Letter: Verbal abuse at TRPA meeting unjustified

To TRPA, local jurisdiction members and the community,

I attended the January TRPA Governing Board meeting (as I attend most) and was astounded at the verbal accosting of a member of the public and the general treatment of this person by TRPA and local jurisdiction staff and associated consultants, and other members of the planning team. This all took place before the public hearing on an upcoming area plan presentation.

This is outrageous and unacceptable.

We, the public at-large, are entitled by legal right to speak our mind about any subject matter on an agenda and should not feel threatened or intimated into not stating how we feel on that particular matter.

I hope to never see this type of shameful treatment again.

Ellie Waller, Tahoe Vista