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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> June 3, 2009 <br /> August 6, 2009 <br /> Wilson asks Bonnie what was _ the Rogers Rd . neighborhood ' s response, involvement, <br /> or opposition to the Towns Operation Center when it was developed in that same <br /> area . <br /> Norwood states that a lot more attention was being paid to transfer station issue and <br /> the promises issue than was the operations center or the bus garage or the <br /> development across the street or the habitat development or the Green Tract issue or <br /> any other things . They were completely involved in the transfer station . <br /> Wilson states that since the transfer station will generate significantly less traffic than <br /> any of those other things you just mentioned I wonder why . <br /> Norwood states that I ' ve often wondered the same thing with the Animal Shelter <br /> being there, this office coming here . With the Animal Shelter, it' s not just the shelter <br /> but also Animal Control and all their offices . I kept mentioning that there was a <br /> bigger picture but as I told the newspaper, I can ' t speak to oppression . I ' ve lived here <br /> 23 years but that is not my culture and the promises that were made were made <br /> before I was here . All I can do is support the beliefs and feelings of the people in the <br /> neighborhood and they wanted to focus on the transfer station fight. Quite frankly I <br /> don ' t think we could have beat the Town out of the garage or the Animal Shelter or <br /> anything else, because it has been shown to us in meetings that the Town will do what <br /> they are going to do . <br /> Bowerman states that I don ' t think that anybody in any way made it clear before those <br /> were already done deals . I don ' t think anybody had any input whatsoever and that' s <br /> why nobody said anything they couldn' t. I don' t think we knew what it was until <br /> two months after they put it up . <br /> Norwood states that that is why I got on every board that I could so that I would have <br /> the information so that when the neighborhood came to me I could say " this is here, <br /> this is there " and I have spent many years going to these meetings . <br /> Sassaman states that to sum this up for you Steve, it is what I think and I hope is what <br /> the rest of the board is saying, sort of what I said before . I think the Millhouse Rd . site <br /> to me appears from an operational standpoint be a no-brainer . It' s a good site <br /> operationally, assuming it can be shoehorned into that piece of property . Certainly <br /> economically it' s got some benefits . From an environmental standpoint, I think not <br /> having seen the wetland analysis and not having seen an endangered species analysis <br /> and all the rest of it, but those more generic environmental issues of emissions and the <br /> rest of that, it also makes a lot of sense and it seems to be a superior site . <br /> However there is the issue of the people, that whole demographic, social economic, <br /> impact issue . That will probably exist no matter where we try to put a waste transfer <br /> 13 <br />