…Dreams of You All Through My Head
By · CommentsFormer Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Dies
By · CommentsRetired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Steilacoom resident, has died, the Army said in a statement. Shalikashvili died Saturday morning at Madigan Army Medical Center. He was 75.
June 27, 1936 – July 23, 2011
The council has finally begun their long anticipated deliberation of the 2011 Settlement Agreement. Late last month, the city of DuPont held a town hall meeting to present the details of the draft settlement to the citizens. Signatories to the agreement fielded questions from the crowd via cards submitted during the meeting; however, all questions at that time that required a city response were deferred to a later date. The July 12, 2011 regularly scheduled DuPont City Council meeting is the beginning of the process where the city council will consider the materials presented, the testimony of citizens, and data of the various hired parties. This information will presumably be vetted against the city’s Comprehensive Plan, Shoreline Master Plan, and any vision the council, mayor, and perspective office seeking candidates may have.
The council has not set a firm date to vote on whether to accept this agreement, but based on the comments from the meeting it shall remain on their collective radar through the balance of the summer.
The video presented here contains only the portion of the last televised council meeting where the draft Settlement Agreement was discussed. The video clocks in just shy of three hours so you can certainly gauge the importance of this topic by the amount of time dedicated to the subject. That is the only edit of the video and I have provided no other commentary, sound effects, or musical accompaniment. I also will withhold my opinion on the Settlement Agreement until people have taken the time to view this video or otherwise educate themselves on the issues involved.
As reported in the Olympian.
Settlement announced for DuPont gravel mine
BY JOHN DODGE | Staff writer • Published June 24, 2011
A years-long land use battle in DuPont over expanded gravel mining and protection of the historic Sequalitchew Creek Canyon may be drawing to a close.
Environmental groups, CalPortland Co. and the state Department of Ecology announced a settlement agreement Friday that paves the way for a major mine expansion, but also provides protection for the creek and creates a 45-acre conservation easement on the DuPont shores of Puget Sound, including a pedestrian trail.
The DuPont City Council still needs to review the proposal and decide whether to accept the agreement, which would require CalPortland Co. to submit a new mining permit request to the city.
For more on this story, see Saturday’s Olympian.
Finally, A Machine That…
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In Dreams…
By · CommentsI Mustafa Been Crazy
By · CommentsThe so called “Arab spring” had many of us glued to our cable news, like teenagers awaiting their next text message. The world marveled at the youth lead social media revolutions. Tunisia then Egypt then Syria then, whoops…Libya and Yemen.
Of course, not every micro-revolution went without a hitch. Libya got quite messy and it was only a matter of time before consequences could be felt here in America, even DuPont. As fast as a French led NATO airstrike, the third world spammers got to work. Battle weary, I was ready and waiting at my firewall.
The first salvo was delivered a couple weeks ago.
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:59:19 +0300 [05/23/2011 01:59:19 PM PDT]
From: MUSTAFA GHERIANI [mustafagheriani@libya.gov.lbc]
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Reply-To: mustafagheriani@w.cn
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANCE?
I am Mustafa Gheriani a security officer to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
I have interest investing in your country. I am seeking for any short term income generating investment.. I am willing to invest eight (8) Millions Dollars in 2years and also wishing to relocate abroad, I am relying on your assistance in achieving my desire. Please email,The demand is urgent.
Please if you are interested, contact me immediately!
Yours Sincerely
Mustafa Gheriani
Interested? Damn straight I am interested, partner. I jumped at the chance at this opportunity.
(notice that the “from” email domain appears to be in Libya while the expanded header reveals that the message is actually going to China. The .cn Domain Registry is part of The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and was founded in 1997.)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:56:47 -0700 [05/23/2011 03:56:47 PM PDT]
From: admin
To: mustafagheriani@w.cn
Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANCE?
How can we help?
By “we” I meant the whole DuPont community. Think of what $8 million could buy. Certainly that could carry us for at least 10 more years of debate and studies on where to build a skate park (or, skate spot if you prefer). I was awash with civic mindedness.
Two days later I got a reply to my Samaritan-esque offer.
