[EQAB-list] [Fwd: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA]

[Ellen Smith]

Another FYI to EQAB.

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Subject: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:12:40 -0400



Anne
You are correct the issue can wait. The Council can bring it up at a
later date or not at all.

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From: Anne Garcia Garland <agg at bellsouth.net>
To: LCharlesHensley; O'Connor, James
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Sent: Sun Sep 13 17:37:38 2009
Subject: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA

I think getting the information Charlie mentions is an appropriate
request
and suggest that we ask EQAB to send a member to Council meeting to
bring
that information with them (though I suspect they must be planning for
someone to be there.)  As Jim points out, accepting the communication
does
not require that we give the direction requested, either Monday night or
at
all.  But presenting the letter at council meeting is an effective way
to
get a discussion started and solicit community input.  Am I mistaken in
thinking that we are allowed to accept the communication and "take it
under
advisement" putting off discussion by council with regard to what , if
any,
direction to give staff with respect to any resolution?  In fact, might
we
not use the discussion of acceptance to ask staff for answers to
whatever
questions arise from council or the public? This would give the public
two
months to contribute comments rather than waiting till next agenda
publication to solicit them.
Thanks,
Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hensley" <chuck188 at comcast.net>
To: "James O'Connor" <JOConnor at cortn.org>
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<SJenkins at cortn.org>; <agg at bellsouth.net>; "Jacquelyn Bernard"
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Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA


Fellow City Leaders:

On an issue this controversial, I feel that we should have the
opportunity
to see what reasoning and background information is behind the
recommendation for the resolution. In the information presented, I see
no
data on economic impacts or health data to support of refute either side
of
the issue.

If the potential open burning discussion at the meeting has the
potential to
begin a decision making process by our instructing staff to draw up a
resolution, then developers and others who are most impacted, have not
had
adaquate notification and time to prepare their comments.

I have objected as strongly as anyone, in the past, to open burning, but
also feel that the air curtain-incineration process is not adaquately
understood. The recent problems that occurred with it's recent
application,
in Oak Ridge, resulted from some mis-understood process parameters, and
mis-location of the burn pit. I personally object more strongly to wood
burning fireplaces than to the air curtain process on construction
sites.
But I don't have adaquate information yet, either.

In my opinion, it is not appropriate to accept or reject this
communication
without the prescribed ten days of opportunity for public awareness.

Sincerely,
Charlie Hensley



----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Connor" <JOConnor at cortn.org>
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miller" <jane.miller at comcast.net>, millerdj at y12.doe.gov,
dxm at y12.doe.gov,
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chuck188 at comcast.net, tombee1 at BELLSOUTH.NET, "thayes 37830"
<thayes_37830 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Ken Krushenski" <KKrushenski at cortn.org>, "Steve Jenkins"
<SJenkins at cortn.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:21:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
Eastern
Subject: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA

It should be noted we are accepting this as a communication and not
endorsing anything at this point. Of course Council can direct us as
requested to draw up the resolution but that is not required.

----- Original Message -----
From: Anne Garcia Garland <agg at bellsouth.net>
To: Bernard, Jacquelyn; D. Jane Miller <jane.miller at comcast.net>; D.
Jane
Miller <millerdj at y12.doe.gov>; David Mosby <dxm at y12.doe.gov>; David
Mosby;
Smith, Ellen (comcast); Smith, Ellen (ornl); LCharlesHensley; Tom Beehan
<tombee1 at bellsouth.net>; Tom Hayes
Cc: O'Connor, James; Krushenski, Ken; Jenkins, Steve
Sent: Sat Sep 12 09:10:21 2009
Subject: Re: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO 9/14/09 AGENDA

Dear Folks,

    Can we accept the recommendation from EQAB at this council meeting
and
solicit public opinion and information for the entire month before
entertaining a resolution by the council next month?  We wouldn't be
voting
one way or the other on open burning at this meeting and it would be a
good
start to public discussion of the issue.  I believe the basic change to
current ordinance here affects developers.
Thanks.
Anne




The staff recommends the following additions to the September 14, 2009
City
Council agenda:



* Under Communications



Attached is a resolution adopted by the Environmental Quality Advisory
Board
at its meeting on September 3, 2009.  The resolution is requesting that
City
Council direct the staff to prepare for the Council’s consideration an
ordinance that bans opening burning, including burning or incineration
with
an Air Curtain Destructor.  This communication was received too late for
inclusion in the agenda packet.



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