DEAR EDITOR:

In my lifetime I’ve met many people, but I have never met any people like this Mill Creek MetroParks board and Aaron Young. I didn’t know people like this existed and thought they only lived in nightmares.

There are two leaving from the Mill Creek Park committee. Judge Rusu, knowing all of the ramifications of Aaron Young, resides over this entire scenario. He has the power of dismissing all of the board or individually, especially Aaron Young.

Last year, he never made it possible for anyone else to have a clean slate on this Mill Creek Park Board. He quietly and secretly put both members back on the board. That is not honest.

Now, we are going to have two open seats again, and Judge Rusu again said he would make it public so as to have fresh people get on the board.

We need fresh people, in fact these autocratic board members, including their director, have a self-serving mission that does not include Mahoning County, which are the taxpayers, the people that have loved Mill Creek Park all of their lives. The levy they put on the ballot about two years ago was a devious and planned-out tactic of personal and collective dealing. They have misled and distorted any truth there could ever be. Their yes people make sure the truth never comes out by way of defamation and heckling those speaking truth.

It almost seems that Aaron Young has stepped down into a new arena of lies. We are not allowed to ask questions any longer at the metro meetings. Then, I remembered what happened the week before this decision!

I blatantly stood before the microphone and looked at Mr. Young and asked him what happened to the man who fell through the railing and fell 12 feet down to a ravine. I told them there were lots of fire trucks and ambulances and that I have pictures. What happened and why wasn’t it on any news, not the newspaper or television?

Oh my God, they were in shock and didn’t know what to say. “We don’t know?” Best to say, they were rattled and played dumb. I demanded, “I want to know now.”

I was indeed persistent and told him that directing a park, you should know. This was a first. They all stopped, leaned forward and just stared at me in total silence.

That is one huge example of their hush-up policy, say nothing, deny. Towards the end of the meeting, they gave a little info, but could never tell me how the man was doing, they “did not know!”

Falling 12 feet because the railing needs fixed, who knows what happened to the poor guy.

The lawsuits are flowing fast in Mill Creek Park, my goodness, Mr. Young is quite a liability to the park. I believe the new rule now is no questions

asked by the public and taxpayers.

With that said, where the hell is the transparency? Aaron Young is not here to please the people or better the park, he’s here, in my opinion, to please himself, then leave to go home to Braceville.

Yes, we are all waiting patiently for Judge Rusu to announce two new openings and where to apply.

All of Mahoning County is now waiting.

KATHY MAINE

Canfield