CARBONDALE — The Carbondale Economic Development Partnership (CEDP) is continuing its struggle to gain support within the community and accomplish its mission to boost business in the town.
Trustee Frosty Merriott, in an email to the Post Independent on Thursday, called the partnership “money down a rat hole” because it has not produced much in the way of programs or results.
And Trustee Allyn Harvey, liaison between the board of trustees and the CEDP’s board, said the group remains “very much in limbo,” with only three board members — himself, CEDP Treasurer Bill Grant and CEDP President Lani Kitching.
The group’s biggest problems, he said, have been the mass resignation of most of its board last summer, coupled with lackluster response to a new CEDP website that was created in August 2011 and remains under construction.
Harvey and Merriott each attributed the resignations of at least four of the board members to disappointment over voter rejection of the Village at Crystal River (VCR) development in January of this year.
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