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:26:27 +0000 [05/25/2011 11:26:27 AM PDT]
From: Mustafa Gheriani
To: admin@realdupont.com
Subject: Thanks
Dear Sir/Madam
I am in receipt of your sent mail which is well noted by me, a lot of thanks for your concern in this transaction, please I am very sorry for invading your privacy. Like I said before, due to this issue on my hands now, it became necessary for me to seek your assistance, I appreciate the fact that you are ready to assist me in executing this project, and also to help me in investing my money in your country. You should not have anything to worry about. I will do everything legally required to ensure that the project goes smoothly.
But however having resolved to entrust this transaction into your hands, I want to remind you that, it needs your commitment and diligent follow up. If you work seriously, the entire transaction should be over in a couple of days.And I like us to continue this transaction via this e-mail account.
You should note that this project is highly capital intensive. This is why I have to be very careful. I need your total devotion and trust to see this through. Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the necessary trust that we need to execute this project.
I will make arrangement on how the funds will be moved in your name as the beneficiary where you may be needed to sign paper for the release of the funds directly; this is the best way I recommend for this transaction
Before I commence, I will need you to send me a copy of any form your identification (Driver’s license or International passport) . I want to be sure that I am transacting with the correct person. As soon as I get these from you, I will commence the paper work. I hope you will understand why I need all these. The money in question is big and I want to ensure that I know you well before I proceed to give you all the details to commence the project.
Thanks for your corporation.
Mustafa Gheriani
Hmmmm. Good ole Mustafa took a page right out of my playbook by asking for a photo for identification. Driver’s license or passport? I got both.
My passport photo thankfully changed a couple years ago. It was a hindrance and I was glad to be rid of it. I made the foolish mistake of being photographed with a “look” that I found impractical to keep for ten years, yet I posed at Kinko’s for my headshot anyway. As a result of this photo I was subjected to extra scrutiny and scorn for the duration of my passport term. On a trip from London to Amsterdam, I was pulled from line where I and my luggage was thoroughly searched by any reasonable standard pre-9/11. Again, this search took place entering Amsterdam. I guess they didn’t believe I was going to visit Anne Frank’s house.
I nearly freed myself for the burdensome photo at Heathrow Airport a couple years later. I was returning from Detroit to London. Somehow, I had lost the passport from the control point to my luggage carousel. I looked in vain for about 20 minutes but had to catch a train home. Great, I thought. I am living abroad and now I have no passport. I called the U.S. Embassy and was instructed to come and get a new passport issued. By then, I had gotten a haircut and shaved to a goatee. I went to the nearest shop by my office that took passport photos (it happened to be in Stratford-upon-Avon) and finally got a photo I could live with…or so I thought.
New photos in hand, I took the afternoon off and returned to Mayfair in London, to the U.S. Embassy. I walked in and told the desk clerk that I had been instructed to get a new passport issued since I lost mine at the British Airways luggage carousel in Terminal Four. “Hold on” he said, “Sometimes they will be turned into lost and found.” He thumbed through a card file no bigger than you might keep clipped coupons and within five seconds gleefully said, “Here you go. A member of the flight staff turned it in. Saved you some trouble.”
Did it?
I got the passport for business travel, mind you. I traveled throughout Europe and part of the Muslim world on those credentials. When I readied for my first trip to China while at Intel, I was asked to provide my passport to an administrator who would send it to obtain the proper visa. Well, evidently, the photo was too titillating for her to keep to herself and my passport was passed around a conference room at a General Manager’s staff meeting. Snickers and giggles aside, the Chinese passport control agents were none too thrilled with it either. The checker would look at the photo, look at me, and look at the photo again, all without saying a word. Finally, he would stare at me blankly and stamp it, waving me through.
I digress.
There was no way in hell that I was going to send a copy of my passport to someone trying to flee Libya, even if it is make believe. No. He will get a driver’s license photo, which in this country is nearly as good as a birth certificate.
I sent him this reply with this photo:
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:18:31 -0700 [05/26/2011 10:18:31 AM PDT]
From: admin
To: Mustafa Gheriani
Subject: Re: Thanks
Here is the photo you requested. It is valid to buy liquor in all 50 states and is issued in the same state where President Obama has a birth certificate, thus ensuring its authenticity.
What is next?
I am so confused. Is he in Libya? Is he in China? You would think with all of the pirated copies of SuperBad my ruse would be exposed, but evidently it was not.
