Public Safety's performance was a topic shared by several residents who spoke Thursday night at RIOC's Board of Directors meeting.

Vicki Feinmel, a member of the RIRA Common Council, complained about bicycle riding on Main Street sidewalks and pointed to both a lack of enforcement and a lack of signs prohibiting sidewalk riding. Her mother, she reported, is still hospitalized after being hit by a bicyclist just outside the Senior Center.

Ron Vass complained about a lack of patrols in Eastwood and told the Board that residents are not getting their money's worth for their payment of over $1.6 million a year for Public Safety service.

Byron Gaspard read a letter to DHCR Commissioner Joseph Lynch asking for improvements in Public Safety performance.

And Dorothy Donald chastised residents for complaining about Public Safety, but still not attending the monthly precinct-community meetings she arranges.

David Bauer, convener of the Maple Tree Group, told the RIOC Board that "a plan is a plan," referring to the Island's General Development Plan, saying, "You have no right to set it aside without going through due process." Bauer also criticized RIOC, urging the corporation to "pay attention to its customers, to acknowledge its clients, and to do the things that best suit the people you are serving."

There was no new business on the Board's agenda.