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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 7, 2009 <br /> Approved June 3, 2009 <br /> Regarding the issue of Al Vickers ' transfer station resolution I would like to distribute <br /> the vote . Of seven members there were four " no " s, one abstention and two " yes " s . <br /> Vickers states that if this is going to be distributed, distribute the request for vote also . <br /> Aicdience Comments <br /> Gary Carver of Blackwood Mountain Road states that it has been quite some time <br /> since I 've attended some of your meetings . Most of you were not here the last time I <br /> was here so you may not know me . I live off Millhouse Rd . What I ' d like to talk <br /> about are some facts and some methods . I have limited facts . I acknowledge I don' t <br /> know if they are accurate and I don' t know how true they are, however I find them <br /> quite disturbing . I find them disturbing in the fact that it pertains to Millhouse Rd . <br /> and as far as I know no one on Millhouse Rd . knows about this . <br /> The facts as I know them are as follows : The proposed transfer station site is out on <br /> [Hwy] 54 . I don' t know where that is . I really don' t care . All I know is what I read in <br /> the paper . There has been a lot of push back . Now it seems that �there is a current that <br /> says " Let' s just keep it in the neighborhood it has always been in and that s this <br /> neighborhood . I don' t live on Rogers Rd . , but I am part of the neighborhood . We <br /> stood with Rogers Rd . when no one else stood with them . The groups that are <br /> standing with them now are newcomers . <br /> I ' ve heard that there is a little secret get together that is now proposing the waste <br /> transfer station site goes on Millhouse or somewhere thereabouts . Specifically I do <br /> not know . I have two guesses - the Blackwood property and the property adjacent to <br /> the [Town] operations center . I understand the heat that has been generated and why <br /> you would want to consider that proposal . My position is we are not saying " not in <br /> my back yard " we are saying " not in my back yard no longer " . We have put up with it <br /> for 30 years . Whether it is on Millhouse or Eubanks it is still the same neighborhood . <br /> We consider ourselves pretty close to Rogers Rd . and we consider ourselves closer to <br /> Eubanks . I don' t know if the proposal is an official one and I don' t know where it <br /> stands, I do know enough that it is spreading around and I take it at this point to be <br /> true . If you want to deny those rumors now is the time to do it. I ' ve also heard that <br /> the Mayor [of Chapel Hill] , which we can' t vote for or against, has held his meetings <br /> with the group from Rogers Rd . and trying to divide and conquer . He wants the <br /> Rogers Rd . group to say OK to put it on Millhouse, it' s not really Rogers Rd . so why <br /> don' t you join us and come out and say this is a great idea . It is not a great idea . It is <br /> no better on Millhouse than it is on Eubanks . <br /> To give you some background, a long, long time ago there were no landfills on <br /> Eubanks Rd . It was shoved down their throat because it was the neighborhood that <br /> had no say . People want to deny that but that is the truth . Not too long ago when the <br /> first part of the landfill started to fill up there was a proposal for a new landfill so they <br /> 2 <br />