I am to say "Thank You" to Mr. Deitzler and Company for the latest request for contact by people not just here, but in other places who may have been poisoned by the C8 that was dumped on Vienna and surrounding areas for decades?
I am going to say that I have talked to him several times about the potential issues here and the need for people to be tested as well as BOAZ. It has come to me as late as mid 2016 that several of the folks were diagnosed with various issues that were said to be caused by the C8 in the past decades.
We will everywhere continue to be subjected to C8 in the air, dirt, rain for probably an unknown time? Yes, we have many Water Filtration Systems to purify the drinking water, but nothing for the other potential exposures. Ms. Brenda Powell has advised she is on a Cancer Hunt by wanting to speak with people who have had or may have Cancer. She needs to be advised to check the HIPA Law very carefully before she starts her interrogations. It is possible to violate that Law very easily if one is not careful?
Lets do a bit on the 25 Jan 2018 City Council Meeting.
For reasons I am not sure of, I went to the City Site for live feeds. I did not believe the City would already be Censoring what went on in the above meeting? I did not check the other one but the 25 Jan Meeting on the City Site was 1 hour, 8 minutes and 59 seconds= 01: 08: 59. And that included the 14 minutes that the Council was in Executive Session!. My notes for that meeting EXCLUDING the Executive Session went for 1 hour, 35 minutes. So it appears and has been noted to me several times already that the City Censored the daylights out of that Council Meeting. I did not believe Mr. Rapp and others would be so stupid as to be caught misrepresenting on "live streaming" (but recorded and changed), the Council Meetings? I will as we go on cover more on this.
How about that full page ad in the Sunday Daily Blat by Councilman Leach? And than there were the 70 fully colored handouts at the meeting. WHO paid for those? If the City, than another example of the massive waste that goes on. A full page ad would for the average guy be several thousand dollars. The handouts must have been in excess of $10- 15 dollars each? Now will tighten the noose on Mr.'s Leach and Rapp and whomever by saying that if the argument is that Mr. Leach paid out of pocket and the City reimbursed him, does NOT feed the bulldog. A single penny for that ad or those handouts is a WASTE to try and cover up the tremendous costs being incurred by us for Johns Manville.
Now, at no time have I yet said we should not have bought those acres. The seemingly practice everyday of this exercise has been the misinformation, misdirection, deceit, deception and when the opportunity presented to lie? As I posted the other day, we have to play this hand out, we are stuck with it- good, bad or indifferent?
To get back to the real Council meeting, I apologize, I digressed. As those of us at the meeting and those who tried to catch it on the tape, Mr. Leach made an excellent presentation. What bothers me is he does it as if he was addressing a Jury in a Court Room.
Here is where it goes South, I have been told by Attorneys here and read on websites that it is perfectly permissible to lie to win a case. That is right, LYING is a permissible Legal Tactic in a Court Room. The City Council Chamber is NOT a Court Room. The Truth should be what reigns and not a bull s*** story. Try to remember that Mr. Leach- City Council is NOT a Court Room. You actually insult all the attendees less the few sycophants for and of the City. I am going to state that I think you are an absolute disgrace as a City Council Representative.
Your position that of the 1050 NOW taking the PD discount only 60 would meet the below Poverty Level Standards. Now that was not the issue, it was the non stop increases in Taxes/ Fees/ Surcharges/ Rate Increases coming at those on fixed incomes with little or no pension increases in most years. It is those who are far younger and working jobs that pay just above the Poverty Level and in far too many cases work more than one job to survive. You and the other Elitists on the Council are completely out of touch with reality; and it is still harsh.
And again without taking a breath it seems, you went in on no Water/Sewer Increases in 13 years. And again Sir, there was an increase in 2011 and the two connection fee increases based on connection size in 2015/ 2016. So a little Truth, again should be put out.
Than on to the Seniors and the $1.3 Million spent on them. Again, the Truth was knifed in the back by the need for misrepresentation and misinformation. The $1.3 million may have been approximately $733,000., spent on the Senior Building? Than the City built the Randi Rapp Re-Election Campaign Building next door for about $567,000. more. A comment was made that 500 people use the Complex (?), every week. The original building is used by very, very few Seniors (sadly). The AARP Meeting may go 30 people and many of them also go to the Senior Luncheon of about 35- 45 people. There are a few other events like the Movie Night and what not, but usage is really very, very low. On the head count for the exercise building, it is said there are hundreds per week. Yes, but if a true headcount was attend just once counts for any and all, than the count would again I suspect be very low overall? Just because there are three classes as an example and 10 from the first stay for the second and third does not mean thirty people attended. It means 10 people attended three classes. And many of them are from outside of Vienna. And again, one could ask why people who have lived here for decades will not use a City Facility supposedly for them?
Than Mr. Leach really went off the rails. He said if one called, a Police Officer would be at any location in less than 5 minutes. Maybe, if one was connected? I can not get a Police Officer to my location in less than 15- 18 at best and than only about a mile and a half (1 1/2). And that was not even for me. That was with four on Patrol; two of whom were on calls/ stops; two apparently driving around, and the rest of the SGT's and the Police Chief piled up on 29th St.; at least eleven (11), Police Officers at the same time. Don't feed me that garbage Sir.
The City (read Mr. Rapp, Mr. Leach, Ms. Smith and a couple more), want the new Public Debt Workers to come and live in Vienna. As Mr. Rapp has said, those are the kind of people who should live here. With Large Incomes and High Positions.
And than he went on about wells 7 and 8 need to be worked on as there is not enough water from the wells at SAM's and on 58th to meet needs of South Vienna. Someone told me today it was for development of the Johns Manville site. I said the Park already had water/ sewer. This was about the upper acres.
Truth there is that the City let wells 7 and 8 go down as they were planning to drill new well(s) up on 60th St area. But what has screwed that deal up was they found out that the pipe from the North down is too small to handle the flow needed. Not so much a lack of water as one of distribution. The Rate Increase was to fund that, but now they are starting to shift money away from that for where? Rosemar extentsion(s), Johns Manville, where? As with everything the City/ Mr. Rapp says, it is a smoke screen for the real agenda and the people of Vienna ain't it.
Having been trying to get Chemours/ DuPont to rehabilitate 7 & 8. But are they going to be willing to spend at least another $3 Million for Water Filtration Systems? And the cost of cleaning them up for more production? He went on forever, so must go too tomorrow.
And this final desperate attempt to confuse folks with more show and tell:
Report of the Chairman of the Finance Committee
City of Vienna Economic Profile
Just more of the arrogance of this bunch. 'ne'er nuff said'.