To the editor:

We see it every day, some successful company hires some so-called genius that redesigns a perfectly good Web site into something unusable.

Well, here we go again. The county gets some money for a seemingly good idea, hires a whiz-bang consultant and turns the good idea into a wasteful boondoggle.

We all know what a camel is, a horse designed by a committee.

This is what moving the “Welcome to Whidbey” sign is, a camel.

The sign is fine where it is, an icon to thousands of visitors. Moving the welcome sign to a location where people are going well over the speed limit and jockeying to merge to one lane — brilliant!

Leaving the ferry dock is as slow as any car will be going on Highway 525 and it is very visible, thank you. If the sign really needed to be moved, then wouldn’t placing it by the information booth at Ken’s Korner make more sense? People actually slow down and stop there.

The concern about vandalism at Campbell Road is very valid. At night, Campbell Road has no oversight, whereas at Ken’s Korner there is more activity.

For our commissioner to say it is a done deal does not match up to the concerned candidate I voted for.

Nothing should be a done deal when there is less than majority approval.

This is another issue that seems to have been advertised by the rules but somehow seems to have been missed by the majority.

Commissioners, step up and listen to the people and put this boondoggle on hold.

There is ample evidence that the sign won’t hold up to the move.

The proposed location will be subject to defacing.

How much taxpayer money did the county budget for restoration and continued graffiti removal?

Why was the tourist information kiosk not used as a location?

The new Scenic Highway sign is more appropriate at the kiosk and most think it is not very attractive anyway.

The commissioners seem willing to ignore hundreds and perhaps thousands of voters on moving the welcome sign.

We voted for people who said they would represent us; show us you meant it. We have had enough camels from government lately.

Ed Jenkins

Clinton