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 00:18:31 +0000 [05/26/2011 05:18:31 PM PDT]
From: Mustafa Gheriani
To: admin@realdupont.com
Subject: My arrangement
Dear friend,
Thank you for your message and your information I received today,. I read your massages today because too many bombing yesterday and no satellite internet network were working except today. Communication came back. Please let me know what agreement and send me the agreement to me now. so I agreed with it.
I have no time again. So I can make preparation for moving it out of my country on Sunday. The company take this money to Egypt and they move it to France or Spain, you know American government refuse money from Libya to everywhere .You tell me if I can send it to France or Spain and you meet with the people there and in Europe tell the people to make arrangement to move from there to your country, I am moving this funds with the highest contact through a special diplomatic channel I can have now, we can not do anything now in Libya this is the only means to move this funds, I might lost the funds if I keep wasting time, this is all I have now, there is too much problem in my country right now. I was introduced to by a diplomat who works in Tripoli on how I can move funds through diplomats.
I will update with the arrangement, as I have start making plans today. This fund will be package and cast in safe deposit box register as consignment vault arrangement this is the safest means via a diplomatic means to avoid inspection, you will only demand for the claim of the trunk box. I will send you the unlocked pin code to unlocked the consignment after the clearance, you are going to received the money in cash, this was the only save and direct means to get the funds to you ,this is a every confidential and save means. I am begging that this is my life; I put my future and hope on this deposit as i want to invest this funds.
Regards
Mustafa Gheriani.
I like the salutation Dear Friend. Sure, it is someone who probably wants to scam me out of my bank information, but we can at least remain civil. Plus, I, too, am taking a liking to Mustafa. Friends do not seem out of the realm of possibility. Imagine if I started my three minutes before speaking to council about an issue by prefacing it with Dear Friend(s), I might be able to get them to like me too.
Should I ask for Mustafa’s photo? Naw, that scared my last scammer friend away.
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:41:10 -0700 [05/26/2011 08:41:10 PM PDT]
From: admin
To: Mustafa Gheriani
Subject: Re: My arrangement
I understand and will await further direction.
Regards,
Dang. I always seem to do something that scares them away. All I want is a friend where I can love them and squeeze them and call them George. Well, if he thinks that I am going to just sit around my email account waiting for him to feel like writing me back then he has another thing coming.
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:29:47 -0700 [05/30/2011 10:29:47 AM PDT]
From: admin
To: Mustafa Gheriani
Subject: Re: My arrangement
Mustafa,
I have not heard from you regarding this matter. I hope you are in good health.
Regards,
I couldn’t stay mad. Besides, maybe there were network problems with all the mayhem and chaos and airstrikes.
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:33:18 +0000 [05/31/2011 09:33:18 AM PDT]
From: Mustafa Gheriani
To: admin@realdupont.com
Subject: Final arrangement
Dear Friend,
Thanks for all your effort and patience to assist in this transaction, it is not been an easy job since it was difficult to move the funds out through a bank transfer as restriction and embargo has been placed by the international community I need to move this funds by all mean or else I will lost the funds here there way things are going, remember that most of our money here is not also kept in the bank because of the past government policy which will come to an end soon because the outside world no longer support this government.
I have been to move these funds through the help of diplomatic channel to their own security and Vault Company in Europe, I will get the full contact by tomorrow so that you can contact the firm and ask them to deliver the funds to through the same means, but I know them have office in Malaysia, if you want to travel to Europe or Malaysia or you instruct they to move it directly to you in your country, if possible let me know which of this procedures to get this funds to you if best to your interest.
Please, read the mail carefully and understand, if any question you can ask me.
Thanks very much for all your support.
Mustafa Gheriani.
Thankfully, he was ok. I guess pretending to be building a huge banking transaction and not have it sound like an internet ponzi scheme is hard work. Well, I work too, pal.
To be honest, I could hardly make heads or tails of what was really expected of me. Vaults and diplomats and embargoes. It all sounds important just as it sounds like complete gibberish. I think this guy has seen one too many episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies. Rubes like this can’t exist.
By now, my heart isn’t in it and I am growing bored with this scam that plays like a Beckett play. Maybe Godot never arrives and neither does my money.
