Meetings are long. Voices are louder. People are organizing, questioning, challenging, and showing up in new ways in Victor. That’s not a failure of democracy—it’s a sign of people caring deeply about this place and the decisions shaping its future. Right now, though, we are far better at breaking things down than building anything back up.

We are facing real, immovable constraints: federal deadlines that cannot be extended, and a wastewater system that must be fixed, with significant financial consequences no matter what path we choose.

A resident clarified in a text his main criticism of the Victor City Council as “our inability to communicate our reasoning for investing in a new plant to our constituents.” That’s fair feedback, especially given that our March 27, 2025, decision to pursue an independent plant was a long time ago, so I'll start there. Looking back to that meeting—well before recent failed mediation efforts with Driggs—my reasoning after weighing complex tradeoffs still stands: