The January 12, 2012 BOC meeting is available online and it worth watching a few minutes where commissioners Main and Messerle deny every communicating with structure committee member Al Pettit about closing the Coos County Solid Waste facility at Beaver Hill. [Begins at 1:39:00]Last December a complaint was filed with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission detailing several violations of public meetings law as well providing some information that indicates the commissioners may have been discussing the fate of solid waste outside of public view.
Committee member co-chair Al Pettit told a witness that the commissioners were “leaning toward turning it into a transfer station” and Pettit further indicated that Parry and Messerle were “working hard” on the project, however, this work is also not occurring with full knowledge and understanding of the public.
Further, Pettit in an attempt to persuade the witness to agree to converting the site to a transfer site for Waste Connections asked if this person would still oppose transferring the site if HE (Pettit) could guarantee that no one would lose their job. The witness answered, “Hell, no.”
The matter of the complaint arose after Randy Sanne spoke about enforcing an agreement with Waste Connections. Parry waited until Sanne sat down before angrily bringing up the allegations in the complaint. Parry and Main each insist that neither of them have ever spoken with Pettit about the facility or discussed solid waste amongst themselves outside of public view. Both repeat this claim again when I corrected a statement by county counsel [Begins at 2:05:00] and informed Parry that his anger should be directed to the appointee who made the statements spurring the complaint, not the complainants.
Since the commissioners deny “leaning toward” closing the facility either they are lying or Al Pettit was lying when he claimed he knew what they were planning to do. The dilemma for the public is to determine who is lying and why and what to do about it. In any event, this discrepancy coupled with the structure advisory committee’s closed deliberations and refusal to release public data casts even more doubt over the subjective findings that are to be presented at next Tuesday’s BOC meeting.
But just watch them flutter among themselves every Wednesday They have appointed themselves the official movers and shakers of Coos County.
Well every penny has been shaken from our pockets, and now they want more of the same?
These same people that crashed this county, want the keys to the car again. I say, not ever again. This county has to change it’s direction or remain the butt of Oregon.
The people in Coos County wonder why they have no jobs and the situation is dire. Wonder not! Just look at the shabby good “ole boys running the county and Port. No company running an honest business wants anything to do with this sort of insider cheating and plan old incompetance.
That was pretty rich… I mean really, what ARE these guys thinking?
At a crime scene the cops leave out details from media to help ID the real perp don’t know if you did this on purpose M but it worked out that way. Al has ID’d the real criminals and he is one of them
This is just too funny!
Al says, “This is good, Mary! This is some of the best fiction pieces you’ve done. We’re all enjoying a good laugh over this one,”
And then he says, “Phil has some interesting ideas, but I wouldn’t believe for a second he’d come up with something this ludicrous, so you get all the credit.”
No she doesn’t, Al, and you just proved it — and you proved it on Mary’s blog! We’re all enjoying a good laugh over this one.
Al, Phil’s name is not mentioned in Mary’s article where she reports the Commissioners said you were lying when you told a witness that the commissioners had told you they were leaning toward turning the Coos County’s Solid Waste facility at Beaver Hill into a transfer station, and that Parry and Messerle were working hard on the project.
She refers to her informant only as “the witness.” So how did you know the witness is Phil, if Mary made it all up?
You could not have known who the witness is, if the story was fictional — and to top it all off, you proved that Commissioners lied when they insisted they have never spoken with you about the facility or discussed solid waste amongst themselves outside of public view.
Al, I wouldn’t believe for a second you’d come up with something this ludicrous — but, you did, and you get all the credit for nailing the commissioners for lying.
You go, boy!!!
OMyGawd. I did not know we wacky loony “enviros” killed the Spotted Owl !!!
I did not know that.
Nor did I know that those nasty asians are causing “MORE” (that’s a quote) damage than WE are.
Brilliance on display for all the world to see and share.
She’s not a “girl” .
And you’re not tall.
But I’ve been watching the Port meeting, and I tell ya M, I am stunned. I did NOT know that “WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE, DID YOU HEAR ME? WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE”.
And what I took away was it has something to do with people not finding bar stools on Friday night nor parking spaces.”
I did not know that.
No wonder he saved Apple.
This is good, Mary! This is some of the best fiction pieces you’ve done. We’re all enjoying a good laugh over this one,
Phil has some interesting ideas, but I wouldn’t believe for a second he’d come up with something this ludicrous, so you get all the credit.
You go , girl!!!
OMYGAWD now we have our own Al Franken-wanna be-faux logger-tea bagger threatening each and every council member regarding their vote on the dastardly idea to protect wetlands in Bandon.
What is going on to poor Bandon? They used to draw the free thinking successful people, now it seems to be every teabagger in the county is from Bandon. What is going on?
Is it legal to threaten them like this guy is doing? Who the hell is this new:
“Hi ! I’m Indiana Jones – sort of – and I’m going to save the day ” who is this guy?
It would not be safe for me to attend these meetings. This is more like Soupy Sales than a government meeting.
I’m trying to watch the BOC meeting, but I tell you M, that dang Bob Main is the rudest public person I’ve ever had to watch. He doesn’t listen to his constituents he doesn’t like, he simply cleans his nails, throws his head over into the corner away from the speaker. I am furious, he mocks the speakers, he laughs at them, but most of the time he makes it absolutely clear he’s NOT going to pay any attention to their ideas at all.
‘But I love the “lady” they brought in, who complained about: Ta Da !!!! Only in Coos County—-the dump is messy.
Ohmygawd, what shall we do, the dump is messy, she’s never seen it so messy. Psssst. Lady !!!! It’s a F’n dump ! You want them to do what exactly?
See why the cock-a-roaches don’t like your light shining on them? They are so used to having their way with the money in this county, they don’t even realize what they’re doing and why it’s important that they stop doing it.
Is Jon Barton finally just doing one massive FU to the taxpayers of this county?
al is a nobody in this county, he’s being used as their front man, and failing miserably at it.
But that’s just MY opinion