In his recent letter, “Why can’t Co-op be more like the town?”, Bill Wertz envisions the worst.

His allegations of my having a conflict of interest have no merit. He jumps to an erroneous conclusion that I knew what the future would bring.

In 2007, I was concerned about a proliferation of numerous unsightly cell-phone towers that might be needed to serve the difficult topography of our islands.

It was not until 2012, two years after I left the County Council, that OPALCO even began to consider the expansion of OPALCO’s fiber-optic communications system to include access for joint-use wireless facilities using existing power poles.

Hindsight may make for 20-20 vision.

Bob Myhr/Lopez Island

— Editor’s note: former county councilman Bob Myhr is a member of OPALCO’s board of directors