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False. We would have offered indoor rowing fitness classes via our current <br />partnership with Orono Community Ed and we welcomed the opportunity <br />for other programming based on suggestions from members of the <br />community. <br /> <br />We lack transparency <br />Again, we offered to host a meeting, but we were discouraged from doing <br />so. We have nothing to hide. Nothing about our operations, our <br />leadership, our staff, or our programming would suggest <br />otherwise. Anyone who suggests that we are hiding something is likely <br />uninformed and/or being malicious. <br /> <br />We haven’t reached out for feedback in 2 years <br />To the extent it was possible during a pandemic, we met with park <br />commissioners, and neighbors. We had hoped to hear from those of you <br />who so enthusiastically pledged to share your ideas. We haven’t even <br />been able to hold indoor practices for the last two years, let alone meetings <br />with residents. Normally our winter training would have opened up in <br />January. We are now 3 months behind. We are bound by the COVID <br />protocols of those who lend us their space for our meetings. We only <br />began a revision of our building plans in early November because we had <br />to fundraise to pay for those revisions. The plan wasn’t even finalized until <br />the morning we submitted the application. We can’t apologize for the <br />timing or for the restrictions of Covid. We are a volunteer organization and <br />we did our best with the resources available to us at the time. <br /> <br /> <br />And finally, we are operating in the “dark shadows of local <br />government bureaucracy,” whatever that means. <br />Look, we’re not going to have people who don’t know us and don’t know <br />rowing design our building for us. We did, however, welcome all ideas <br />about other elements that the public believed would benefit them. I will say <br />again that we were just an applicant asking for permission to explore what <br />is possible, and we were committed to following the City’s process until we <br />got an answer, which we never received. <br /> <br />LLRC will continue to pursue all possibilities for a permanent home on Long <br />Lake. We welcome anyone that has ideas or willing to help to reach out to <br />us. In the meantime, we encourage anyone in the community to give <br />rowing a try this summer.