When Cam Parry was appointed commissioner and made the liaison to the Coos County Solid Waste department he was provided with a copy of an Order and Stipulation 03 – 04-031L amending a franchise agreement with Waste Connections. The company agreed in 2003 to deliver a minimum amount of tonnage, “the prior three (3) years’ rolling average tons of acceptable solid waste,” to the Beaver Hill Disposal Site as part of its franchise and purchase of Les’ Sanitation. The order is signed by Ron Mittelstaedt, CEO of Waste Connections’ Les’ County Sanitary Service, Inc., and all three commissioners; John Griffith, Nikki Whitty and Gordon Ross.
You may read the agreement in full here Waste Connections
Records from BHDS and other locations indicate that Waste Connections may be “starving” the facility and thereby draining it of badly needed operating revenue. Until recently the current commission had not opted to enforce this agreement and Parry once characterized enforcing the conditions as “punitive”.
When asked why the commission has not enforced this agreement, County Counsel, Oubonh White explained that they were aware of it but the “board had made a decision not to” at which point Cam Parry demonstrating his prowess as an artful dodger hastily interjected the claim that the county is sending a stern letter to Waste Connections.
So which is true? Parry says they have spent a year looking into the county’s legal position. He has called enforcement “punitive” and not positive. Counselor White says “the board made a decision not to” enforce the order. Who is telling the truth? What is really in the letter to Waste Connections? Is it any wonder the public have little faith or trust in our commission?
SPECIAL NOTE: As a student of commissioner behavior since Kevin Stufflebean was in office I find Parry’s methods pretty fascinating. In the video above Parry, in an effort to convince his audience the board has been researching their legal position for a year, employs a technique of making someone else complicit in his claim. For example, he begins his spiel about spending a year examining the county’s legal position by saying, “and you know this, Randy”. Randy Sanne later confirms he had no idea what Parry was talking about but by claiming Randy knew, Parry makes him complicit in this ‘fraud’. Seconds later he tries the same technique on county counsel and looks in her direction and when she fails to acknowledge him he then includes “former county counsel”, who isn’t even present. (Former counsel was practically non-existent within about a month of Parry’s appointment). Parry, effectively enforces his claim by making unwilling and unwitting victims complicit.
Likewise, I recognized it immediately when he had his first ‘meltdown’ on the board. That’s what makes that gentle-speak he murmurs with even more creepy, knowing what’s really behind it. There is something wrong there.
Interesting, Salmonologist. Like you I have used the words “Cam Parry” and “sociopath” in the same sentence… more than once.
Am I the only one who thinks Richardson may have a few conflicts of interest going on here?
The more I know the more my head hurts.
I don’t think that the BOC (and private citizens who insert themselves into the county’s business) should be allowed to make ANY long-term decisions until we have an elected board. I have been lucky to be in earshot of Cam’s mouth diarrhea several times, and frankly I think he is a sociopath. He has never said an honest thing, really, and uses psychology 101 to rope people into his conversation even if you are in total disagreement with him. I do not want him or the other two clowns to make choices for the whole county when they are really just speaking for the dozen or so folks they are beholden to.
This smells folks. These people are corrupt. It is obvious this board and maybe the last didn’t BOTHER to do their duty for the people of Coos County.
It’s amazing that Cam Parry, who isn’t even running for reelection is making these monumental decisions that can change the policies of the County forever. More people need to go to the County Web page and and send messages to him and fellow Commissioners regarding your opinions on the contracting out of Solid Waste (the Garbage Dump) to this California company that Les’s Sanitary Services and I believe North Bend Garbage has committed to. Yes, lets give more $ to California! The end result is we will then have to pay the rates these people charge. If either of these Commissioners are defeated in the Primary are defeated then they both should resign their “appointed positions” to the Board and leave that duty to the highest vote getter. It’s only reasonable. I hope either of them don’t let the door hit their backsides on their way out!
Richardson and Pete Smart represent Waste Connections here in the county. Richardson is a city council member in North Bend and on the board of directors of SCDC
magix
March 11, 2012 – 8:12 am
The Richardson document references what Waste Connections believes it costs them to haul waste out of the county. Richardson, by the way, is NB city councilor, an SCDC board member and a site manager for the company.
So Richardson is the local face of Waste Connections and he’s already sitting on the North Bend Board? Do I have this right?
Everyone needs to start emailing these clowns and demanding public answers. Like M said, Cam swept down after just laying him off, congratulating Sanne , but not having the balls to tell the man to his face he had just laid him off.
I’m sick to death of these arses getting away with this right in our faces, and telling us to shut up at public meetings for “groaning”? Throw the turds out of the punch bowl once and for all. And wrest the public dollars from the rest of the Messerle Clan, every one of them sucking hundreds of thousands of dollars every year from the taxpayers.
Want to prove it? Ask the Port what THEIR Messerle does to suck HIS thousands every month. He won’t tell you, they won’t tell you either.
Where the hell is Sandra Messerles’ public financial statements, hell, let us see what our tax dollars buy Sandy, but she refuses. Let’s all make a stink about their thuggish treatment of her bosses, ‘we The Taxpayers.
Al Pettit crying cocodile tears about the lack of money, all the while he applies for and accepts thousands of YOUR tax dollars to beautify his private business? I don’t think so Al, you little Welfare Queen, tell us why you feel you are entitled to other working peoples’ money.
THEN you might have some cred again. Like that matters to thugs, and their wanna-be’s like Al, they are so confident they lay off their political opponants and we are supposed to show them some respect? I say Occupy the bastards every meeting, and make them answer your questions publicly.
Rats don’t like the light, neither do cock a roaches.
Also complicit in this fraud are the other two commissioners when they don’t correct Parry’s bull@#$%
The Richardson document references what Waste Connections believes it costs them to haul waste out of the county. Richardson, by the way, is NB city councilor, an SCDC board member and a site manager for the company.
Thanks MGX. Still look forward to commissioners nasty letter saying screw you Mr. Garbage Man, law suit follows. The stand alone Richardson document is unclear to this reader. Who is author, recipient, and what was intent? How does Richardson document relate to agreement? This long ago prestigious university trained lawyer person thought that the worst written county document (written by a legal trainee) was the 29 June 2010 letter to Colby telling him to shape up or ship out. This is worse. Four pages novation agreement? All could have been said within the four corners of one page – and had space remaining on that single page for photos of the family. Four months from time of agreenment to reducing agreement to writing? I thought that Haggerty, who like MacArthur before her, just faded away, was counsel in 2003? But, the last paragraph is clear – the county should have demanded contract performance by Waste Connections long ago. It’s also clear that by causing the solid waste facility to lose money and thereby causing the facility to be sold or closed helps Messerle’s apparent friends at Waste Connections. What say you gentlemen commissioners – especially you Mr. Parry – why action now and not earlier? Where is written document from counsel advising commissioners to enforce contract?