write letters of protest to the town council.  This accomplishment netted well over the necessary 20% opposition dictated by law to force a "super-majority" requirement in the town council's vote on Monogram's proposal.  Now, instead of a simple majority, the town council would have to come up with a 3/4 majority to pass the proposal.  That would require six "yes" votes.  To put it another way, two or more "no" votes would defeat the plan, but who on the town council was going to vote against it?

  Although there was much speculation, the answer became somewhat apparent in the circus that took place instead of a vote on the evening of the 31st.  The issues surrounding the Village at Young's Farm quickly melted away leaving only very obvious and belabored attempts to stall any kind of vote that might result in defeat of the proposal.  Those in attendance generally presumed that councilpersons Kuhns, Wright and Rushton were prepared to vote against Monogram.  A worthy attempt at disqualifying two council members was laid on the table but in the end, that would not have produced the necessary super-majority.

  So the evening ended with lots of strategic maneuvers, motions to vote and a great deal of stalling but no vote ever happened and it was rescheduled for June 13th.

  Here we are with mere days to go.  Have any of the council members changed their minds?  Have any more grounds for recusal been discovered?  What will the proponents for the Village at Young's Farm do next if they can't be assured of a 3/4 majority?  We don't know, but it might be an exciting evening in Dewey-Humboldt on June 13th!