{"id":9368,"date":"2014-07-16T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2014-07-16T01:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:50:03","slug":"breakdown-danville-city-council-7152014-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/16\/breakdown-danville-city-council-7152014-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Danville City Council (7\/15\/2014 Meeting)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve started analyzing what happened (and other observations about things) at governmental meetings that we do LIVE! coverage on, so let&#8217;s look at what happened at Tuesday night&#8217;s Danville City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start this BreakDown by bringing on a Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor attendance by Danville citizens at the meeting. Again. That&#8217;s sad. The meetings are televised live on River City TV, so that&#8217;s another option&#8230; but there&#8217;s nothing like attending the meeting in person.<\/li>\n<li>Hey hey! Steven Gould becomes the first school board member that I know of who has attended at a City Council meeting and not only that&#8230; he spoke in the public comment session! Let&#8217;s see if any city council members come for Thursday&#8217;s school board meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Danville does a good National Night Out event every year. Cardinal Village really puts on a great part of it and it&#8217;s worth going to it. It will be their 7th year doing it. I&#8217;ll also add that Halifax County puts on a good show every year too. Pittsylvania County? Nothing. They do it at another time in the year which really doesn&#8217;t make it National Night Out.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t a Thumbs! article, but I&#8217;m still giving a Thumbs UP! to Police Chief Philip Broadfoot for being at almost every council meeting and to new Economic Development Director Telly Tucker for going 2 for 2 on meetings so far.<\/li>\n<li>Almost Free Stuff is a pretty good deal, and grant writing is a big part of making that happen. The fire department gets new turnout gear and only has to pay 10% of the price for it. Not many people understand that grant writing turns into big money.<\/li>\n<li>Having to apply for a special use permit and paying the fees associated with it is a sad fact of living in the city. The horse boarding request was for a property way out on Westover Drive with the land used for it next to the Sandy River. But hey, it&#8217;s the city and all of those rules have to be followed. At least nobody objected to the permit&#8230; and why would they? It&#8217;s in the middle of nowhere.<\/li>\n<li>The Coal Ash Spill Is Dead. Deader than disco! None of those doom and gloom crazy environmentalist fear mongering stories ever came close to being true. I&#8217;m also glad that the latest &#8220;arsenic blisters&#8221; attempt was stomped down. People will hopefully learn a lesson from this hysteria attempt.<\/li>\n<li>The council members who were &#8220;going to make sure Duke Energy pays for the damage they&#8217;ve caused&#8221; has nothing left to yell about anymore. The city&#8217;s hired gun attorney will make sure that happens and that&#8217;s that. Gary Miller&#8217;s &#8220;ticking time bomb&#8221; was defused by the speakers last night.<\/li>\n<li>Buddy Rawley, you were WAY too quiet at the meeting. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now to other observations&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Downtown Danville is doing great with the revitalization, but it sure was dead on Tuesday night. Ugh.<\/li>\n<li>Main Street Coffee Emporium has succeeded with their business closing at 3:30 PM, but I&#8217;d love to eat supper there before a city council meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Dell&#8217;anno&#8217;s Pizza Kitchen&#8217;s food is delicious and their happy hour prices are awesome. It&#8217;s just too bad that the clerks haven&#8217;t rang up the food at those prices the last three times I&#8217;ve been there. Sigh.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, somebody&#8217;s been doing something in the old Register &amp; Bee building as I&#8217;ve noticed tables and workbenches that have moved from week to week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a BreakDown and more of Tuesday night&#8217;s action. 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