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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 7, 2009 Approved June 3, 2009 Carrboro you have a lot more say than I do . I cannot vote for him . We are in no-mans land . My summary is we consider this one in the same as Eubanks Rd . If the position is not on Eubanks Rd . ' then the position should also be ' not on Millhouse Rd . ' One more point that I find a little extremely disturbing, Site 17 was the Blackwood property . That property was in that family since 1750 . It was a land grant from the King of England to the Blackwood family . Mrs . Blackwood owned that property and she considered it a legacy worth fighting for . It wound up that her only choice with that property was to sell it to the County . No one else was interested because of the history and background of the landfill being in that area . I also find it quite unusual that this now surfaces with a few weeks after Mrs . Blackwood dies . They made promises to her about the use of that property and it wasn' t for a waste transfer station and it wasn' t for a landfill . Once again we come to a point where promises were made . Smith asks where is the Blackwood property . Carver states that it is across the railroad tracks around the curve and it' s the red brick house that sets on the corner . The property extends to the back of the landfill . It is a tempting and wonderful site . The County owns it, they don' t have to buy it, it' s there, it' s next to the existing landfill; the temptation is tremendous . That does not make it right. Sassaman suggests to Mr . Carver to communicate at the appropriate time to the BOCC . They are the body that makes the decision . Bonnie Hauser states speaking on behalf of Orange County Voice I would like to first thank Al Vickers and BJ Tipton for having the courage to stand behind their principles and speak out against the waste transfer station in Bingham [Township] . That is what the citizens of Orange County expect from this Board - principled stands . I also wanted to clarify I know that Commissioner Yuhasz is new to the board, but I think that it is really important that he clarify when he is speaking for himself and when he is speaking for the Board . When he spoke about vendors as alternatives at the meeting on the 31St, he was not speaking for the Board, at least that is what I ' ve heard from other Board members . We were surprised that after two long work sessions with this board and after your deliberation and your vote that the resolutions that were discussed by this board were not presented to the BOCC . There was no notification to the public about a change . The citizens of Orange County expect this board to represent their interest in an open and transparent manner . We were very displeased at the resolutions presented . One 4