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before the landfill was placed in the community, it has been an extended community. He read <br /> a resolution: <br /> Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) <br /> Coalition to End Environmental Racism <br /> Minister Robert Campbell <br /> May 18, 2009 <br /> Resolution acknowledging the Rogers-Eubanks and Millhouse Road-Jericho Road <br /> neighborhoods as one extended community. <br /> Whereas, the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners have recently discussed consideration of property on Millhouse Road as a <br /> future site of a solid waste transfer station; <br /> Whereas the residents of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) have <br /> presented the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners documentation of their social, cultural, and historical connection with Millhouse <br /> Road as one extended community, <br /> Whereas the residents of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) have <br /> presented documentation of OWASA having produced water and sewer service cost estimates <br /> for the Historic Rogers-Eubanks Road Community that included the Millhouse Road and New <br /> Jericho Road neighborhoods. <br /> Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and the <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners accept the accompanying documents that establish <br /> the connection between the Millhouse Road community and the Rogers-Eubanks Community <br /> as one extended community since before 1972 when the first regional landfill was placed in <br /> their community. <br /> Dale Hammond is a resident on Millhouse Road and he is opposed to a transfer <br /> station on this road. He said that the community has borne the burdens of this County for too <br /> long. He said that the residents were promised that the public transit buses would not be <br /> coming down the road, and they are. He said that they have had the landfill, the animal <br /> shelter, and the Town Operations Center. He asked the Board to remove Millhouse Road from <br /> consideration. <br /> Judy Nunn-Snipes said that she was representing two people that are still alive and <br /> one who is recently deceased — her mother Gertrude Rogers Nunn, Effie Merritt Nunn, and <br /> Julia Blackwell (deceased). She said that this community has been established as one <br /> community and it has never been separate and apart. She said that they have been <br /> encroached upon now and they are now in a war zone. She said that her mother has had to <br /> worry that her home will be taken away from her. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Nunn, owned <br /> this land in the early 1900's. She said that so many of her family members have lost their land <br /> to different operations. She said that this site would add insult to injury to a community that <br /> does not deserve it. She asked the Board to think very seriously before making this <br /> consideration. <br />