Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:17:36 -0400
From: Tom West
Subject: Chatham hits 5th on pollution list under Chatham Coalition regime

The Chatham Coaltion Commissioners who preached about a green environment apparently failed miserably. Under the leadership of Tom Vanderbeck, George Lucier, Sally Kost and all, Chatham landed up being the 5th most pollted county in the state of North Carolina.

“According to data that industrial polluters must report to the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010, polluters released over 1 million pounds of toxic pollution into the air breathed by residents in each of twelve counties (listed in descending order by amount): Columbus (3,972,385 lbs.), New Hanover (3,056,955lbs.), Wayne (2,148,960 lbs.),

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom West
Subject: Sally Kost calls the Chatham Bookmobile a “Rolling Dinosaur”

Glad Mark Barroso had a chance to capture one of the last rides of the Chatham Bookmobile. A bookmobile, that county commissioner Sally Kost so unkindly referred to as a “rolling dinosaur” at the June 3, 2010 commissioners’ meeting.

During the 2010-11 budget process, the bookmobile was part of the consideration for discontinuance upon the opening of the new library. Chairman Sally Kost stated that as part of the budget recommendation that was presented to the Board in May, staff made the recommendation to take the resources that were used for the bookmobile and to use those to help offset some of the costs for the new Chatham Community library.

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:22:04 -0400
From: Tom West
Subject: Some one is just not very good with numbers or the facts

Hey, Jeffrey Starkweather -

See you are having problems with your numbers and facts again.

Alamance County has 22K students and spends $2.8M on central office administration. Chatham has about 8K students and spends $4.1M on central office administration.

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:04:16 -0500
From: “Dr John R Dykers”
Subject: landfill

Landfill trash disposal SHOULD be by now as obsolete as hog lagoons. The technology may not be fully developed on a large enough scale yet, but much has been done, and surely will be economically more feasible and ecologically more sound by the time an old fashioned land fill can be sited and built. Landfill money will likely be wasted money poured into an obsolete system.

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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:29:39 -0500
From: Donna Kelly
Subject: Sustainable Communities Director

We keep hearing now that the Sustainable Communities director position was created to promote efficiencies and reduce redundancies in county government departments. How about we look at the minutes of some of the BOC meetings when the position was being created to see what the BOC was saying at the time?

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:23:30 -0500
From: Dan Marley
Subject: A couple of points

It’s been a while since I last saw the Chatlist and what fun it is to have it back in my mailbox !

Just a couple of “thoughts”:

1)       The stink in the new library could be coming from the inappropriately placed tiles on the fireplaces.

2)      They are inappropriate because for some reason, the “artist” thought it appropriate to push her politics and beliefs onto the public with our money.

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:23:30 -0500
From:”Dan Marley
Subject: A couple of points

It’s been a while since I last saw the Chatlist and what fun it is to have it back in my mailbox !

Just a couple of “thoughts”:

1) The stink in the new library could be coming from the inappropriately placed tiles on the fireplaces.

2) They are inappropriate because for some reason, the “artist” thought it appropriate to push her politics and beliefs onto the public with our money.

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hope Crossing Animal Hospital
Subject: Signs in Chatham County

Good morning:

I am very distressed. Someone we like and respect, has had his livelihood threatened. We are very sad to see that happen. Not sad. Angry.. I do not say that lightly.

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:06:11 -0400
From: Chatham Ghost
Subject: Tony Wilson

I have to respond to this. Tony has been a pain in my butt at times but it was because , one ,he was doing his job , two , I was in violation of a county ordinance , and three some nosy bastard called and complained about something they had no business looking at in the first place . With that said ,, why in the hell is George Lucier jumping one of the best county employees we have . I wish every county employee had his disposition and people skills .

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:56:33 -0400
From: Tom West
Subject: John Hammond: We did not need any voters in rural areas of county to win

From the Chatham Coalition Vice Chair John Hammond – “We did not need any voters in the rural areas of the county to win”

The Chatham Coalition county commissioner candidates this election are George Lucier, Tom Vanderbeck, and Carl Thompson.

http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,20703.0.html

John Hammond said -

Let me put it very simply:

It’s over you are out numbered and out organized and every day that passes you will be even more out numbered. You have lost the demographic battle.

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