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Regular Meeting of the Black Mountain Board of Alderman from October 5, 2017.
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A
A
B
My
father,
your
word,
says
that
unless
the
Lord
builds
the
house,
they
labor
in
vain
who
build
it
unless
the
Lord
watches
the
city,
those
who
keep
watch
watching
vain
or
thank
you
for
those
who
build
and
watch
over
our
town.
Our
mayor,
these
aldermen,
a
police
force.
Our
fire
department
in
all
civil
servants
bless
them.
Lord
and
through
them,
bless
our
city
if
their
work
not
ever
be
in
vain,
where
we
have
work
tonight,
and
we
ask
that
you
would
enable
us
to
seek
the
peace
of
the
city
in
which
you
have
placed
us.
B
Would
you
restrain
in
us
anger
and
pride
and
personal
agenda
and
all
unwillingness
to
listen
to
others,
grant
us
Lord
a
sweet
reasonableness
in
all
our
deliberations
and
a
reasonableness
that
seeks
the
good
of
our
neighbor
we're
building
us
and
watch
among
us
with
your
grace
and
wisdom
that
our
Labor's
not
be
in
vain,
but
that
our
city
prosper?
And
this
we
ask
humbly
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
amen,.
A
A
At
least
most
of
the
folks
that
I
know
that
we're
out
we're
very,
very
patient
and
we
got
it
back
up
with
Jamie
and
then
we're
ready
to
do
a
lot
of
work
on
some
of
the
lines,
but
but
those
lines
being
hot.
You
know
they're,
not
gonna,
go
in
there,
but
but
again,
I.
Thank
you
for
what
you
did
at
least
thank
the
men.
They
did
a
good
job
upcoming
events,
the
fire
department
on
Sunday
October,
the
15th
has
their
fire
department
open
house
at
2
p.m.
A
at
the
fire
station
on
Montreat
Road
on
Saturday,
the
28th
there
will
be
the
mini
Monster
Mash
at
2
p.m.
at
the
Veterans
Park
for
kids
is
aged
2
to
10
there'll,
be
a
costume
contest,
be
games
and
and
refreshments.
This
is
put
on
by
the
recreation
department
on
November,
the
4th
Saturday
from
10
a.m.
to
noon
at
town
square,
the
Black
Mountain,
Arbor
Day
will
be
observed,
and
the
urban
forestry
commission
will
be
there
with
snacks
and
good
notes
about
trees
and
how
to
take
care
of
them.
A
This
week
there
was
on
Wednesday,
there
was
the
walk
to
squawk
to
school.
You
know
that
was
well
received
by
kids
and
in
the
parents
too
I'm
just
it's.
It's
just
nice
to
see
how
many
kids
actually
went
ahead
and
took
advantage
of
this
and
I
thank
the
recreation
department
for
organizing
it
last
meeting
I
said
it
was
going
to
form
Blue
Ribbon
committee
to
look
at
parking
and
congestion,
and
we
met
on
Tuesday.
A
A
They
had
four
four
people
of
their
executive
group
here,
fortunately,
I
was
able
to
go
ahead
and
reduce
that
price
from
fifteen
dollars
and
six
cents
down
a
four
cents
down
to
eleven
dollars
and
sixty
cents,
a
forty
six
cents.
What
that
meant
was
is
that
that
amount
of
money
that
was
saved
right
then
over
four
years
by
reducing
of
that
price,
would
have
been
in
the
neighborhood
of
about
seven
hundred
thousand
dollars.
Alderman
Harris
realized
what
a
good
deal
that
was.
A
I'm
gonna
fall
sometime,
around
November
I
went
ahead
and
one
of
the
aldermen
asked
me:
have
you
seen
the
new
contract
for
the
waste
process?
It
no
I
have
talked,
and
so
I
went
to
math
latter
part
of
November
and
asked
him.
He
had
it
and
he
didn't.
He
said
he'll
be
getting
it
to
me.
Well
then
holidays
come
I
forgot
about
it,
so
I
didn't
really
follow
it
up
till
sometime
in
January
and
so
in
January,
then
I
go
to
them
again
still
doesn't
have
it.
You
get
it
to
me.
So
then.
A
Finally,
sometime
in
February,
we
get
it.
What
what
I
have
a
question
on
and
want
to
ask
Matt
to
clarify
and
I've
not
received
that
clarification,
and
then
I
spoke
to
the
aldermen
again
about
it.
We
still
had
gotten.
The
clarification
is
that
in
year,
two
three
and
four
there
is
a
substantial
increase
in
the
cost
per
household
I'm
just
going
to
throw
these
out.
We
have
copies
here.
A
If
people
want
this
twelve
dollars,
jumping
from
eleven
dollars
or
46
cents
to
twelve
dollars
and
nine
cents
for
this
year,
then
another
almost
fifty
cent
for
the
following
year
and
another
50
cent
basically
means
it's
over
100
and
dollars
for
three
years.
According
to
the
to
the
proposal
and
the
terms
in
the
proposal,
the
only
increases
that
could
be
be
added
to
that
would
have
been
because
of
the
CPI.
That
is
the
Consumer
Price
Index.
