Sept 26 2022
Back to wayward Schoolcraft who was attending a 911 conference along with Stacy King who handles in office duties like flood plain compliance. Our current 911 Director, J D Johnson, did not attend that travel fun. That seems like a real hmmmmmmmmmmmm.. Why Schoolcraft and King?
In the way of business and tidbits covered......
CCC Prez Fran King Somebody keeps swiping
Commissioner Kinder's name plate
As of this meeting and compliments Fran King: they don't know what happened to the buried cable, over $1100 worth of diesel has been used as of last week; she speculated it would take $3000 worth of go go juice to keep the lights on; the generator tank holds 500 gallons; a new cable is needed and has been ordered by the power company.
The real story gets murky. Here goes.
As the meeting was opening, Ms King told the world, David Schoolcraft made the decision to run on the costly to operate generator instead of accepting an Elk Power offer to run a temporary line. With Schoolcraft participating via a phone connection, we heard nothing to deny that notion. Not a peep.
On this site we gave Schoolcraft double H over his sole decision, dumb bunny decision, to run the generator. For about three days last week we continued the online onslaught.
By week's end, we received a call from Dave and Fran. Both could hear all sides on this conference call. A perturbed Schoolcraft explained, all that crap about his sole decision, didn't happened. With Fran agreeing in the background, Dave assured he had called each Commissioner before telling Elk Power rep Rodney Nutter to forget about running a temporary line. Dave also provided: Nutter had promised to have the replacement cable in place in just a couple days. Under that scenario, he thought the generator would do just fine.
Now keep in mind, Schoolcraft was on that call during the CCC meeting and never said a word to correct King. The monkey was on his back and he left it there.
We think someone jumped ship in the night.
On with this Sept 25th meeting.....
Are you paying your personal property taxes? Are you paying Caesar ? County Commission (all three) voted to hire the Data Max Collection company to begin going after dead beat non payers. Bobby Monroe was the company rep attending this meeting. Making King and Kinder smile, he said, if they don't collect the past due taxes, the county would not be charged a penny.
Also, while they could go back five years, anything after two years of non payment, those are hard to collect. If their arm twisting is successful, Data Max will reap 25% of whatever is collected. Commissioner King fowrded: there are $1000 in past due taxes owed em.
Phone calls and nasty grams will be employed. Monroe: We don't harass people.
A collection company that does not harass? Everybody, all at the same time, hmmmmmmmmmm..
Having better DSL service has been talked to death for many years.
Actually, 20+ years ago when Frontier ran fiber cable right down Main Street, we thought all the problems would be over. High speed internet was here! Wrong. Turned out, that fiber does run thru Town but it kept on going without any local hookups.
OK enough side tracking, for this meeting, Terry Martin announced that a five county group (Clayberry is part of that) had just received $17 million for the new service which runs from Dixie up the two lane highway up into Roane County.
Hope they don't do what Frontier pulled two decades ago.
Angela Brown
Here's the skinny. Over a year ago, during a Health Board meeting, Ms Brown, she was Health Dept Director back then, brought word that they had the $$$ to build a soccer field at the old Filcon Industrial site near Walback. Sounds like a great idea since most anyone can participate in that sport, you don't have to 8 foot tall and weigh in at 400 pounds. Most anybody, boys and girls.
Since then we haven't heard another peep. In Clayberry, that's a signal of A: the grant crapped out; or B: the powers that be were fighting the notion.
Here's our best thoughts.
Since there are no utilities on that site and because of the cost to hook em up would be great, we think Ms Brown headed over to the Parks and Rec committee with her funded idea of a soccer field but to be build it at Clay County Park which is under the control of Parks and Rec.
Still speculating... our guess, that committee or at least one person on that committee, said no way Jose.
After taking that info back to the County Commission, the folks that appoint the volunteers to the Parks and Rec Committee, said we'll fix that problem.
For this meeting, Brown was placed on the Committee and the CCC gave the green light to building the soccer field at Clay County Park.
Know where we're talking? A couple years back the Pentagon decided to build a practice field there, out beyond the Howard Knotts building. After finding the ground full of boulders and a public outcry over the expense, the CCHS football practice filed idea was shut down.
According to Angela Brown, the new field should be ready to use next Spring.
Great!
While there, Angela made everyone aware, they are now administering the newest, bestest yet, COVD vaccine booster shots.
Here's the notice she provided:
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