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/r <br />kinds of considerations that you don't want, because then ~~ <br />some position instead of we are ~n <br />just flailing about at the public hearing <br />where some of us have a chance to speak and some of us don't and <br />won't - that we get a chance to actually confront the kind of <br />decisions that you've made. And I want to know exactly what those <br />decisions are and I specifically want to know about them in terms of <br />OWASA - in what manner has OWASA taken up the question of the sub <br />surface geology of this area. How have they gone about that. Have <br />they hired engineers from Raleigh? 2 serve on citizens task forces <br />and I have heard a number of presentations in the last year. I want <br />to know exactly whether or not those people in Raleigh are trained in <br />engineering or whether they are also trained in geology and whether <br />they know anything about runoff and whether they know anything about <br />the kinds of concerns that the citizens who are here tonight quite <br />reasonably have. I assure you that if you lived three quarters of a <br />mile from where we are sitting right now, you too would have these <br />concerns. With that in mind, if we can't know what your <br />comprehensive management plan is, then we are in no reasonable <br />position to ever come to a vote on it and what I'm asking you to do <br />is to came clean with us. I want a list of your priorities in terms <br />of making those kinds of decisions. T want to know what kinds of <br />people have understanding of .questions such as geology, questions <br />which have to do with water quality management. I want a list of the <br />people you consulted that the public can see and be able to make some <br />kind of educated guess and by educated I mean educated in the sense <br />of the manner in which you made these decisions - judgments about the <br />kind of land use plan that you are proposing for us. <br />There being no further comments, Chair Willhoit called the <br />public hearing to a close and referred the matter to the County <br />Manager and Town Managers to develop a strategy to proceed from this <br />point. <br />Don Willhoit, Chair <br />Joanna Bradshaw, Admin. Secretary <br />Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk <br />