A
A
So
I
have
brought
this
to
the
attention
of
the
public,
and
that
is-
and
that
was
what
I
feel
comfortable
about
I,
don't
feel
comfortable
that
we
went
ahead
and
the
manager
signed
a
contract
that
increased
spending
by
over
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
over
three
year
period,
and
this
board
does
not
did
not
go
ahead
and
at
the
best
of
my
knowledge
and
I've,
been
to
almost
all
the
meetings.
Don't
recall
any
any
any
particular
authorizations
to
do
that
and.
A
A
chance
to
speak
to
that.
The
next
thing
glad
to
talk
about
is
the
is
our
fire
department.
I
mean
it's
a
police
department
and
the
work
that
they
did
by
going
down
to
Florida,
and
so
I'm
gonna,
ask
at
this
time
for
chief
Freeman
to
come
up
and
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
they
did
and
what
this
community
raised
as
far
as
water
and
clothes
and
food
and
money
to
help
these
people
out.
Chief
Freeman.
E
So
after
Hurricane
Norman
came
through
I'd
worked
with
a
lot
of
people
would
actually
move
back
to
the
coast,
so
in
essence,
I
was
kind
of
thinking
to
myself
on
ways
to
try
to
help.
You
know
those
that
I
knew
I
was
actually
approached
by
sergeant
Guffey
one
morning,
and
she
stated
that
she
said.
Is
there
something
we
can
do?
E
She's
I've
talked
to
some
people
who
are
willing
to
donate
some
water,
and
things
of
that
nature
she
said:
can
I
have
your
approval
to
move
forward
and
see
if
we
can
help
these
people
I
said
absolutely
I
said
we'll
just
do
something
on
Facebook
and
and
so
to
back
it
up
a
little
bit.
I
really
attribute
this
to
the
town
rather
than
the
police
department.
The
only
thing
we
did
was
facilitate
collecting
the
supplies,
and
then
we
were
fortunate
enough
to
be
the
ambassador's
to
go
down
and
help
these
people.
E
So
it
really
is
the
town's
effort.
We
were
just
the
ones
that
helped
facilitate
it
want
to
make
that
clear
off
the
bat.
So
as
I
went
through,
we
we
started
collecting
we
figure.
We
would
collect
enough
to
put
in
one
of
our
rooms
upstairs,
but
ultimately
we
started
collecting
so
much
that
we
had
to
move
it
downstairs
into
the
basement
area
to
accommodate
everything
we
were
getting.
We
ended
up
with
probably
close
to
200
cases
or
more
of
water
and
I.
E
We
loaded
the
truck
up
last
Friday,
they
went
down
and
we
were
fortunate
enough.
We
went
to
a
locally
Florida
and
it
I
don't
know
how
many
of
them
where
that
is,
but
it's
a
really
low
lying
area.
They
were
really
devastated
a
lot
of
the
families.
A
lot
of
the
homes
were
were
totally
destroyed.
The
jobs
are
very
close
to
non-existent
because
the
buildings
and
everything
that
were
there
we're
destroyed
as
well.
So
now
there's
no
jobs
for
anybody
to
go
back
to
once
we
showed
up
there.
E
You
can
see
the
photographs
that
are
scrolling
across
the
impact
that
our
town
had
upon
this
small
community
is
amazing
and
I
meant
to
bring
the
card
that
a
little
kid
it
wrote
and
sent
back,
but
basically
it
said.
Essentially
god
bless
you
angels.
You
know
for
helping
us
in
our
time
of
need
and
when
we
get
stuff
like
that,
you
know
it's
it's
a
blessing
to
us,
but
I.
E
A
This
proclamation
for
November
4th,
2017
Arbor
Day
in
the
town
of
Black
Mountain,
where,
as
in
1872
sterling
Morton
port
proposed
to
the
Nebraska
Board
of
Agriculture,
that
a
special
day
be
set
aside
for
planning
of
trees.
Andraz
this
day
called
Arbor
Day
was
first
observed,
with
the
planning
of
more
than
a
million
trees
in
Nebraska
and
whereas
Arbor
Day
has
now
observed
throughout
the
nation
in
the
world.
Andraz
trees
can
reduce
erosion
of
precious
topsoil
by
wind
and
water,
cut
heating
and
cooling
costs.
F
I'm
Teresa
Watson,
five
Watson
roads,
Swannanoa
I,
attended
the
coffee
with
a
cop
yesterday
Michael
and
going
was
to
make
sure
that
the
town
provides
the
support
needed
by
officers
for
their
mental
and
emotional
health.
When
I
asked
what
the
needs
were
of
the
police
department,
I
was
shocked
at
the
chief's
answer:
radios
vehicles,
vests
rifles
and
helmets
I
stood
there
listening
and
disbelief,
but
as
the
day
wore
on
my
disbelief
turned
to
outrage,
I
don't
have
time
to
deal
with
vehicles
and
best
tonight,
but
I
am
going
to
deal
with
radios.
F
Are
you
aware
that
the
Black
Mountain
Police
Department
can't
talk
to
the
Buncombe
County
Sheriff's
Department,
the
Black
Mountain
Fire
Department
ordered
the
ems
half
the
time.
They
can't
even
talk
to
each
other.
Imagine
that
in
a
small
town
your
officers
communication
equipment
is
so
poor.
They
can't
talk
to
each
other
across
the
town.
F
Are
you
aware
that
Black
Mountain
Police
Department
is
actively
looking
to
apply
for
grants
to
get
the
radios
they
need?
I
guess
the
biggest
question
is
not
whether
you're
aware
because
some
of
you
are,
but
why
haven't
you
done
anything
you
can
finance
new
fire
trucks?
You
can
finance
new
golf
carts.
You
can
waste
over
$200,000
sticking
around
and
make
tomahawk,
but
you
can't
provide
basic
safety
equipment
for
your
officers.
I
beg
to
differ
because
I
think
you
can.
F
They
are
sworn
to
serve
and
protect.
They
put
their
lives
on
the
line
every
day.
The
responsibility
for
the
safety
of
this
town
in
its
citizens
rests
with
the
police
department.
Listen
to
me
carefully.
The
responsibility
for
the
safety
of
the
Black
Mountain
police
officers
lies
in
this.
Let
me
show
you
a
picture.
F
This
is
officer
Ian
Amin's
and
it's
wife
April
in
just
a
few
days,
they're
gonna
celebrate
their
first
wedding
anniversary,
which
one
of
you
it's
gonna,
look
my
daughter
in
the
eye
and
tell
her
that
M
is
not
coming
home
tonight
or
ever
because
you
neglected
to
provide
him
with
very
best
safety
equipment.
Money
can
buy
to
do
his
job
at
last
month's
meeting.
The
hot-button
topic
was
the
parking
crisis
in
this
town.
I
guess
that's
the
big
issue
of
this
election
cycle
and
then
there's
the
talk
of
construction
of
a
part
of
it.
F
That's
going
to
cost
in
the
neighborhood
of
1.7
million
dollars,
really
in
the
light
of
the
lack
of
the
equipment,
the
police
department
has.
What
kind
of
fiscal
irresponsibility
is
that
the
police
department
needs
$70,000
today
to
update
their
radios.
So
let
me
tell
you
what
I'd
like
to
see
happen
when
you
come
to
work
in
the
morning,
Dean
I'd
like
to
see
you
throw
up
in
the
town
coffers
and
get
started
finding
that
$70,000.
H
Good
evening,
mayor
board,
this
is
a
public
works,
annual
report
for
streets
and
parks
for
2016,
it's
a
very
busy
year
and
I
apologize.
If
I
can't
remember
everything,
we've
done
so
I
sort
of
tried
to
touch
on
the
highlights
of
everything
and
so
to
get.
It
started
on
the
Montreat
Road
sidewalk
phases,
one
through
five,
we're
on
the
last
year's
phase
of
that
project
and
everybody's
real
excited
about
it
and
has
agreed
to
give
us
easements,
but
we're
still
lacking
and
I.
H
Think
one
supposed
to
go
signed
tomorrow
and
the
other
one
has
a
varied
design.
But
he's
he's
not
yet
went
with
that
being
said,
that
will
complete
the
Montreat
Road
side,
walk
up
to
the
last
piece
of
property
on
the
other
side
of
Flat
Creek
Road,
which
would
still
leave
the
Montreat
property
to
rainbow
Terrace,
but
with
reaching
out
to
that
town
manager,
and
he
had
been
in
touch
with
Matt
about
there's
still
some
ongoing
during
the
process
of
purchasing
that
property.
So
it's
not
been
closed
on
yet
so
we
really
can't
get
an
easement.
H
H
So
that's
been
worked
out,
so
we
can
complete
that
section
that
didn't
get
built,
but
because
I
just
found
that
out
just
a
few
hours
ago
and
won't
have
to
go
back
to
the
Planning
Board
with
with
the
Dean
and
Matt
and
see
what
we
can
do
about
getting
it
built,
but
she
has
agreed
to
comply
to
that
easement.
So
that's
good
news
so
that
have
finished.
Let's
finish,
that
up,
I'm
very
proud
of
that
cause.
That's
been
five
years
going
and
it'll
be
complete,
sidewalk
replacement
and
repair
for
2016.
We
budgeted
twenty
thousand
dollars.
H
Basically,
what
that
money
does
is
go
around
replace
damaged
or
broken
sidewalk
to
be
replaced
around
town.
We
had
spent
that
and
got
that
done.
Our
paving
and
patching
the
department
alone
put
out
41.4
tons
of
asphalt,
ourself
and
patching.
We
budgeted
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
and
done
our
contract
paving
work
on
several
roads
around
town
that
we
budget
for
every
year.
H
What
we
do
in
that
instance
and
I
know
we
don't
see
a
lot
of
them
now,
but
I
did
see
one
the
other
day
on
Portland
Bella
years
ago,
people
used
to
use
old,
hot
water
heaters
and
they
would
sleeve
them
together
and
that's
what
they
use
for
a
cold.
Of
course.
Now
they
don't
work
or
they're
crushed,
or
so
we
try
to
replace
them,
but
we
partner
with
the
homeowner.
If
they
will
buy
a
material
in
the
pipe,
then
we
will.
H
H
It
is
now
on
the
map
with
our
water
GIS
for
our
purposes
as
we
can
pull
both,
but
we
also
have
a
separate
GIS
that
just
has
the
storm
water
on
it
for
engineering
purposes,
and
things
like
that.
So
as
we
find
and
replace
and
get
new
information,
we're
constantly
updating
that,
just
like
our
water
system,
stormwater
ditchin,
that's
pretty
routine
stuff
every
year
that
we
do
get
examples.
