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Editorial A letter in last week's newspaper criticized the Babylon Village Board for the way in which it conducted a Village Board meeting recently. While we attended that meeting, and do not agree with most of the points the writer made, one thing is clear. The Village Board should, as we have said before, allow the public time to review its agenda and make comment and ask questions on it before the board votes on each item. In failing to do that, the Village Board excludes the public from the process and eliminates the possibility of it providing timely input on those resolutions. More important, it denies itself the benefit of the public's ideas and insight into them.
We hope that the board, which has said it would consider this change, does so and puts this practice into place. It is one that has been adopted by almost every municipality in the State of New York. For lawmakers who invite this kind of public participation, it simply makes good sense.
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