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Progress on finding a mailbox site seems to have stalled. In order to get a sense of what the Fairfield Estates community believes we should be doing, I composed a short questionnaire and had as many residents as I could find late this morning/ early afternoon to fill it out. I talked to members of seven of the 17 households on the groups.io email list. I went to four homes where no one was home, and honestly ran out of steam before going to all the houses.

Their responses are attached, and I summarize them below. So far, the sense of the community is clear. I encourage all those who I missed to answer the questions either by email or drop your answers off anonymously at our house 8350 S. Sexton Pl.

(1) Were you at the last Road District Meeting?

Six Yes, one No.

(2) Do you recall that it was decided at that meeting that site #1 east is the best site?

Of the six who were at the meeting, no one recalls deciding that site #1 is the best.
Two said they don’t recall what was decided.
One said site #1 east 飞补蝉苍’迟 decided as the best site.
Three said it was the site preferred by Jim.

(3) Do you think the criteria for selection of the best site should be based legality, spacious and convenience? If not those criteria, what criteria?

Five said yes.
One was mainly concerned with legality
One was flexible.

(4) We need the surveyors to locate the property line, but they have been delayed since February. Would you like to know if surveyors have been asked to make a fourth survey of? the entire Fairfield Estates or just locate the property line at sites #3 west and #1 west?

Six said we only need information on sites #3 west and #1 west.
One was in favor of a survey of the entire district in order to hasten preparation for paving.

(5) Regarding site #1 east and the School District. Do you think we should wait another month for the school district to reach a decision regarding our request to install mailboxes on their easement, or we should move more quickly, meet with the School Board President, explain the situation, and answer any questions she might have?

All seven think we should move quickly to get a positive decision or rule site #1 east out.

(6) Do you have further comments?

One suggested, as a fallback position, attempting to purchase a small mailbox site on the east side of Fairfield Cir from the owner of the first (southernmost) lot as you enter Fairfield Estates.

I talked to seven households yesterday and had seven interesting conversations. One in particular hit the nail on the head regarding the mailboxes. The person said, “This is mostly about small town politics.” I had to laugh but completely agreed. I forget the details of his story but was something like they lived in a small town that something significant was proposed to change, but politics got involved, and nothing happened.

If there had been a commitment by the Fairfield Estates RIMD board and the community to having the mailboxes installed in an acceptable site starting last September or even in January, we would have them by now. But rather, it’s been bogged down in small town politics.