If
you
seen
down
at
the
railroad
tracks
here
this
past
week,
that
was
in
some
dire
need
of
being
ditched.
We
got
that
complete.
H
H
H
H
We
got
about
eight
hundred
and
twenty
four
trees
around
town
that
we
do
every
year
on
a
three-year
cycle.
We
actually
started
them
this
week.
We
will
be
doing
about
350
two
trees
this
year
with
in
121
last
year,
and
that's
a
good
thing.
We've
been
doing
that
for
several
years
now,
so
we
got
one
guy
on
that.
So
if
you
see
him
out
on
one
of
the
the
Gators
with
a
tank
in
the
back,
that's
that's
what
he's
doing
so,
he'll
be
on
the
edge
of
the
road.
H
Treating
hemlocks
and
like
I,
say
it's
a
three
year
cycle
for
them.
Trees
so
and
I
will
throw
this
I
because
I
know
a
lot
of
questions
come
up
about
honeybees
and
stuff.
Like
that,
this
that's
the
whole
purpose
of
there's
different
ways.
You
can
treat
these
trees,
so
if
anybody
asks
you-
or
this
will
not
hurt
the
honeybees
as
long
as
it's
injected
in
the
ground,
we
don't
spray
the
tree,
so
so
no
honeybees
will
be
affected
by
this,
and
which
is
a
good
thing
also
on
our
parks,
projects
and
maintenance.
H
H
We
at
Carver,
you
know
the
guys
they
put
down
way
over
5,000
square
feet
of
floor
and
through
that
whole
world
and
I
think
taste
grit
and
if
I'm
wrong,
there's
only
a
few
rooms
that
haven't
been
done.
Maybe
the
hallway
remotes,
the
playgrounds
I
know
that
don't
sound
like
much,
but
for
state
purposes
it
has
to
be
a
certain
type
of
mulch.
Everything
has
to
be
measured
to
certain
Heights.
So
there's
a
lot
more
goes
into
it
than
just
doing.
Flower
beds
put
together
swing
sets
and
we
restriped
the
parking
lots.
H
We've
put
together
a
lot
of
cabinets
and
install
stuff
for
the
school
up
there
and
for
Casey
and
Lakeview
and
tomahawk
Reef
Lord,
the
kitchen
redone,
the
debate,
the
flower
beds
on
the
the
dam
we've
reached,
drop
them
parking
lots
and,
of
course,
if
you
see
the
new
picnic
tables
inside
the
being
over
there,
we
had
to
assemble
all
all
of
them
and
get
them
put
it
out.
But
we're
very
thankful
that
things
they're
there
because
they
go,
they
were
needed,
some
new
ones
and
community
garden.
We
built
three
new
compost
bins.
H
H
It's
really
a
lot
of
tree
removals
just
from
storms,
and
we
try
to
take
a
look
and
we
go
through
there
and
empty
trash
and
stuff
and
make
sure
if
there's
any
dead
trees,
we
try
to
remove
them
just
for
safety
purposes
of
people
walking
and
jogging
through
there
and,
of
course,
your
typical
mowing
and
general
maintenance
Town
Square.
You
know
we
put
the
bricks
in
as
people
order
them
and
your
general
maintenance
there
and
same
thing:
Force
One,
elevator
museum.
H
We
do
the
the
bricks
we
rebuild
a
training
or
a
retaining
wall
behind
there
put
the
big
rocks
out
behind
there
for
the
parking
lots
at
the
new
curb
stops
out,
restriped
it
for
them.
They
ship
the
rocks
in
we
place
them.
And,
of
course
you
remember
when
we
built
the
chimneyswift
paddles
that
was
in
16.
So
we've
done
that
and
I
didn't
put
the
golf
course
on
here,
but
just
to
add
that
we
restriped
that
2-page
some
places
on
the
cart
pass.
H
Well,
the
FT
put
some
culprits
in
under
the
car
pass
on
I'm
one
of
the
roads
of
dawns
of
the
golf
course
to
get
some
of
the
water
channeled
to
where
it
needs
to
go
and
remove
some
trees
and
we
relocated
the
water
line
for
the
stream
restoration.
When,
when
that
happen
and
lowered
it
by
the
creek,
so.
H
On
total
work
order
as
a
trend,
you
can
see
that
it
that's
went
down
a
little
bit
through
the
years
and
I
don't
want
to
sound
like
a
broken
record,
but
I
want
to
explain
a
little
bit
of
why
because
you're
going
to
see
it's
going
to
level
off,
but
it's
going
to
fluctuate
and
here's.
Why,
years
ago,
for
staff
reasons
we
have
two
types
of
work:
water
systems.
H
You
got
one
that's
called
in
from
the
public
which
is
generated
by
law,
and
then
we
have
one
at
the
end
of
the
day
that
we
generate
ourself,
which
we
call
a
manual
work
order
years
ago
on
the
manual
work
order.
When
we
come
up
with
this
system,
it
documented
man-hours.
So
that
means
every
person
that
worked
in
Public
Works
had
to
turn
into
work.
Work,
that's
different!
Now
now,
when
the
guys
go
out
in
a
group,
let's
just
say
you
send
two
guys
out
to
move.
