By Jennifer Eisenbart
Editor
While Gateway Technical College staff tried all they could to reassure residents of the subdivision next to the ChocolateFest grounds that the new emergency training track would not be a noise issue, residents wanted nothing of it Thursday night at a listening session held at Gateway in Burlington.
The Gateway staff in attendance – which included GTC President Bryan Albrecht and Vice President Bill Whyte – heard almost unanimous protest against the idea of locating the EVOC track on the ChocolateFest grounds. Those same residents were in support of the public safety training center, but Albrecht said that the two would have to go hand in hand.
Albrecht also said that Burlington had the most potential of the sites that had been considered.
“Your questions are most important to us,” Albrecht said. “That’s why we’re here.”
But judging by the feedback received at the listening session, it wasn’t just questions people wanted answers for.
“You need to go back to the drawing board,” said Pat Vogel.
For more, see next week’s print edition of the Burlington Standard Press.
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