Extra Hearings Prove HRC is Needed Here

Tony Crocamo
Supervisor, West Hempfield Township
District Leader Hempfield Area Democratic Committee

Some might call the extra hearings on the fate of the County Human Relations Commission an unnecessary and wasteful duplication of government services. After all, the original meeting, held in Lancaster City, resulted in wide-ranging support for continuing the County HRC.

Still, to call the added meeting dates and locations a duplication of government services would not be fair. It was inconvenient for some constituents in other parts of the county to make it all the way to Lancaster for the meeting. By adding the extra meetings the commissioners made government more accessible to their constituents—the very argument for retaining the HRC.

If it is not a duplication to accommodate able-bodied constituents with access to personal transportation who were, nonetheless, unable to make it all the way to Lancaster City for a hearing on a topic they care about, then it is not a duplication to accommodate handicapped citizens, or citizens who do not have personal transportation, to suffer the expense and inconvenience to travel even further to Harrisburg to get justice.

Everyone who attends the additional meetings, whether they speak against or for the HRC, is proof that having a county HRC is not a duplication of government services.

Tony Crocamo

District Leader, HADC

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Tony Crocamo

The opinions expressed here are those of the author alone and are not the official position of the
Lancaster County Democratic Committee.