H
That's
one
work
order,
they're
both
on
the
same
work
work
the
end
of
the
day.
If
you
send
four
guys
out
on
a
job
instead
of
being
full
of
work
orders,
that's
one
work
order.
Now
so
we're
trying
to
get
it
me
and
Laurel,
and
the
supervisors
have
worked
to
try
to
get
this
thing
leveled
out,
but
keep
in
mind.
H
It's
also
going
to
be
based
on
how
many
water
work
orders
did
we
do
and
projects,
and
it's
also
based
on
whether
if
you
have
a
dry
year
and
we
don't
do
as
much
mowing
that
cuts
back
on
work,
orders
and
things
of
that
nature.
So
when
I
looked
at
this
I
thought
wow
because
we're
busier
than
we
have
ever
been,
but
you
see
that
go
down
so
I'm,
hoping
that
a
level
off
and
now
that
we've
got
rid
of
the
man-hours
and
really
got
down
to
the
work
wars.
H
H
The
proactive
part
of
the
Dennis
chart
just
to
sort
of
break
it
down
and
show
you
in
percentages
in
our
work
order
system
again,
when
the
work
orders
go
to
Laurel,
they
are
coded
for
certain
areas,
some
stuff
ain't
coded
because
of
the
type
of
work
order
it
is.
It
just
goes
into
miscellaneous
and
broke
down.
If
you
see
like
the
miscellaneous
on
this,
the
the
twelve
percent
that
can
be
anything
from
Christmas
decorations
to
putting
flags
up
for
the
fourth
of
July
picking
dead
animals
up
by
the
road
or
de
breeze
in
the
road.
H
There's
no
work
order
code
for
that,
so
it
goes
into
miscellaneous.
The
big
part,
the
57%
over
here
of
the
work
orders.
If
you
go
to
the
next
slide
that
whole
chart
right.
There
is
the
57
percent
of
water
that
57
percent
wind
and
just
explain
a
little
bit
about
that.
You
can
see
it's
broke
down.
The
57
percent
is
mainly
parks,
and
then
you
got
the
Public
Works
facility
over
here,
and
that
can
be
the
saving
the
work
orders
that
can
be
rainy
day.
It
can
be
maintenance
to
the
building.
H
That
can
be
mowing
at
our
building.
That
can
be
anything
on
a
rainy
day.
We
do
for
maintenance,
town
properties
at
the
top,
the
61
that
can
be
like
art,
stuff
for
the
Art
Center
Town
Hall,
the
library
that
type
stuff,
but
anyway,
that
gives
you
a
general
idea
of
where
that
57%
of
the
work
orders
went
out
of
the
2106
downtown
restrooms,
that's
daily
cleaning,
that's
maintenance
on
BAM
and
things
of
that
nature.
H
H
They're
going
to
be
replacing
manholes
they're
gonna
be
doing
what
they
call
a
line,
burst
and
line
maintenance,
and
it
is
going
to
be
on
cherry
black
mountain
that
her
certain
church
street,
certain
Broadway
Richardson
and
South
Ridge
Way,
so
I
have
I
put
a
call
in
to
Daren
Prosser.
He
sent
me
some
blueprints,
but
I
want
to
get
further
details
of
what
they're
going
to
be
doing.
H
What's
going
to
be
Torah,
because
there
are
some
things
I'd
like
to
piggyback
on
that
with
them
like
a
water
line
that
needs
to
be
replaced
and
things
of
that
nature,
but
I'm
sure,
as
this
goes
forward,
they
will
be
getting
in
touch
with
everybody
and
and
I
will
be
in
touch
with
them.
But
it's
supposed
to
be
sometime
in
January
in
February
and
I
know
that
a
lot
of
the
works
of
some
of
it's
supposed
to
be
at
night,
so
it'd
be
a
good
time
to
do
it
in
a
day.
H
The
winter
weather
permitting,
of
course,
is
what
he
told
me,
but
but
anyway,
sort
of
gives
you
idea
what
we've
done
for
the
year.
There's
a
lot
of
stuff
on
there
that
that
I
could
report
on.
But
we
would
be
here
all
night
and
I
know
Angela,
don't
want
to
do
that.
So
so
anyway,
that's
that's
sort
of
sums
up
what
we've
done
three
years
got.
A
A
question
the
cover
questions
number
one
when
you
having
these
downtown
restrooms,
so
I
was
in
the
impression
that
we
had
that,
like
blue
rich
first
first
Blue
Ridge,
whatever
that
was
from
Ridgecrest
that
they
were
doing
this.
But
we
do
all
our
restrooms.
No,
we
don't
subcontracted
out
at
all
right.
H
A
H
A
H
H
There's
a
new
invasive
critter
called
a
mo
ash
borer
that
is
affecting
hardwood
trees
and
they
are
in
the
process
of
trying
to
look
at
alternatives
to
treat
that,
and
one
of
them
is
by
some
kind
of
wasp,
which
I
think
is
of
course
like
asia,
but
they
don't
know
yet
what
kind
of
effects
adverse
effects
the
wasp
will
have
in
this
region,
so
we're
fighting
a
new
type
of
critter
now,
but
as
far
as
I
know,
he
recommended
to
continue
to
treat
for
the
woolly
adelgid,
so
I
mean
I
can
check
into
that.
If.
