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Mayor Foy: Please submit your questions, and I'm going to ask one of the <br /> leaders in this effort to come forward with closing remarks, the Chair of the Chatham County <br /> Commissioners, Gary Phillips (applause). <br /> Chair Gary Phillips: Panel thank you for your intelligence, for your organization, <br /> and for your commitment, and we are very glad to have you here this evening (applause). I <br /> want to thank you folks for your perseverance and for your commitment. I was struck, when we <br /> talk about safety issues, perhaps the safest thing we could possibly do is to ask public utilities <br /> not to make political contributions (applause). Every single day those of us who are decision- <br /> makers in all of our small localities understand in a deeper and a deeper way that the <br /> boundaries between us are just political and that we must begin looking at regional issues in a <br /> regional way. I hope that the forum this evening and the conversation that began here can work <br /> itself in many other directions that we can begin discussing with each other the important <br /> questions that affect all of us, and that by working together and acting together and demanding <br /> together of accountability, that we can make changes, develop relationships, and we can protect <br /> each other and care for each other. So I thank you for your time this evening. I hope that <br /> materials will be generated from this that will be useful to everybody. Have a good evening and <br /> God bless (applause). <br /> At this time, the forum was dismissed. <br /> Barry Jacobs, Chair <br /> Beverly A. Blythe, CIVIC <br />