Executive Summary
posted by Alderman Dana McLendon at 12:20 PM
Thursday, December 01, 2005
About Me
- Name: Alderman Dana McLendon
- Location: Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Previous Posts
- Counter Offer?
- I hate to say I told you so,
- Williamson Herald
- CCOF / EF Update
- Update: Franklin Water System
- Now What Do I Do?
- Harlinsdale Farm Concept Plan Meeting
- Gratitude and Attitude
- TUESDAY OCTOBER 25TH IS ELECTION DAY
- Sunshine, At Long Last.
4 Comments:
It should be titled:
"Memorandum of How to do an End Run Around the BOMA."
Doug Berry: "My opinion is that the changes to the Contract of Sale are not so material as to require a re-submission to the Board for Action."
Oh Really? I could argue otherwise given a condition so controversial that it resulted in a counteroffer and prompted its removal, placing the burden on the taxpayers. That's material.
And by the way - I sure as hell don't remember Berry's name being on the ballot when I voted.
Who provided the estimate of $5,000 to remove the beaver and what method of removal is this estimate based upon?
I certainly hope you will let Mr. Berry know that you have "strong concerns" about his opinion and wish the matter reviewed by BOMA.
I would like to see BOMA forced to show the voters they do not consider the $4,500 increase in city expense to be a material change.
Alderman McLendon, I appreciate the label "Beaver Barrister"! Animals do indeed need legal representation in this day. You should read "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston (1928). He writes:
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept
of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by
complicate artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature
through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather
magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them
for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken
form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly
err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world
older and more complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we
have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never
hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are
other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
So, am I to understand that Mr. Johnson, city Administrator, is also an expert on the cost and methodology of removing marine mammals from Federally protected wetlands? Or did he consult such an expert?
There must be some basis for the cost estimate cited in the memo.
It is unclear if Mr. Johnson provided the estimate or was provided with the estimate. So, my question is: who is the actual source of the city's official estimate of beaver removal costs?
What is their expertise in this field?
Since no authority was cited in the lawyerly memo, it appears as if Mr. Johnson simply used the rectal extraction method.
Note that Mr. Berry goes out of his way to put it on the record that Mr. Johnson provided the cost estimate, not he.
No one really belives this estimate, do they?
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