If this meeting doesn’t do it …

Nothing likely will. Poulsbo’s Municipal Campus has been in the planning stages for years, yet city staffers still find themselves walled in a dilapidated maze of a structure on Jensen Way. Will the public allow them to find the cheese and the way to new digs? If so, when and more importantly, where?

Nothing likely will. Poulsbo’s Municipal Campus has been in the planning stages for years, yet city staffers still find themselves walled in a dilapidated maze of a structure on Jensen Way. Will the public allow them to find the cheese and the way to new digs? If so, when and more importantly, where?

A meeting slated for April 19 looks to provide the answer. It had better. The “interactive” discussion planned should provide, once and for all, the pros and cons of possible locations and give the public a chance to speak up.

On this note, though, Muriel Williams makes an excellent point: Residents were invited to weigh in on the municipal campus — the majority simply chose not to.

Quite a few are now opposing the city’s November 2005 decision to proceed with 10th Avenue.

The wrinkle in that plan came this year when the Herald reported that Creekside Center on 7th Avenue was also available. Some residents, who had reservations about the 10th Avenue location, threw their support behind Creekside. Others used it as a platform to denounce the process and urge the city to review other options.

It seems just as the city was set to take a long-awaited step toward a new municipal campus, it stumbled over the public.

Now, folks have 15 minutes to make their cases and discuss the issues at hand.

While we applaud Mayor Kathryn Quade for generating the opportunity for residents and city staff to do so, we also hope the end result will be to expedite the process as a whole in the interest of the entire community — not just those who like one site or the other or those with dull axes and all day to grind them.

In short, and pending any environmental appeals of the 10th Avenue site, the city needs to get up, dust itself off and move onto other business.

After April 19, no one can claim they weren’t listened to and for certain not everyone will be pleased with the forthcoming decision. Either way, let’s get on with it.

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