Attendees for Budget summit have been finalized.
Cindy Brookshire, Steve Thomas, Tom Phillips, Rich Meyer, Bob & Marci S., Rick Bookwalter, Dan Arnold and Dave Core. If your name isn’t on the list, please don’t show up as there won’t be any room. If you are on that list and can’t make it, please let me know as far in advance as possible. No-shows with no notice will be banned from future meetups.
A couple of things-
1. Attendees are required to have read, at the very least, the “City Managers Message” part of the budget presentation. You should bring that as well. I’m serious about this. If, in the course of conversation it becomes obvious you haven’t read it, you’ll be sent to the teenage daughters video game bunker for re-education. Hope you like the music format they now call “electronica”.
2. The ground rules are, more or less, the same as they are here. Spirited debate is cool. Abuse ain’t and won’t be tolerated.
3. I wanted this to be essentially open-ended time wise but we have an Education Forward meeting that morning so we’ll go from 3:00-5:30.
4. If you have a burning desire to bring your fav beverage, bring it. I’ll have a couple kinds of beer/soda/water/coffee (no decaf). Don’t bring snacks unless they’re just for you. We’ll have some.
Some have asked about the attendee list and how that was generated. It was first-come, first-served. I didn’t pick tea party people or anyone else. They picked themselves. I’ll be intersted to hear from the tea party folks as, if the republican slate goes through in May, they will have a functional governing majority on the Council.
March 7, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Nicely written…my compliments.
March 7, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Grateful for the city website’s media center – I was able to watch the part of the council meeting I missed (presentation of the proposed budget by Pat Weiler) due to the technical problems during the live broadcast. See you Saturday.
March 8, 2012 at 1:54 pm
@Andy,
I know this is off topic but the more I bring up the issue the more I realize people simply don’t know about it……CREMATORY. Since air is not stagnant why wasn’t it required that all city residents be notified.
I am sure Pierce Funeral Home will have top-of-the-line equipment to eliminate most of the odor and visible smoke but those features do not address the many other concerns associated with a crematory (there are many). Number one reason for concern: there are no federal or state regulations restricting mercury emissions from a crematoria.
March 9, 2012 at 3:34 pm
4kids…there already is one about another 2 blocks down the road.
It was written up in the paper, If people don’t read it…you can’t expect city hall to fix stupid. If the state or federal government doesn’t care do you think the average Joe does?
Teach me…where would the mercury come from?…’cause I wouldn’t have thought anything about mercury…diseases, yes.
Another point, we’re all gonna die, some sooner than others…just wasn’t sure if that thought crossed your mind.
March 9, 2012 at 3:37 pm
AND BTW…we used to play with mercury in science class, roll it around on the tables, drop it and watch it come back together, etc, etc . Now they call out the hazmate units!
March 9, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Not that concerns about mercury aren’t valid, but does the City have the authority to impose environmental restrictions that are over and above federal and state standards? Would the City doing so just set us up for yet another lawsuit?
March 9, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Mercury would come from teeth fillings according to the report.
March 9, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Looking forward to taking you up on your kind offer, Andy, and meeting and hearing the viewpoints of everyone.
March 10, 2012 at 8:32 am
I second Dan’s thought. Sorry Marci can’t make it. I hope you have some one in the bullpen warming up to take her place.
March 10, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Another off topic thing but for those who regularly visit InsideNOVA 9500 Liberty has made a headline again and not the good kind like you want: http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2012/mar/10/flags-stir-controversy-manassas-ar-1755834/. You’d think the N&M would tell the City’s side too instead just quoting Fernandez for at least 90% of the “article”…
March 12, 2012 at 7:19 pm
@WSGFN,
Mercury was is only ONE of the many issues I have with this place. As for “we are all going to die of something”…..cop out answer. We may as all smoke, eat loads of unhealthy foods, etc.. Sorry, I want to cut my loses and maintain my property values. BTW doe you work for the funeral home?
March 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm
@WSGFN
I do know there is another crematory and it is located closer to my house. So NO I am NOT STUPID. That crematory does not have a church and two schools across the street from it.
March 15, 2012 at 4:53 am
Council members, as there is already a perfectly legal cremetorium down the street from this one, and assuming that the other funeral home will install theirs to the letter of the law followed by the first funeral home, I have a couple questions.
How many people from Pennington and All Saints (assuming its an issue to them at all) protesting the oven installation by writing to you, speaking at public hearings, etc would it take for you to stop the installation itself or pay to perform a zoning study/review? Assuming of course that it was legal for you to do so.
What if they also decided to sell g strings and nipple clamps?