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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

A Viewer Writes: Salisbury City Council Meeting

After viewing the circus, also called the City Council meeting last week, I am perplexed as to what is next? The council had no boundaries when it came to making a fool out of Bob Culver. Clearly, he is a man who cares about the citizens he was elected to represent, and as an elected official, one would think he would be shown a little bit of respect. The council acted like 2 year olds, and definitely showed their true colors. The city council made it very clear they have no intention to work with the executive to come to a better agreement for the county citizens, as they stated they would only be willing to cooperate with Mr. Culver in 5 years when the fire agreement is set to terminate.

The fire service agreement states that if any of the governing bodies cannot work together or get along it can be pulled at any time. It's clear Bob is trying to make things better for the county citizens of Salisbury, but the city and county councils do not support him whatsoever. The County Chief's association, the governing body when it comes to fire territory since its formation, agreed to give Station 13 territory. This was voted on and accepted at previous meetings, prior to this agreements effective date, which they do not agree with nor support. They have been vocal in their position not to support and agree with the fire service agreement until such changes are made. So why is this agreement still in effect? Several county residents have made it very clear they are unhappy with this agreement and fully support having this station serve their community. They disagree with allowing the City to have any authority in the county, but yet their voices do not seem to matter.

Please please please Bob, don't give up. Don't let the city or the county council bully you into giving in. Do what is best for the citizens that elected you. Remember, the election will be coming up soon, and the actions of these council members have not gone unnoticed. Perhaps we as a community need to come together to make sure these members are replaced at that time, especially John Cannon, the leader of this resistance and buddy of Jake Day.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

YOU BETTER QUIT DRINKING THE COOL-AIDE HE'S SERVING YOU.....

Anonymous said...

RECALL John Cannon.

Anonymous said...

I, too, wrote in with a similar comment as this one, and wholly agree. I watched the whole meeting and was thinking the only thing missing was the straws and spit wads. What a bunch of children imagining they were acting adult-like! They showed no respect for Mr. Culver and made jokes about going behind his back and making Jack Heath deliver the "bad news" of not working together to Mr. Culver. Julia Glantz sat by snickering at all the snide remarks and brought nothing to the table for her eighty grand a year schoolhouse seat. And these are the people deciding how much Station 13 will be called upon for service and how much to pay them? You know it's all going to Hoppes!

If there were ever a 100% good reason to tear up the FS Agreement, it was the broadcast of this meeting.

Anonymous said...

Bob - do something!!! Stop the madness that is the City of Salisbury!

Anonymous said...

Agreed.
Difficult to understand a serve first mentality would hesitate to acknowledge an issue, confront the problem and support a solution.

Anonymous said...

The old man Cannon and his daughter Sharon I do not believe would have been happy with what he has done to the Cannon reputation, he is a slum lord that has not cared for the rights of anyone but himself and his purse.

Anonymous said...

Rip the agreement up

Anonymous said...

Cut the city throw away the agreement

Anonymous said...

Why can't people just get along???
To many Chiefs, not enough Indians!

Anonymous said...

Joe this is a on spot write . It was posted yesterday and was far down. Anyway to get this bumped up

Anonymous said...

Trash the agreement

Anonymous said...

Who in the world would ever agree to give a city official power in a county jurisdiction

Anonymous said...

How is the agreement even legit .

Anonymous said...

The county really screwed there self with the agreement . They will end up paying the city just what they wanted

Anonymous said...

Why is the county paying county employees to dispatch city calls . Sounds like the city should fork half the bill for dispatching.

Anonymous said...

Pull the agreement

Anonymous said...

Pull the agreement

Anonymous said...

Bob man up and cut ties with the city.