A
You
want
yep
and
just
see
what
the
what
the,
what
the
what
the
overall
is
there
are.
They
gonna
be
moving
back
up,
because
that's
what
this
arbors
had
said
is
they'll
come
through
those
trees
that
are
survived
but
probably
or
naturally
resistant,
but
if
they're
coming
back
again,
I
don't
know
you've.
H
I
H
J
H
Three
years
ago
and
actually
talked
to
the
OT,
then
Chad
bandy
was
the
engineers
in
them
he
intern
at
that
time
said
he
had
some
funding
for
that
project
well
between
then
and
getting
the
funds,
and
he
had
actually
took
a
new
job
with
Asheville.
So
then
we
got
a
another
engineer.
I
can't
remember
first
name.
His
last
name
was
wills
and
it's
pretty
much
the
same
thing.
He
was
getting
us
on
board
and
going
well.
He
got
transferred
that
year.
H
So
there's
two
years
went
by
well
now
they
got
a
new
guy
named
Troy,
Lee
Wilson,
and
so
we
met
on
site
down
there
for
that,
because
anybody's
lived
here
any
length
of
time
knows
that
when
that
system
backs
up
it
blows
that
manhole
he
had
all
from
front
of
Hanson's,
well
putting
our
heads
together
and
try
to
figure
this
thing
out.
He
had
told
us
because
of
fund,
and
they
only
had
enough
funding
or
one
big
project
a
year.
H
So
hopefully
we
got
him
at
the
right
time
and
according
to
him
he
has
us
on
his
list
to
do
for
next
year.
But
what
we
needed
to
do,
one
of
them
was
clean
out,
but
they
hadn't
been
cleaned
in
a
couple
years
and
and
that's
what
we've
done,
because
we
want
to
be
ahead
of
the
game
but
also
I
got
to
Lucan
and
the
parking
lot
behind
town
hardware.
A
lot
of
the
material
comes
on
that
parking
lot
is
in
that
drain
under
Harry.
H
Potter's
building
comes
out
that
in
there
so
I'm
working
on
right
now,
looking
in
a
way
to
continue
to
let
the
water
do
what
it
needs
to
go,
but
try
to
keep
the
material
out
of
that
drain
to
keep
it
from
causing
that
ditch
sooner
than
what
it
should,
but
but
a
lot
of
them
trees
it
was
in.
There
was
just
trees,
it
was
not
planted.
They
needed
to
go
so
we've
done
the
banks
back
to
get
deeper
than
what
it
needed
to
be,
and
but
hopefully
they
can
get
that
plane
replaced.
H
J
H
H
It
left
me
a
message:
she's
posted
to
go
by
Ron's
tomorrow
and
sign,
and
that
will
leave
one
guy
and
he
has
told
us
also
that
he
would
sign,
but
we
have
met
with
every
one
of
them
face
to
face,
except
for
that
one
guy.
But
we
did
talk
to
him
by
phone
and
he
said
yeah,
it's
not
a
problem,
but
we
just
got
to
get
him
there
ahead
of
that.
We're.
H
H
J
H
G
Consent
agenda
on
your
consent
agenda
you've
got
the
adoption
of
minutes
from
September.
You've
got
appointments
for
Ernie
planning,
director
Jessica
Trotman,
to
represent
us
on
the
MPO
technical
Coordinating
Committee
and
as
a
member
of
the
Asheville
Regional
Housing
consortium,
and
you
have
the
acceptance
of
Locust
Street
as
a
publicly
maintained
street.
Those
your
consent
agenda
items
handle.
J
A
G
Yes,
under
new
business,
as
you
added
at
the
agenda
session
earlier
tonight,
the
French
Broad
River
MPO
is
currently
accepting
calls
for
projects
and
one
of
the
cultural
projects
this
year
is
part
that
they're,
allowing
as
parking
in
circulation
studies.
That's
an
eligible
project
similar
to
the
way
we've
done
bike
plans
in
the
past
and
pedestrian
plans.
The
total
project
is
anticipated
to
cost
$35,000.
We
would
be
responsible
for
20%
of
that.
G
So
there's
a
resolution
here
saying
that
we
should
that
the
board
is
in
favor
of
applying
for
that
funding,
to
take
a
look
at
parking
in
circulation
issues
for
the
downtown,
that's
due
by
October
25th
of
2017
when
it
wouldn't
be
funded
until
next
year,
but
we'd
like
to
do
move
that
forward
right.
Remove
that
project
forward,
please
I.
A
C
C
C
That's
the
last
section,
then
you
have
the
just
what
the
mayor
was
reading
from
the
motion,
the
minutes
from
the
August
8
meeting
in
front
of
that
you
have
the
pages
from
the
proposal
that
waste
pros
presented
at
that
August
8
the
meeting.
There
were
three
proposals
and
we
were
looking
at
the
base
service
proposal.
So
if
you'll
turn
to
the
second
page
in
the
handout,
that
is
the
basic
service
proposal
that
we
were
looking
that
we
were
discussing
it
was
presented
to
us.
C
That's
what
we
were
focusing
on
and,
as
the
mayor
said,
and
the
discussion
that
night
that
evening,
when
we
were
when,
with
the
waste
flow
people
hear
it
say-
and
you
know
and
I'll
say
this
for
the
public,
so
they
can
know
what
we're
looking
at.