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 22:03:06 -0700 [05/31/2011 10:03:06 PM PDT]
From: admin
To: Mustafa Gheriani
Subject: Re: Final arrangement
Based on geography, Malaysia via Hong Kong is better for my travel. However, I can also travel to Europe but will require more connecting flights. My preference is to travel Asia on Asian airline since American carriers have stringent security.
I will await your next instruction.
Allah Akbar!
So that is where it stands and I suspect that I have heard the last of Mustafa. Perhaps he was maimed in an airstrike or perhaps he bought a bootleg couple of Superbad. Either case would be equally sad, if it was true.
Remember: It isn’t a lie if you believe it.
Late last week rumors began to circulate, and later they were confirmed, that the Home Town Clipper would cease publication with the June issue. While I am sure that this is a surprise to many, it should not be. The cost of producing anything in print continues to increase while Americans have shifted the way they get their information to electronic media.
The competition for advertisers is fierce in the newspaper marketplace, especially among the major newspapers, smaller market papers can sometimes find a niche and remain self sufficient and vital. It is hard to say whether this was the case with the Home Town Clipper, but from the beginning we all should have known that this wasn’t publisher Rick Beaver’s primary business. The humble beginning of the Clipper was that of advertising Home Town Services and the associated carpet cleaning business. The handout; later, newsletter; later, pamphlet; later, newspaper was born into a community hungery for information. Beaver rode the wave.
The Clipper plugged the hole by providing news about DuPont’s growth, politics, community members’ activities and accomplishments, businesses, and military families. In a way, we are back to where we were at the beginning of Northwest Landing.
It is sad to see the Clipper leave us but understandable considering Rick Beaver’s last sentence of this send off letter, “[D]ue to personal reasons and health issues in my family, it’s time to say good bye. Thank you!” I know from experience that if your heart or head isn’t into it, then it is time to walk away.
DuPont is left to pick of the pieces of how they will carry on and get their information. A large tract of land still needs to be developed and a major decision is expected soon on the proposed mine expansion. There are more residents than ever who will be searching to find out what is happening when, where, or even why. A feeling of dread crept over me when I heard the news of the last issue. This web site, the Clipper, and any other collection of sources of information were created because of the fact that the City of DuPont is notoriously crappy about getting information out to its citizens. They still cling to the methods used in the Village (now, Historic Village) of expecting the couple hundred people to come to meetings and find out for themselves or tell their neighbors.
That is great expect for the fact that DuPont is no longer a village with less than a dozen streets and all houses are a couple hundred feet from City Hall, at its farthest. Since that model was established DuPont was the fastest growing community in Pierce County and now the housing construction is nearly complete, maxing out our population at about 8,000 soon to be ill informed residents. While it isn’t the City of DuPont’s responsibility to publish a newspaper, they should provide information to the citizens. To that end, they have all but surrendered. There is a crappy Friday Letter that regurgitates the City Administrator’s junk mail pile, and is there even a LISTSERV anymore? We have a reader board with the capacity of Twitter but only with weekly, manual updates. You get the point, whatever sources the city is employing it doesn’t really provide much insight to matters of city business.
The City of DuPont’s foray into electronic media is best summarized by it outdated and largely useless web page. That same lack of attention to detail is evident in the city’s Facebook page and Twitter account.
I am also sure there are a few at City Hall, and a couple council people come to mind, who are probably dancing on the streets (Kincaid, McNeil?) over the news that their activities will no longer be memorialized in newsprint. They are the shiny happy people who choose to arrange deck chairs rather than confront the iceberg just off of starboard. Or, those poor souls who felt that the Home Town Clipper wouldn’t give the city a fair break. Yes, I said they felt that the Clipper would not give them a fair break. Perhaps, due to their audacity, to reprint council meeting summaries or report on proposed tax levies, or other crimes and misdemeanors.
We will also lack a news source of achievement of locals who received scholarships, traveled the world for humanitarian missions, or who may have even captured a trophy for their work golf league. (Ahem.) Not to mention profiles of potential candidates for mayor and council. Yes, dancing in the streets.
Gone is the ability for local business to advertise to the community they serve. This isn’t just the bricks and mortar buildings in town, but the handymen, painters, babysitters, and other home businesses, much like Home Town Services. If you don’t think those little ads you see matter, I am here to tell you otherwise. After a feature article in the Clipper, and then later some advertising, my readership increased considerably. More than I could have mustered on my own without considerable cost. Small newspapers are a community service.
