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Next Tuesday. citizens of Washington go to the polls to elect a town council. On this day they will have the opportunity to re-elect their entire governing body. Present council members have nearly completed a twoyear term characterized by common sense, mutual respect, and some real progress in dealing with the issues facing this little town.
Since the council was elected for a second term in 1980, they have provided protection for this historic and beautiful village, adopting the town's first comprehensive plan and its first subdivision ordinance. Offering this protection to town residents meant hours of explanation and tedious review: trying to catch in concrete legal terms the intangible values that make Washington work as a community.
Compliance with bureaucratic requirements and acknowledgement of the changing paperwork demands of local government has been tempered with a down-to-earth, practical approach to solving town problems. When postal rates went up. council considered having the water bills delivered by the meter reader. When a town resident creates an eyesore or a hazard, a tactful work from a council member is usually enough to solve the problem. Perhaps big-city governments would snicker at the" small economies, the personal approach. But it works here.
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