To the editor:
It was stunning to hear outgoing Rossmoor Community Service Director Barke’s departure letter—read in his absence at the November 12 board meeting. For an individual who should have resigned from the board years ago after vacating the community to claim that a “group of far-left advocates has politicized … and taken over the RCSD” and to “pray Rossmoor will reassert its conservative core to take back the RCSD from the woke left” is such a gross distortion.
The effort to make sure that the noise and traffic impact of pickleball on residents who live around Rossmoor Park are addressed is driven by respect for health and safety, not by “woke” politics.
The preservation of tennis opportunities in the face of pickleball reflects the conservative notion of maintaining constructive institutions rather than disrupting them.
The expectation of appropriate use of property tax, grant, and Prop 68 funds by the RCSD reflects the need for good governance, not a politicization by the “far left.”
So long, Dr. Barke.
Rob Kaplan
Rossmoor