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Let me say this as well Whitey: The notion that things should, as a matter of course, lay on the table for two weeks is a position I've had for some time. I've made the suggestion to David, I've made the suggestion to Todd; I've made the suggestion to Tommie ... all at least once and all going back several years. I even made the suggestion to I know Jerry Shearin and I probably did to Bill Carruth and Mike Pope when he was a post commissioner. I don't recall making the suggestion to David Barnett or David Carmichael but I may have. This suggestion represents a major procedural

Whitey: They did what they did. They were within their rights under the law to do what they did. I judge what they did on the merits of the project. That said, I would hope - I would think - that I would be involved enough to first of all know what was going on. Second, as I do believe in the public's right to know, I would have figured a way to communicate what I feel was great news more adroitly than having it announced by the AJC and TV three months after the retreat. The contract may have been written a bit differently and may have been silent on some issues at the beginnin

I especially like his spelling, Stradial It really is expressive - really someting ... George Patton "Pat" Hughes (aka: pubby) ps: It is really is a bit different not seeing everyones' mod levels ... (I can't when using this account.)

I thought it a bad idea then and I think it was a bad idea now. pubby

Some good news and bad news The good news is that things are coming together and the new server is going to be upgraded to the new version of the board in tomorrow. The bad news is that everything done between this morning at 3:40am and when the upgrade happens will disappear. There was a hitch with a secondary service and that forced a delay until tomorrow. All this will go away. pubby

We had some darn good discussions back then I found our dissection of the Brevik's murderous rampage an interesting read. That the title of that topic earned me a great deal of flack, I found interesting as well. Probably the best comment in the topic that criticized my headline was: Oh well, my search showed that was the only time that right-winger appeared in a topic title on pcom. pubby PS: Would that suggest that I listen?

Whitey: First off, I don't think any candidate wants you to pick up your stakes and move. Second, if you and thousands of other Clayton County residents hadn't moved, I think you would object to your own characterization that Clayton County is full of riff-raff. Third, I can't imagine any candidate wants Paulding County to be anything but the best it can be ... I think we all want it to be a just community, an open community, a community with increasing employment opportunities and one where people live, work, worship and live a good, honest, rewarding life. That we may disagre

The topic here is the first amendment rights of the commission members and the information provided by the George Press Association's attorney's opinion that and, for that matter, observation that executive sessions are 'permitted' and that the information discussed by t he public body is not nor has it ever been afforded 'state secret' status by the courts. I'm not dissing on the current commission nor am I kissing up. Like everyone who seeks elective office, my attitudes and opinions are based on my life experience. I believe in the first amendment and the public's right to know ranks

The thing you want to tear down and burn down is all confidence in the commission and the communities leadership. The plain fact is that they were charged with making this a success. You contend that came with a rule, etched in stone, that they couldn't bring an airplane into the airport that had seats for sale to passengers. I guess, the planes you would allow would bring in toxic waste, widgets from China, dope from Columbia or anything else except human beings who happened to pay for the privilege. That distinction just doesn't make any sense to me and then to jump the commissio

Whitey: the problem is the message being presented is "tear it down, burn it down 'cause all we want is burning rubble." Is there anything constructive to your arguments; to your movement? I don't hear it, I don't see it ... seriously. pubby

LPPT: Here's the agenda: It will be interesting if the motion for the resolution in favor of the change in the law regarding the IBA passes. We all know that there was a bit of a surprise action by Post 2 Commissioner Todd Pownall pulling out the email from the IBA attorney Tom Cable to Rep. Howard Maxwell. Whether the resolution will be passed or not by the commission is up in the air. Indeed, strong among the possibilities are that the resolution will be withdrawn on the premise that it is too late in the legislative session to get the measure passed. Oh, and LPPT:

I've heard that argument before but it relates more to the water distribution than to sewerage. We obviously have a county water system that runs pretty much county wide. But you're right, a key idea is that water in a basin ought to stay in a basin. Sewerage reatment is established in various areas in the county and there are even, on the east side of the county if memory serves, some inter-county transfers. But all that aside, untreated effluent running in the streets or backyards is a health hazard. Septic sewerage treatment is destined to fail in about 25 percent of the homes ove

It would appear from a reading of the 2012 open meetings act that the airport authority may have exceeded its authority. Here is a pdf of the 2012 Georgia Open Meetings Act: http://www.paulding.com/pdfs/OMA_M_2012_Act_correctly_formatted.pdf Being a member of the press for some time, I don't like closed meetings and I think that while it is possible under the law for some meetings to be closed to the public, the individuals who are authorized to attend those meetings are saddled with the responsibility not just to the body that has closed the meeting, but to the public at large.

There are several things that I disagreed with that the commission has done over the years. The main challenge was with the allocations of sewerage and some of the deals that went down with how sewerage was deployed and allocated. Of particular concern was that there was never a plan to provide sewerage to some of the early subdivisions that were built on septic tanks but because of improper soils (and improper permitting which did happen in the early days of the housing boom) will no longer percolate. Issues like that were largely ignored, covered up and forgotten because the resourc

I don't recall ever citing David Austin as a source on that thought. I honestly don't recall any conversation I've ever had with David Austin regarding your case other than one declaratory statement - possibly before his election in 2008 - that the Surepips, IMO, have gotten a raw deal the response of which was more recognition than necessarily agreement. That doesn't negate the thought. The source of that thought, at least in general, was your attorney at the time who filed the proper response, which was an anti-slapp suit. It was obvious that the county was using all sorts of presumably

Thank you for adding your perspective here, Jane. If there is an issue here, in my mind, it may be the primacy of elected officials. The plain truth is that the law firm has extensive institutional knowledge that comes from having represented the county in its business going back longer than the 25 years I've been here. In the time I've been here, there have been six county administration and the law firm has been the one consistent element throughout all of them. There is value to that consistency and that institutional knowledge. Do I agree with the all the actions, all the o

Surepip: You may want to construe that statement made to the chamber in 2004 as a contract but to say that it is more binding than a contract is laughable. Where was that 'codicil' formalized? Nowhere? Who put a signature on that provision? no one. What consideration was there? none. Was it true at the time that no one foresaw PUJ - our effort being a commercial passenger airport. The fear of the community, and the unwritten word in that declaration was that our doing a general aviation airport was that we would be forestalling Atlanta from ever using their adjacent 10,000