You all remember Sign Officer Eudy, zealous sign “remover” for The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners.  Here is the letter he sent me back in August.

Bullying, Threats, and Intimidation - Creedmoor's usual, "unusual" mode of operation.


I sent two letters (August 21 and September 4) in response to Officer Eudy, and copies were sent to The Mayor and all The ‘Ommissioners. 

No reply.

"The City" threatens and then refuses to repond.


A third letter from Williams Mullen, a Raleigh law firm, was sent on my behalf to Officer Eudy, The Mayor and The ’Ommissioners on October 8, 2013. 

Director Reeder addresses in this clip what he considers to be the Major Issue!

The plant is unnecessary!  SGWASA has the capacity.

And we all know that it is financially insane!  Creedmoor has been overcharging its citizens for 7 years, even the county schools – Mayor Moss himself said that signing a contract with SGWASA would save the Creedmoor schools $140,000 a year!  Let’s get this money back into the hands of the citizens and children of Granville County! 

It is time for The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners to drop this harebrained scheme and stop threatening the entire state with a plant that will not be approved.

It is 7 years past time for The Mayor and The'Ommissioners to sign a contract with SGWASA. 

One More reason.....


        Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

Last night at the regular ‘Ommissioners’ meeting, The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners with straight faces implied that they might after all resolve to at some time in the future further investigate coming to an agreement with SGWASA, but as ‘Ommissioner Minor put it – it will be months and months before everything is finalized.

Last night was a piece of theater; the information Creedmoor presented was the same information that’s been available from SGWASA for weeks! Possibly, a little pre-election engineering?

While continuing to threaten to build the unnecessary, environmentally destructive, financially insane sewage plant on the Tar, Creedmoor passed a hot air resolution to have a resolution that maybe if Butner and Stem have a resolution, and the county reads all the resolutions and resolves not to have a resolution, then maybe, maybe, whereas….

“BUT, we still might build that plant!!!!!” said The ‘Ommissioners.

The Mayor himself did state: “The Granville county School System will save $140,000 a year if Creedmoor signs a contract with SGWASA.”  Now that is the truth because Creedmoor has been overcharging the schools and all Creedmoor citizens for water and sewer for the last seven years.  Ever wonder why our kids have to study in “tin can classrooms” in Creedmoor?  The Mayor himself just told you why. Almost $1,000,000 that Creedmoor has taken from the education of the children in this community! 
Lots of gas and hot air around and that’s why...
         Something Stinks in Creedmoor! 

Mr. Pete Benjamin, Field Supervisor in the Raleigh Office of US Fish and Wildlife, wrote an excellent comment letter on Creedmoor’s proposed sewage plant.  You can read the entire letter here. This excerpt from page 6 is what to think about for today. 

The Tar-Pamlico Basin Association is comprised of cities that discharge sewage effluent into the Tar River. National Spinning, a textile mill in little Washington, the only industrial discharger-member, ceased operation in December 2004. 

“Tar-Pamlico Basin Association (TPBA) Membership
The ES [Environmental Study] and PER [Preliminary Engineering Report] should contain additional information about how Creedmoor became a member of the TPBA, and how the logistics of acquiring "unused" nutrient allocations were figured out. None of the documentation about the transfer of nutrient allocation is provided in Appendix III of the PER. The PER (p.57) indicates these should be available, but they are not included in the document. According to Phase III of the Tar-Pamlico Nutrient Sensitive Waters Implementation Strategy (NCDWQ 2005b, p.7), under Table 1, Section III- Association Members there is an indication that there was a permanent removal of the sole industrial discharge from National Spinning. It is not clear in the Phase III document that this discharge would be made available for future allocation.”
[Emphasis is mine. The ES and PER are here on Creedmoor’s website.]

To discharge sewage effluent into the Tar River, Creedmoor had to become a member of the Tar-Pamlico Basin Association AND had to somehow procure a ration of 1.2 million gallons a day of sewage effluent.  NC Department of Natural Resources was not allowing new discharges into the Tar River.  This should have forced Creedmoor to do the right thing and join SGWASA, to reduce the water and sewer rates for the citizens of Creedmoor.  But nope, not an obstacle for our sneaky boys, The Mayor and The ‘Ommissioners.

For Creedmoor to have any opportunity whatsoever to discharge sewage effluent
into the Tar River at Cannady Mill Bridge, a permanently retired (December 2004) discharge of effluent into the Tar River by National Spinning in Washington, N.C., was mysteriously resurrected and moved 100 miles upstream. 

No discussion.  It just “happened”. 

Something Stinks in the Tar-Pamlico Basin Association and maybe in the North Carolina Environmental Affairs Committee (The Mayor himself was a member when this deal went down.)  And everybody knows…

      Something Stinks in Creedmoor!

Gretchen Morgenson, writing for The New York Times, had a stinging critique of the Rural Development unit of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA RD) and its funding and oversight of small business loans. 
“New Jobs!  If Only It Were True” August 25, 2013

According to an audit done by the Office of the Inspector General of USDA, the Rural Development unit looks to have been fudging its project numbers a bit. According to the report,  “The agency’s success in meeting its established performance goals may be overstated.”

USDA RD seems to be making decisions and then later inventing the facts to support their decision.

That Creedmoor’s proposed sewage plant has gotten as far as it has, and wasted as much money and time as it has is just astounding!  And disheartening! Certainly doesn’t lend much confidence in the vetting ability of USDA RD. 

The Mayor, The ‘Ommissioners, and USDA RD, the blind leading the blind? A partnership - The Three Blind Mice - with multiple opportunities for creative accounting and invention of “facts”?

Hard to see, isn’t it?  That’s one more reason…

      Something Stinks In Creedmoor!

Have some great reading material for everyone today.  Thought you might like a peek at the “secret negotiations” that Creedmoor is orchestrating with SGWASA. .

It’s no “secret”, however, that The Mayor and The ’Ommissioners continue to negotiate in bad faith.  But The ‘Ommissioners are at least consistent: bad idea, bad leadership, bad faith – Bad news for the citizens of Creedmoor.

So, Watch Out!  The 'Ommissioners and The Mayor have not given up their scheme to waste even more taxpayer money.  And what’s really bad, that would be YOUR money.

Happy reading!

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         Something Stinks in Creedmoor!