There is a power struggle underway at the 46-year-old McLean Community Center, whose board is usually occupied with such matters as whether to purchase a ping-pong table for the building or how plans are going for the annual McLean Day family festival, where the board’s elections take place.
Another three are running as a slate seeking to strike a middle ground, while a retired criminal defense attorney on a crusade to stop the center from using its funds to install electric vehicle charging stations in the parking lot calls the entire organization dysfunctional. Then there’s theSeveral in the race lamented how the brick-and-glass building that typically hosts concerts or plays among towering oak trees has become its own spectacle.
showed up in dresses to read books like “Neither” by Airlie Anderson, the story of a part-bunny, part-bird creature seeking acceptance, according toBut the event for interested families that was sponsored by the library and the community center also attracted opponents, about 10 of whom showed up to “Other people can come in and use the center, but I’m paying for it,” said Alice Middleton, 71, who estimates that $400 of her annual residential taxes goes toward the center. “I should have input on the kinds of performances they put on, the kinds of performances that this community supports.
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