Just when you may think that I will accept the challenge of picking up some of the slack from the departed Home Town press, I won’t. Like Rick Beaver, it isn’t my primary mission and my heart isn’t in to it. I do not care about military life, nature walks, 12 and under sports, or Zumba classes; nor will I pretend that I do. Besides, clipping out an article about those returning from deployment or little Johnny’s first home run just doesn’t carry the same cultural weight when printing it from a web site. The times, they are a changing.
Good bye, Home Town Clipper. You will be missed, unfortunately in ways we will yet to know.
Tammy and Krystlyn Are Here, Sort of
By · CommentsAbout a month ago I reported the departure of Great Clips from the space between Starbucks and Domino’s Pizza. Now it appears that the space will once again host a salon, but whether it is as family-centric remains to be seen.
What is in a name? The last tenant was perhaps hyperbolic in declaring Great Clips, but the replacement’s name is vexing. The sign on the door declares “Christine Dior Hair Salon.” Was it meant to be cheeky or a bit of trickery? Perhaps it will be like a knock off purse or bottle of Eau de Toilette as advertised on the internet. At least it didn’t say Saloon, though some would welcome that to town as well.
I guess we will have to wait to see what we have once the wrapping comes down.
In Response to “What Happened?”
By · CommentsReader What Happened? asked in all seriousness what happened at the last council meeting regarding the mine expansion and renegociation of the 1994 Settlement Agreement with CalPortland. The simple answer is not a lot happened, What Happened?
Here is the text of an email I received (italics). It is transposed from a recording of the portion of the DuPont City Council meeting that addressed this issue. I did not transcribe the recording so you will have to take it for what it is. There is some editorializing but you will get the gist of the matter. I did try to format the text so that it appears more readable here on RealDupont.
Here is a transcript of the discussion last night (May 24) regarding the 94SA process. I taped this with my [phone], then typed it. A few words are missing (couldn’t hear, mics were going on & off), but for the most part it is word for word. Please let me know if you have any questions. Sorry if there are typos. I’m not able to work on this anymore today….sharing in hopes this is helpful.
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May 24, 2011, DuPont City Council Meeting
From the 1994 Settlement Agreement Discussion-Public Involvement Process, presented by City Attorney:
Bob Sterbank:
“Parties to the 94 agreement has been in discussions to possible additions or new agreements to the current document. [W]e are at a point in the process where the parties are near enough to say
that they believe that a tentative agreement will be made and will be reached shortly. [K]nowing that this body has expressed interest in conducting a public process before you consider and deliberate on whether the city should go forward with the agreement. Now is the appropriate time to determine if you want to go forward with that and what that might look like.
“When we last discussed this item the parties expressed interest in a joint process and what that would include:
- [A] public announcement once the tentative agreement is finalized.
- [T]hen, at some point around the middle of next month, the 17th or so of June thereafter a public townhall type meeting to be held in here in DuPont, not before the council, but for the public with the parties to present an outline of the components of the potential new agreement and to take questions and provide answer to the members of the public about the workings and how all the components work together in the agreement. [T]hat could occur on Tuesday, June 23.
- Thereafter there is the second meeting of the council on June 28, then the council could receive a presentation by the other parties outlining the components of the agreement.
- [K]nowing that the council expressed and interest in having a televised public hearing, that could be done in their first meeting in July (July 12) when television is typically availalbe. We’ve looked into options for the council to have the option of having the meeting taped and televised and make that available.
- This item could also be added to any addtional, subsequent council meeting for discussion, consideration and deliberation on the second meeting in July or the first meeting in August.
“This is the outline that we’ve discussed with the other parties that would work, that we’ve discussed. He then asked for questions & comments by the council.”
Penny Coffey asked if all stakeholders be available at all of the meetings? Sterbank did not know if they would be available at all of the meetings.
Bob Sterbank:
“When we discussed the process and the desire to have them available, they have indicated their desire to be at all the meetings, especially for the first joint public meeting on June 23rd, if that is what you choose to do. And they would hope to be there at the presentation to the council on June 28. We have not discussed subsequent dates. I didn’t want to make that commitment without talking to council first and confirm what the dates would be.”
Michael Grayum expressed concern that the AWC conference in Spokane is on June 23 so that date would not work.
