You Won’t Believe What Crete Officials Are Planning!

Written by David E. Smith

I am very disappointed to have to send this email alert to you today, but you need to know what is going on in our village. Crete Village Trustee Katrina Seifert recently proposed updating the Village seal, thinking it would help bring people and businesses into our community.

Thankfully, Trustees Steve Bruns and Steve Johnson voted against making a change to the village seal.

At the January 8^th meeting, Trustee Seifert presented the new village seal. Trustee Phelan asked why there wasn’t a church in the new rendering. Trustee Seifert responded by saying that the seal needed to be “more inclusive.”

So, inclusivity means excluding the church? Isn’t that ironic? There are at least 6 churches in Crete, and there is a good chance that more than 70 percent of village residents identify as Christians.

Before the next Village Board meeting, which is scheduled for Monday, January 22^nd, you may want to reach out to Mayor Einhorn and the Village Board and tell them that you think this redesign is unnecessary.

You may also want to ask them some questions, like:

–Why exclude a Christian church if you are seeking to be inclusive?

–Are you ashamed of our churches and the people who attend them?

–Will you also remove the signs at the edges of our village from local churches that welcome visitors to our fair community?

–Why spend thousands of our tax dollars designing and then updating all the village trucks, signs and letterhead with a new logo when the old one is absolutely fine?

ACTION: Please click HERE to send them all an email right now. Additionally, you can make a phone call to the Mayor and Board of Trustees to let them know how you feel about this effort. The phone number to Village Hall is (708) 672-5431.