In the PN&S of the 25th of November, the City of Vienna posted this Legal Advertisement:
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF EPA BROWNFIELD GRANT APPLICATION
By the City of Vienna
(In it, The City announced plans to submit a 2017 Brownfields grant application the the Environemntal Protection Agency (EPA) for cleanup of the former Johns Manville site).
In the notice, several locations were noted to review the the application:
City of Vienna;
Vienna Public Library;
Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council;
WV Brownfields Assistance Center website: www.wvbrownfields.org
I spent sometime trying to locate this application on the website as of course much more convenient than dealing with any of the other options for me.
It could not be located. Now the Notice as are so many items put out by the City was incorrect with the following: "Application will be available starting Tuesday, November 28th, 2016 at the above noted locations".
First of all, Tuesday is the "29th". Secondly, it has also noted as the 28th, Monday which would have been correct for the date.
Secondly, the actual Public Meeting is scheduled for 6:30- 8:00 P.M. on the 29th at the Wayside United Methodist Church on 30th & Grand Central".
"Public Meeting- Johns Manville grant
When Tue, November 29, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
WhereWayside United Methodist Church- 3001 Grand Central Ave. (map)
DescriptionJohns Manville clean-up grant meeting. Meeting will be held in the gymnasium, around back- 30th Street & Grand Central Ave".
Now this if true on the Tuesday (29th), versus the (Monday), 28th allows little or no time for anyone to review at any of the three locations locally. Or, as is also too often the case the Meeting date/ place wrong too? This would be little more than lip service to the EPA desire that the Public participate in the application process and that Community needs are being considered?
I finally e-mailed the contact site for the above reference website with the following response from them:
"I'm not sure what you are looking for. We do not post (My emphasis), other applicants applications on our website. What website are you looking at"? (Put my IT guy on it and eventually found the site, but no application)? Is good to see that the Federal Level still has some of the same as we do here?
Amanda Sutton
EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Communications
This smacks of the usual misinformation, misdirection, deceit, deception and when the opportunity presents to lie? As it stands now, I would suspect that most if not nearly all at the Meeting will be supporters only to insure a presentation of outright support for what ever is in the "Draft"? Now remember the "Draft" as will be presented at the Meeting, where ever and whenever does NOT mean it will be what is actually sent to the EPA? It is ONLY for show to whomever attends the meeting and can/ will be changed to meet the actual agenda of Mr. Rapp as he may decide?
I have tried over and over to warn/ alert/ caution you folks on the hidden agenda of Mr. Rapp. He has publicly stated there is NO CONTAMINATION on the Western side of the park. That goes completely against the 2013- 2014 site survey which he also claims he never saw? IF I and I repeat IF I requested a report that ran over 300 pages and the City paid some or all of the cost, I for damn sure would have found time to review it. I am going to again allege he is lying on the above two points?
There is allegedly another later review in 2015 of 165 pages that supposedly refutes the initial findings? If true, than the company which was Vienna's old buddy Triad and did the first one, screwed the pooch? I do not believe that as it was not a white wash type of report.
Now there will be for sure other shoes to hit the floor. The City of Vienna is like an Octopus with many legs/ feet that seem to work as needed to achieve a predetermined reason/ result?
I truly am not sure why I am even bringing this up again as so many of you have expressed an absolute disregard for the Public Safety of the City from the youngest baby to the oldest Grandma'. But that is not what I do; I try to protect/ help the folks from people just like I am doing now.
But, I feel there are so MANY unanswered questions and the information coming out of Mr. Rapp is for damn sure ambiguous at best? He is desperate and I repeat desperate to get that mess up and running to justify the expense to date and again as much or more in the future.
So I again ask "What the Hell is going on"? 'nuff said'.