Bob Sterbank:
“[T]hat is the date that was intended as a presentation to the public, (not necessarily council).”
Coffey and Grayum said that it would be a good idea to move the first meeting to when city council could attend. Michael Grayum next asked about something he asked at the last meeting which was about our influence over the process.
Michael Grayum:
“Because to me, as we look at this process and look at the bullets (on the memo) under, ‘[D]eliberate the tentative agreement or the decision on the tentative agreement or the final agreement’, one of the, as we look at it and review it, and talk with the public, do we actually any way to to look at it and influence and look at the agreement as it comes to us, or is it pretty much final and agreed upon by the parties and they are not accepting changes. This is something I thought you were going to take to the group and get an answer because there are other boards and bodies that would be dealing with the same issue, and you were going to get some feedback on that. Any update on this?”
Bob Sterbank:
“I don’t have an update on that; at this time I think it will depend on where, if we get to a tentative agreement and where the other parties are with respect to the agreement at that time, in roughly three to four weeks from now. It will also depend on the scope of potential changes that the council would be interested in discussing”
Michael Grayum:
“[T]hat is a pretty big issue to clarify the time of the process but also how it will be managed and what the expectations and how to communicate them to the public, is this just an up or down vote, or are we really going to dig deep into this make some line item changes of expectations and communicating this is really important.”
Bob Sterbank:
“[C]ertainly I can take that back to the group; I would anticipate that might be; feedback could be brought to the other council members and their flexibility to considering other changes.”
Michael Grayum:
“[O]ne of the other questions that I had earlier is the opportunity to doing site visits to at least see, with some of the experts [which experts? hired by Cal Portland, or external?]
and talk about things from their perspective; I don’t know if other council members would be interested in such a thing including staff and community members. I’d appreciate knowing if that is a possibility.”
Bob Sterbank:
“[D]o you have a sense where in the process you would like that to occur?”
Michael Grayum:
“I think it would dovetail nicely with the briefing of the parties to the members of the public and to the council, so incorporating that in would be appreciated, at the time of that briefing, obviously so there could be an understanding of what we’re talking about, to have it preced a site visit is a good thing.”
Bob Sterbank:
“[W]e can certainly make that request to the parties. Keep in mind that there has been some of that as part of the conversations that have already occurred.”
Roger Westman:
“[N]ot all city council members are going to Spokane to the AWC and it is important for the members of the public to be informed. I would suggest that we stay with the June 23 meeting as announced, knowing that the question and answer session will happen and that the council will have it’s own briefing on the 28th. And, hopefully there will be a question and answer period provided then; July 12 a public meeting for the city council with (hopefully) question and answer period for the public as well. The dates are recommended, as far as I’m concerned, we should stay with it and proceed with the process. I agree with council member Grayum; at the end of the day, does any of this really matter? Is this process going to have an influence on the final agreement? This is a very important question to have answered. Otherwise we’re just spinning our wheels.”
Kathleen Trotter:
“I feel very strongly that we should not have the initial meeting when some of the council members will not be present. Over half the council will be gone and not able to hear the presentation and public comments. If we could delay that until the next week that will be great. We need to hear what questions the public has and what the answers are. part of the reason for a public process is to hear what the citizens have to say. We need to find dates when everyone on council will be available.”
Wilcox concurs with the rest of the comments that this is a very important issue and that all of the council needs to be present. Coffey asked for a thumbs up to delay the initial meeting until everyone from the council could attend.
Michael Grayum:
“[B]efore we do a thumbs up or a thumbs down or any other finger that it is important for us to look at when the agreement will be reached and a series of options are put out that not only work with
our calendars but it is essential that all the parites involved are available too and work back from when the settlement agreement is put and and we and the public have enough time to read it and that the schedule is consistent with the other parties and the council. As that information becomes forward and we have a couple of options then we can move forward to consider what has been put forth.”
Bob Sterbank:
“[W]e can certainly look into seeing that all the other parties are available with public announcement with sufficient time that the public can arrange time to attend; we will coordinate such with them.”
Penny Coffey:
“Thank you. That should give you enough lead time to get the parties involved and arranged and the announcements sent out. Any other questions?”
Bob Sterbank:
“[T]here will be a public meeting, then a public hearing and council meetings after that.
End email.