{"id":2143,"date":"2011-04-22T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/disturbing-things-dr-noll.html"},"modified":"2011-04-22T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:19:39","slug":"disturbing-things-dr-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/disturbing-things-dr-noll.html","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing things —Dr. Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nDr. Noll posted a comment today about last night’s Valdosta City Council\nmeeting, and we thank him for his report:\n
\nWhat I found most disturbing are actually the following things that\nhappened at last night’s meeting:\n
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  1. \nA Mayor in absentia because he is celebrating his birthday and decided\nnot to attend because of a lack of agenda items for the meeting.\n
  2. \nA mother being harassed by Mr. Taylor who makes sexist comments when\nher daughter is receiving an award for an essay contest.\n
  3. \nA City Council and ALL of its members who continue to hide behind a policy\nthat supposedly does not allow them to respond during meetings. As if\nthey would respond before or after meetings.\n
  4. \nCity Council member Yost going into a tirade about my wife’s comment in\nregard to “boring” meetings, when she is referring to the experience\nof our children who have been sitting through quite a few of them by\nnow. Such meetings are indeed “boring” to a 9 and 12 year old.\n
  5. \nCouncil member Yost then goes on to “thank” all of us for staying until\nthe end of the meeting so that we could witness the important work\nthey do. Like what? The replacement of two belt press sludge pumps, the\nrenaming of a street? If there is an important piece of work Mr. Yost\nand his colleagues could impress us with, it would be a resolution to not\nsell water to a biomass plant that threatens the health of our community!\n<\/ol>\n-Michael Noll\n<\/blockquote>\nSometimes sludge replacement parts are boring,\nbut if we don’t replace them and the wastewater treatment plant\noverflows, it may pollute your yard or your creek.\nBest we take of it ahead of time and be proactive, rather than reactive.\nLet’s take care of a problem before it happens!\n

    \n-gretchen\n

    \nPS: Don’t forget to go to the Planning Commission on Monday.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Noll posted a comment today about last night’s Valdosta City Council meeting, and we thank him for his report: What I found most disturbing are actually the following things that happened at last night’s meeting: A Mayor in absentia because he is celebrating his birthday and decided not to attend because of a lack […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,120,40,2,21,22,32,3,54,4596,55],"tags":[8738,4692,8701,3862,1691,7,2495,703,8715,466,290,2371,6,8726,294,8727],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-community","category-government","category-planning","category-politics","category-pollution","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-21-april-2011","category-water","tag-biomass","tag-creek","tag-georgia","tag-john-fretti","tag-karen-noll","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mayor","tag-michael-noll","tag-pollution","tag-river","tag-robert-yost","tag-roy-taylor","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-wastewater","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}