This is in response to the recent editorial, “Where are we headed?”

My family moved to this community last year and now calls Fountain Hills our home. As recent transplants to this community, I feel we have a little to say on the subject and our perception of where our community seems to be headed.

The community is unique and beautiful; however, it has the appearance of a town that has seen better days economically speaking.

How is it that the town, managed by such talented people, has allowed itself to veer away from being a bedroom community where families would desire to live to become a community filled primarily with retirees and part-time snow-birds?

After relocation here we felt a little disillusioned. A school had been closed and the family demographic of our town appears dwindling. Most community services are geared toward an older demographic base.

Upon reading an opinion piece penned by the chairman of the Strategic Planning Advisory Commission on December 18, 2013, I wrote the commission offering suggestions that could potentially assist Fountain Hills in growing its younger population by attracting families with children into its demographic base.

However, my letter went unanswered by the commission, which leads me to ask the question, does the commission actually desire the changes they represent themselves to want? The proof is in the pudding. Since they never got back to me I ask publicly, what are the tangible results of this commission and how are their successes measured?

Instead of creating commissions filled, with Ph.D.s and other retired folks who have all the time in the world and little interest in actual change, I believe the town must go out and seek these new younger families to fill the seats of these commissions because it is the family that is the future of this town.