This
proposal
comes
in
sections.
It
says
collection,
prices
and
then
it
has
various.
These
are
per
household
prices,
then
it
has
transportation
prices.
Then
it
has
disposal
prices
and
then
it
has
total
cost.
So
you
can
if
this
is
a
four-year
proposal,
so
the
proposal
was
1506.
C
That
was
this
was
what
was
presented
by
waste
Pro
for
year.
One
year
two
was,
you
know:
it
increases
the
cost
of
living
sort
of
thing
or
just
some
adjustments
in
their
in
their
prices.
For
the
proposal,
15.4
for
fifteen
point,
eight
to
sixteen
point:
twenty
one:
that's
per
household,
that
included
it
came
out
in
the
discussion,
the
the
what
we
call
the
landfill
cost,
the
tipping
fees
at
the
at
the
landfilled
and
so
forth.
For
all
the
prior
years
in
our
contract,
the
town
had
paid
those
separately.
C
We
had
a
contract
with
the
public
right,
that's
a
prior
private
contractor.
We
had
the
contract
they
they.
You
know,
of
course,
pick
up
pick
up
all
the
solid
waste
and
so
forth
and
the
recycling.
But
then
we
paid
the
town
had
it.
Just
the
dispersment
was
made
right
Dean
from
your
just
paid
that
paid
the
landfill
cost
separately.
It
was
not
part
of
the
contract.
C
So
that's
waste
Pro
presented
it
in
that
fashion
and
then
the
discussion
which
the
mayor
led.
You
know
it
came
to
the
tension
that
they
had
included
disposal
fees
and
landfill
fees
in
there
which
which
they
didn't
need
to
be
in
there.
Dean
pays
for
them
separately,
so
we
backed
those
out
and
in
backing
those
out,
and
you
can
see
on
page
2
of
my
handout.
You
come
to
a
revised
contract
cost
of
11:36
for
year.
One
twelve
point:
forty
nine
for
year,
two
twelve
point
eight
for
year,
three
and
thirteen
point
eleven
for
year.
C
Four
and
those
would
be
the
revised
contract
prices.
If
you
look
and
Matt
will
have
to,
they
may
not
be
able
to
do
it
this
meeting,
but
can
follow
up
and
explain.
But
if
you
look
at
section
21
of
the
contract
that
Matt
signed
the
the
per
household
cost
eleven
forty
six
year,
ones
which
agrees
to
this
is
my
worksheet
anyway,
since
then
I
prepared,
but
at
eleven
forty
year
one
agrees
year.
Two,
as
you
can
see,
is
less
than
my
worksheet
just
backing
it
out
and
that
you
can
explain
that.
C
C
That's
what
that's
simply
what
my
understanding
of
the
motion
making
was
and
so
I
think
it
might
be
appropriate
if
the
divorce,
if
the
book
Vil's
this
way,
we
can
you
know
we
can
address
that
anyway
in
the
minutes
of
this
meeting
or
something,
but
that
I
think
is
the
to
me.
The
the
story
behind
the
you
know
behind
the
discussion
behind
the
contract
behind
behind
the
proposal
that
waste
Pro
offered
to
us
the
adjustments
we
made,
which
were
kind
of
on
the
fly.
C
Frankly,
at
that
meeting
we
probably
should
have
stopped
and
gone
to
the
next
meeting.
It
might
be
a
little
clearer
and
easier
for
everybody
to
follow,
but,
but
that's
the
gist
of
it
I
think
it's
laid
out
fairly.
Well,
those
who
I
mean
I
didn't
worksheet,
but
that's
really
just
from
the
waste
pros
presentation,
so
Matt
what's
the
difference,
and
why
is
the
numbers
if
we
back
out
the
disposal
fees
from
or
the
landfill
fees
from
waste
prior
year?
Why
is
that
a
little
bit.
G
Yes,
well,
he
would
have
been.
It
would
have
been
more
than
the
numbers
that
we
ended
up
signing
because
the
1146
was
lower
than
the
number
that
when
you
first
backed
out
the
disposal
piece
from
the
landfill
because
we
were
doing
it
and
that
is
like
you
said
we
was
done
on
the
fly.
Probably
a
better
approach
would
have
been
an
approach
that
we
would
take
in
the
future.
G
Is
that
if,
if
numbers
aren't
correct
with
somebody
standing
up
here,
we
send
them
back
and
say
bring
us
correct
numbers
and
we'll
look
at
it,
the
next
one,
but
we
didn't
do
that.
We
tried
to
work
it
out
in
a
public
meeting
openly.
Those
numbers
came
back.
So
when
I
went
to
waste
borough
and
said
these
are
the
numbers,
they
said
that
you
know
if
you
back
the
disposal
fee,
that's
not
that
it's
not
1146
and
I
said
well.
That
was
the
motion.
So
I
got
to
start
with
1146
I
said
I.
G
Can
you
know
we
can
work
it
out
for
the
future
years
with
the
disposal
fee,
but
I
can't
make,
but
what
we
did
was
convince
them
that
hey
you
can't
go
from
1146
to
whatever
to
do.
1249.
That's
it!
That's!
You
know,
that's
nearly
a
10%
increase.
So
let's
take
the
increases
that
you
had
in
your
proposal.
