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Posted: Feb 20th, 2006 01:47 pm |
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StewartM wrote: ...be nice to have a building with a meeting room to have a good system set up.
Humm..... great idea Mike... a meeting room. I agree, Summerfield should have a place to hold it's meetings. I heard it's crowded for some committees in the Town Hall now.
No need for grand convention centers here, just a place that is comfortable, and oh yeah, a good sound system too! Fine with me.
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Posted: Feb 20th, 2006 10:16 pm |
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Just to verify my understanding of the Open Meetings Law, I contacted David Lawrence, a professor of Public Law and Government with the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. David says the statute I quoted entitles anyone "to tape record an official meeting of a public body and make any use of the recording he or she wants to."
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Posted: Feb 26th, 2006 05:08 pm |
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Hi All
Since a few days after the Super Bowl I've suffered from what I have been calling flu-monia. I highly recommend not getting it. Wash your hands and be careful who you kiss! Finally getting healthy enough to check back into Duke, (Never knew you could be too sick to go to the hospital)
Anyway, something came to my fevered mind. Dwayne and Becky were criticized for going out of the area to attend a class and spending tax money needlessly. Know full well that I am not defending that choice but my question is: who actually approved that expense? As far as I remember individual council members do not have the authority to approve any expense (especially their own). Seems that unless the fees were approved by the full council in public meeting there is a problem. Do we need an audit of our internal controls?
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Waytago
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Posted: Feb 26th, 2006 05:57 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote: Third, the Rocky Mount training trip
The training offered in Rocky Mount on Jan 18 – 20 is being offered in Greensboro on Feb 14 – 16. 28 days would not have made that much of a difference. The decision to spend taxpayer money for travel in January seems to have been made solely by the two Town Council members who attended the training.
wepete wrote: Dwayne and Becky were criticized for going out of the area to attend a class and spending tax money needlessly. Know full well that I am not defending that choice but my question is: who actually approved that expense? As far as I remember individual council members do not have the authority to approve any expense (especially their own). Seems that unless the fees were approved by the full council in public meeting there is a problem. Do we need an audit of our internal controls? Good question wepete. What is the training had been in Atlanta, or on California, would the two TC members have been able to decide to attend it there also. OK, let's assume it was isolated to NC, the same question remains, what are the Summerfield controls for travel??
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StewartM
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Posted: Mar 7th, 2006 09:43 am |
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 Don't forget Town Council meeting tonight 
    
    
 Let your voice be heard 
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Mar 7th, 2006 01:20 pm |
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| Come tonight to hear Dr. Sellers presentation of the park needs for Summerfield and let the council know that you support Parks in our Town.
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FatPappy
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Posted: Mar 7th, 2006 01:25 pm |
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| Pappy will be wearin' his trail walkin' boots!
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Posted: Mar 7th, 2006 01:28 pm |
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| Fat Pappy gather up the Missus and all the children also. Lets show our council we want parks.
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 12:12 pm |
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Saw survey thing-GREAT News! Left after that, was wanting to know if anyone stayed for Business from Council, agenda item 13. (ugh...13, I hope it didn't mean bad luck) Just couldn't stay and I always like to hear this.
Anybody know?
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 01:03 pm |
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Jim Sellers is my hero!
(Sorry Pappy! Just for today.)
The man told everyone in no uncertain terms that the community wants a park. Bet the CC's still didn't HEAR it though.
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 01:56 pm |
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| I thought they did an excellent job. They really did a great job fielding questions and explaining how the survey was performed and how to read the results. Kudos to them.
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StewartM
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 03:52 pm |
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Cracker Jax wrote:
Jim Sellers is my hero!
(Sorry Pappy! Just for today.)
The man told everyone in no uncertain terms that the community wants a park. Bet the CC's still didn't HEAR it though.
Last night BS said she never voted against the park...Well right before Christmas she voted no to buying the playground Equipment.......
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 04:41 pm |
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Hairbrush wrote: I thought they did an excellent job. They really did a great job fielding questions and explaining how the survey was performed and how to read the results. Kudos to them. Agreed. Good Professional Presentation with factual answers.
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FatPappy
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2006 04:49 pm |
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StewartM wrote:
Cracker Jax wrote:
Jim Sellers is my hero!
(Sorry Pappy! Just for today.)
The man told everyone in no uncertain terms that the community wants a park. Bet the CC's still didn't HEAR it though.
Last night BS said she never voted against the park...Well right before Christmas she voted no to buying the playground Equipment.......
Pappy's OK with that, Crackah! He's my hero too!
I'm gonna eat barbecued chicken at the park in his honor.
The CC keep actin' like nobody wants a park. If they would just talk to people outside their own little world, they might hear what people want. People want a park! Pappy knows it's hard to read trail signs sometimes, but what they heard last night was a blaze orange, neon lit, you-gotta-wear-shades-to-look-at-it trail sign! That's a trail sign you can sit in front of an' get a tan! That's a trail sign you can cook hot dogs on a stick in front of! That's a sign that'll barbecue a chicken!
I reckon you gotta be purty blind or purty bold to say the people don't want a park after that.
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Posted: Mar 9th, 2006 12:49 am |
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StewartM wrote: Last night BS said she never voted against the park...Well right before Christmas she voted no to buying the playground Equipment.......
Interesting.......BS was whining that all she is worried about is the maintenance on the park. Has never been defined. And if it had been defined, she's probably be worried about "is this maintenance budget accurate to the $0.0001"?
Gave Michael high marks for actually assigning something to maintenance (properly) so she can keep harping on it. Wanted to assign on-going expenses for lights to park capital outlay (dumb move & inappropriate accounting). Good Job Michael !!
This must be an example of the "hard questions" she said she planned to ask during her campaign.
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