To the editor:
Re: "Mole story riddled with errors," Letters, May 17.
It was good to read that the community centre board members currently in negotiations with the Vision Vancouver park board are not stating they are in agreement with the demands Vision put to them with accompanying threats of kicking them out if they disagreed.
Since numerous Vision commissioners, city councillors and city bureaucrats have stated the exact opposite - which is to say that what they called the "cooperating" boards had accepted these demands in principle and were simply working out the small details - it is good to hear specifically from them that the centre board members who are in negotiations do not see it that way. I urge Mr.
Richardson and the others to continue standing up for what is right, and if necessary to refuse to sign off on an unacceptable agreement. Likewise, I applaud the six centre boards that are, as Mr. Richardson notes, continuing to engage in public campaigning to maintain awareness of the Vision councillors' and commissioners' unreasonable and damaging demands, accompanying threats and in some cases angry attacks and tirades, which have never been publicly withdrawn or even modified so that everyone can progress with a clean slate.
Scott Parker, Vancouver