The
three
to
four
percent
increase
would
use
a
slump,
we'll
use
that
as
our
sliding
scale
and
we'll
move
up
and
that's
what
and
that's
what
we
did
and
so
then
so
when
we
so
we
didn't.
G
I
G
The
base
year
well
debate
the
base
year
to
use
these
numbers
to
slide
up
at
that
scale,
but
even
then
I
think
we
I
think
we've
made
some
adjustments
in
there
because
they
to
move
to
move
it
up,
but
to
make
it
a
little
more,
a
little
more
gradual
of
a
gradual
of
an
increase.
But
but
in
my
opinion,
it
worked
due
to
the
towns
and
the
taxpayers
benefit.
G
C
The
motion,
if
it
were
going
to
be
corrected,
may
say
people
m-46
beginning
in
year,
one
as
adjusted
or
some
such
thing
we
could
we
could
we
could.
We
can
amend
that
and
at
a
future
meeting
if
we
want
to
and
get
the
proper
wording
in
there
give
you
time
to
think
about
it.
But
I
do
think
it's
relatively
straightforward.
It's
the
waist
brothers
unless
the
disposal
fees
and
then
you
met.
G
G
We
took
those
out,
but
that
dropped
the
number
down,
and
so
we
changed
the
numbers
as
we
moved
forward,
the
numbers
still
work,
it's
still
a
contract
and
if
you
compare
it
frankly
to
republic's
proposal,
which
was
$25
a
household,
it
was
going
to
be
a
number
that
we
were
able
to
do
to
to
absorb
where
the
continuing
contract
with
the
company
that
we
had
was
not
a
number
that
we
that
we
would
have
had
a
harder
time.
I.
C
G
Right
and
so
he
compared
the
numbers,
it
did
like
I
said
it.
If
the
next
time
we
negotiate
a
solid
waste
contract
or
other
contracts.
If,
if
people
want
to
stand
here
to
table
and
say
hey,
the
numbers
aren't
exactly
right,
we
should
just
say:
go
back,
let's
find
the
right
numbers,
let's
work,
let's,
let's,
let's
talk
about
this
and
bring
it
back
and
then
that's
all
that's
all
going
to
do
future,
and
I
think
that
I
think
that
that's
a
better
approach,
an
approach
that
will
that
will
carry
out
that.
I
A
There
really
was
in
a
way
that
it
was
discussed
that
docked.
You
know
you
talk
about
disposal,
fees
and
landfill,
tipping
tipping
fees
that
tipping
fees
are
one
separate
thing
that
does
not
have
anything
to
do
with
any
of
this
recycling
with
light
goods
or
and
as
they
said
that
is,
I
was
able
to
point
out
to
them.
They
look
they
they
make
money
off
of
our
recycling.
They
actually
get
paid
money
off
for
recycling
and.
A
Executives
that
I
went
to
city
so
they
get
they
get
paid
now,
it's
a
commodity
so
that
that's
the
commodities
prices
go
up
to
go
up
and
down,
and
so
this
was
not
done
off
of
the
fly
this
was.
This
was
done
to
make
sure
that
they
went
ahead
and
reduced
these
and
got
these
disposal
fees
out
of
there.
They
just
simply
put
them
in
there.
They
acknowledge
that
there
was
no
tipping
fee
that
they
had
to
take.
G
A
Is
that
the
checks
that
you're
writing
have
been
there
are
more
because
when
you
take
something
to
the
transfer
station,
you
were
charged
a
premium
four
dollars
a
ton,
and
so
ever
since
we
started
last
October,
we've
been
paying
almost
$1,000
a
month
more
to
the
county
for
the
tipping
fees,
because
we're
going
to
the
with
is
they're
going
to
the
transfer
station.
That's
a
that's
a
fee
right
there
that
we're
basically
down.
K
A
Nothing,
there's
nothing
in
there
about
that,
and
so
I
will
have
a
transcript
done
up
from
it's
from
their
tape
and
I
will
distribute
it
out
to
the
board
members,
and
you
will
see
then,
if
there's
nothing
in
there
about
that
it'd
be
great
and
also
to
the
way
I
understand
it
here
how
this
could
have
been
improved
because
we
didn't
say
we
were
going
ahead
and
approving
you
didn't
make
a
motion
to
approve
this
contract.
As
it
says,
you
made
a
motion
for
1146
for
four
years.
That's.
D
C
A
Again,
that's
what
this
board
needs
to
do
is
to
is
to
use
to
address
this
issue,
and
I
would
like
to
see
if
they
would
address
the
issue
on
the
extra
charges
that
were
being
charged
at
the
transfer
station.
It's
$1,000
a
month
that
we're
just
giving
away,
but
there
shouldn't
be
any
reason
why
we're
repenting
paying
back.
We.
A
J
Yes,
we
need
to
be
concerned
about
the
thousand
dollars
a
month,
but
look
at
the
the
big
number
of
what
the
town
citizens
have
been
saved
by
not
by
us
getting
this
board.
Mike
was
part
of
it
Maggie
that
we
got
rid
of
the
garbage
tax
and
it
saved
a
million
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
me.
That's
as
the
old
saying
goes
stranger
than
that,
and
it's
a
lot
on
the
camera.
That's
what
we
need
to
be
thinking
about
be
thankful
for
as
far
as
these
taxpayers.