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	<description>Chapel Hill and the World One Post at a Time</description>
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		<title>Sustainability Task Force: The Whole or The Sum of the Parts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE:] That&#8217;s Amy Ryan, SCVTF member, not Amy Strange, NC Board of Elections. Sorry Amy!
As some readers might recall, I was appointed to serve on Chapel Hill&#8217;s Sustainable Community Visioning Task Force early last year.
Before we got started there were a few issues to address involving recruitment of a diverse membership to reflect both the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/03/09/sustainability-task-force-the-whole-or-the-sum-of-the-parts/</link>
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		<title>Chapel Hill&#8217;s First Budget Meeting of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to quickly respond to Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt&#8217;s comments this evening.
First, spending $8-12M on the Lot #5 project, building luxury condos and enriching a private developer, is not the same as “protecting our Town&#8217;s infrastructure”.  
The Lot #5 (West 140) project is discretionary &#8211; the push to keep it going is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/02/03/chapel-hills-first-budget-meeting-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>WCHL Commentary: Library Expansion Next Year or Lot #5 Project, Not Both</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron Stutts and WCHL 1360 invited me to do a commentary on a Chapel Hill issue.  
I chose to speak out on the fiscally imprudent idea that we can &#8220;have our cake and eat it too&#8221;.  
Run this and the following four year&#8217;s budget numbers, look at anticipated impacts &#8211; funding Town retirees&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/02/01/wchl-commentary-library-expansion-next-year-or-lot-5-project-not-both/</link>
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		<title>Chapel Hill 01/31/2010 Winter Conditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick update from the Town:

WINTER STORM 5 p.m. Jan. 31 Notice
Posted Date: 1/31/2010 
Following the weekend snowstorm, normal operations for Town of Chapel Hill services are anticipated tomorrow (Monday, Feb. 1) with the exception of Monday trash collection, which has been rescheduled to Wednesday.

Public works crews will remain busy with snow plowing and de-icing work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/31/chapel-hill-01312010-winter-conditions/</link>
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		<title>Chapel Hill 2010: Snow, Snow, Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Chapel Hill has a new tool to track road conditions during adverse conditions, like today&#8217;s 3 to 6 inches snowfall.  
The GIS map showing roads salted, cleared and relevant services  is here.
Good to see this finally in place.  The Tech Board discussed just such an application of the GIS system about 6 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/30/snow-jan-30-2010/</link>
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		<title>Library or Bust? Laurin Easthom&#8217;s Concerns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Council decided to postpone the Library expansion decision pending further data and discussion.
Council member Laurin Easthom pointed out on Monday, once again,  “We need to make some real serious decisions about citizens who use our library and don’t pay.”   Laurin has been on-top of this issue for some time. She has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/26/library-or-bust-laurin-easthoms-concerns/</link>
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		<title>Library or Lot #5?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what I meant to say at this evening&#8217;s Council meeting.  
Like a lot of my remarks, I find myself editing on the fly, so what I managed to get out in less than 3 minutes wasn&#8217;t quite what follows but I believe I made the points I needed.
The simple summary?  
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/25/library-or-lot-5/</link>
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		<title>Magic 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Lazorko, Chapel Hill&#8217;s information officer, sent me this email to Council from Town elder Roscoe Reeve.  Roscoe recalls how the 25 bed limit for shelters was set.  As suspected, it was somewhat arbitrary though based in an intent to make the approval process less onerous for community-oriented facilities. 
Thanks Catherine!

From: Roscoe Reeve
Sent: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/12/magic-25/</link>
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		<title>Who You Gonna Call? Deerbusters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Education and our own private &#8220;rabbit-proof&#8221; fencing seems to be the extent of Chapel Hill&#8217;s plan to deal with its exploding dear population.
The Town is responding to my Mount Bolus neighbor&#8217;s Oct. 12th petition this evening with a proposal [PDF] to educate folks on how to deter expansion of the deer population.  
Unfortunately, rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2010/01/11/deer-oh-deer/</link>
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		<title>Chapel Hill&#8217;s 2009 Services Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapel Hill&#8217;s government is finally doing the survey that the Town&#8217;s (now defunct) Technology Board recommended more than 5 years ago.
As you might expect, I have a few questions about the survey, including the cost, why it was done by an out-of-state company, how it was constructed, who it was targeted at initially (online version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/12/29/chapel-hills-2009-services-survey/</link>
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		<title>Applicants 2009 Chapel Hill Council Vacancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s each of the interested applicants for the current Council vacancy. 
That vacancy will be discussed and probably filled at tonight&#8217;s special Council meeting.
Over the last 8 years I&#8217;ve served this community mainly as a citizen activist and volunteer.  Over the last 4 years I ran 3 times for Council in order to serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/12/14/2009-chapel-hill-council-vacancy-applicants/</link>
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		<title>Trash Talk: Mal de M.E.R. No Longer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from this evening&#8217;s Orange County Board of Commissioners&#8217; meeting.  
Tonight&#8217;s big agenda item, &#8220;What to do about the waste transfer station?&#8221;
New County Manager Frank Clifton&#8217;s extensively reviewed the three proposed options: use the County&#8217;s Payfadar property (originally slated for a park) on Millhouse Road, pursue the ill-suited (and ever more expensive) Howell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/12/07/trash-talk-mal-de-m-e-r-no-longer/</link>
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		<title>Unfunded Liabilities: Pay As You Go Not Sustainable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on last night&#8217;s post Unfunded Liabilities,  the presentation finance head Ken Pennoyer made is here [MS Powerpoint].

This graph isn&#8217;t only a call-to-arms for Chapel Hill but is reflective of why health care reform is critically needed NOW.
If the Town decides to change its plan in response to the OPEB criteria, the escalating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/10/29/unfunded-liabilities-pay-as-you-go-not-sustainable/</link>
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		<title>Unfunded Liabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[X-POSTED from my campaign website]
Tonight was the final Council meeting before the election.  
I&#8217;ve attended every Council meeting this Fall except the special Friday morning one. I go to quite a few Council meetings in general, so attending this Fall&#8217;s during my run for office was not much of a stretch.   Penny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/10/28/unfunded-liabilities/</link>
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		<title>NRG Chapel Hill&#8217;s Mayor Candidate Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Madeline Jefferson, Bob Henshaw, Julie McClintock, Janet Smith, Alan Snavely, Mickey Jo Sorrel and the rest of the membership of Neighborhoods For Responsible Growth (NRG) for both sponsoring the recent Chapel Hill Mayor candidate forum and making the following video available to the wider community.
While Julie did a great job of moving the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwill.org/2009/10/28/nrg-chapel-hill-mayor-candidate-forum/</link>
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