Tonight there are two meetings of interest to you social activists. At 6 pm, UNC will hold a forum on the chancellor selection process, and at 7 7:30 pm the County Commissioners will meet at the Southern Human Services Center to discuss the new search for a place to put a future waste transfer station.
I will add more information when I am back at my computer.
Update:
The Chancellor's Search Forum will be from 6 pm to 8 pm in Gerrard Hall on campus (between the Campus Y and Memorial Hall). More information and video of previous forums is available at: http://www.unc.edu/chan/search/forums.php
The Board of Orange County Commissioners meeting starts at 7:30 at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. The waste transfer station is item 7b (PDF) on the agenda: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/071115.htm
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I am in Dallas returning but would have like to be there. So thanks for the running update Ruby. The problem of scheduling discussions on the transfer station late into the agenda of meetings was one of the complaints expressed by Rev Campbell. It makes it difficult on some of the seniors and working folks.
Do you know what the closed discussion was about?
Excuse me, returning early tomorrow morning.
I am glad that Jack spoke. I thought his presentation to the Chapel Hill Town Council was a good one. What did Randee have to say?
Oy :) but I have to get up for an early flight anyway. Again thanks for the running commentary. Hopefully I can get some more details tomorrow. Consultancy?... interesting.
Item 7b is finally up! Some people have been waiting to speak for over 3 hours…
I signed up to speak on that item, but had to leave at 10. I will be sending my comments in via email. I think it was poor planning to stick an hour long closed session in the middle of the meeting. It's the first time I have been at a meeting where that happened.
I'm assuming that there was no mentiuon of siting a landfill in Orange County & that the prefered strategy is to ship our waste out to a poor community somewhere else?
I'm assuming that there was no mentiuon of siting a landfill in Orange County & that the prefered strategy is to ship our waste out to a poor community somewhere else?
I asked Gail that question during the closed session break and he said that was not being considered nor were there any current projections of, say, 20 or 30 year costs of transfer station solution versus building our own landfill.
Even if we had our own landfill, we would still need a transfer station as that landfill would likely be in a far corner of northern Orange.
I'm not arguing against our own landfill, I think we should have one. But we would still need a transfer station located close to the main trash generating areas.
Regarding Carey's comment that this siting needs to be wrapped up before the next commissioner election in one year... For practical purposes, this is not entirely accurate. If history holds true, then all of the commissioners will be decided at the democratic primary in May (unless new district 2 seat changes this). Ditto for Carey vs. Kinnaird for the state senate seat.
Carey “because we are the deciders.†Hmmm, where have we heard something like that before?....
Thanks, its better to be there.
If I'm feeling energetic, I might try to get to both of these meetings. Maybe even do some quick video reporting....