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28 <br /> County is in protecting the buffer. He said that a transfer station on Millhouse <br /> Road would hurt this school. He said that there are other sites on the top ten <br /> that are closer to where his family lives and he would choose those over this <br /> site. He said that there are children ages 3 through 12th grade crossing <br /> Millhouse Road to go to the garden and the playing fields and having garbage <br /> trucks on this road would be dangerous. <br /> Kevin Reilly said that he has lived here for 17 years and the TOC has <br /> been built as well as an elementary school and an animal shelter. He said that <br /> all of this will contribute to the traffic on their road. He said that there are trucks <br /> on the old Millhouse Road even though they are not supposed to be. <br /> Stella Mandeville said that she attends Emerson Waldorf School and she <br /> gardens and they sell the vegetables for money for their class trip. She said <br /> that if anything were to get in the vegetables, the school might be blamed for <br /> people getting hurt. <br /> Georg Buehler is on the Board of Emerson Waldorf School and his <br /> children attend this school. He said that they moved to this area for this school. <br /> He also lives very close to the proposed site on NC 54. He would rather have a <br /> transfer station site near his home than near to this school. <br /> Stan Cheron read a prepared statement on behalf of Yonni Chapman: <br /> "I'm unable to attend tonight's meeting to present my letter in person. <br /> Please include it in the official transcript and, if possible, read it out loud at the <br /> meeting. <br /> Thanks, <br /> Dr. John K. (Yonni) Chapman <br /> Orange County Board of County Commissioners: <br /> Members of RENA/CEER, HKonJ, and the NAACP will, no doubt, speak <br /> eloquently tonight about the reasons why considering the Millhouse Road site <br /> for the Waste Transfer Station betrays both the letter and the spirit of the <br /> decision not to place a WTS in the Rogers/Eubanks Community. I well <br /> remember that members of the Millhouse Road area were active participants in <br /> RENA/CEER meetings in recent years. <br /> The BOCC made a wise and courageous stand for environmental justice when it <br /> took the Rogers/Eubanks community off the table for siting a Waste Transfer <br /> Station. Clearly, prior to the high profile protests of the landfill neighbors, this <br /> had been the path of least resistance favored by the county staff and various <br /> power brokers in our community. Even so, the political pressure has been <br /> powerful and persistent to induce the commissioners and the landfill neighbors <br /> to accept a WTS in the Rogers/Eubanks community. Such are the power <br /> relations that perpetuate environmental racism and injustice. <br /> If there is a decision by the BOCC now to site the WTS on Millhouse Road, you <br /> will be responsible for a tremendous setback to environmental justice. <br /> In particular, I call your attention to a revealing dynamic concerning the WTS <br /> that has recently unfolded. Not long ago, Kevin Foy, mayor of Chapel Hill, <br />