I found the Sun Journal’s June 27 editorial slamming Lewiston and Auburn city councils for not aggressively pursuing the joint commission’s recommendations to merge services quite ironic, as the Sun Journal might be the last to know if action was being taken as it does not always provide live coverage to Auburn’s City Council meetings.

Last month, the Auburn council discussed giving George Schott the most one-sided deal since the Indians were swindled out of Manhattan for trinkets and beads.

Auburn’s own zoning ordinances allow the planning board to make the developer pay for any off-site traffic deficiencies created by a development. Instead of that plan, the citizens will pick up the $5 million tab usual, while the city manager basks in her glory and the neighborhood citizens don their body armor to attempt to cross the street safely.

Free enterprise is supposed to reward the entrepreneur for creativity and risks. Auburn takes the risk out of the equation for the developer and passes that and the costs on to its taxpayers.

Councilor Bob Mennealy,

Auburn