FREDONIA — Three of the people who filed suit against Fredonia’s Dec. 26 water decision have called Mayor Michael Ferguson’s response “inaccurate and insulting.”

Kara Christina, Athanasia Landis and Gladys Sedota sent a letter to the OBSERVER in response over the weekend. It appears in full on today’s opinion page.

Ferguson criticized the lawsuit filers — in a statement read out at a trustees workshop and shared with the media — as trying to stop progress. The trio responds that their lawsuit “in no way prevents or stalls the village from addressing deficiencies or violations at the water plant. It does compel the village to take time to consider more facts related to their choice and to address questions that remain unanswered.”

The Dec. 26 vote by trustees laid out a plan to draw down the village reservoir, decommission the water treatment plant and acquire water from Dunkirk.

The letter from Christina, Landis and Sedota calls Ferguson’s statements in January that the village is only pursuing water system options, and has not committed to anything, “disingenuous.”

The letter is said to be from the “Citizens Action Group for Saving our Reservoir.” It states, “We are a group of concerned citizens from diverse economic, political, and educational backgrounds who are all gravely concerned about choices made that will affect life and livelihoods of residents in the village for decades to come.”

They want “full and complete upgrading of Fredonia’s reservoir, dam and water treatment plant, and proactive long-term plans for maintaining them.”

The letter, critical of the Dec. 26 decision, goes on to list “facts” and “questions that demand answers.”