Travis County Commissioners Court

July 31, 2012 - Citizens Communication
Agenda

Citizens Communication is next and several citizens have signed in to speak.
Gus pena will be speaker number one and he will be followed by mr. Reeferseed again.
And he will be followed by melanie mcaffee and I am missing sign-in slip number 4.
Robin snyder is number 5.
And you are hear on water quality?

>> I'm here on item 16.

>> Good morning, gus pena, proud east Austinite, proud marine corps veteran, served in vietnam.
Judge, I have a lot of things to say.
This is the referral list of organizations that have applied for funding from the Texas veterans commission.
As you very well know, there is a two dollar veteran scratchoff and this funding goes to help veterans, allegedly to help out veterans.
Out of all these about 100 agencies in the state of Texas, only two here in the city of Austin and Travis County to help homeless veterans, veterans in need.
Only two.
I'm get you a copy of this, judge.
It makes me kind of wonder what our government is doing to our veterans, our homeless veterans.
If it weren't -- you know, I can personally tell you of homelessness.
If it weren't for friends that help us out, my family, other people's family, we wouldn't survive.
There -- a the lot of us are ill, a lot of us are hurting, a lot of veterans are hurting still from combat injuries from vietnam and I hope people never forget about vietnam veterans.
Tend to forget about those and I wish in my time we're going to struggle to see if we get input in the history books in aisd.
This is the referral sheet partly from 211.
It doesn't help too much, from churches, a lot of people need quality of life funding.
I do want to thank criminal defense attorney joe jim saw we are, special force vietnam veteran, francis montenegro and richard troxell, house the homeless, thank you, richard.
I just want to say this, our country is not doing enough for our veterans, even our current veterans or veterans from past wars.
I'll leave it at that.
But judge and commission, I want you to know that school starts on the 27th of August.
Please, there are school supply drives, drought clothing drives for needy kids, please help them out.
We still need mentors and tutors.
We need to get them educated.
Job training, workforce educated so they can enter jobs that come into Austin.
We need more jobs created in continue.
A lot of people are hurting, a lot of people are unemployed.
A short supply of housing.
There's an article in the paper about students coming back from vacation, summer vacation, u.t.
Students, they don't have housing.
There is no supply of housing for even the people, our citizens and residents.
So we need job creation, we need affordable housing, we need at lot of things.
They need food, kids are hungry.
I tell you what, we're double dipping recession.
I'm not an economist, but if you are out in the field, you see what I see, it's a double dip.

>> [buzzer sounding] thank you very much.

>> Thank you, mr. Pena.
Mr. Reeferseed.
The.

>> Thank you, sir.
Hot diggety howdy.
I'm ronnie reeferseed, yodeling, that truly conservative Texas voters have demonstrated our wisdom to find the pundits -- and once again we do -- the question is do we like being cooked live with those deadly leaking radioactive blast furnaces like scanner machines or do we like perverts scarring our women and children for life?
No, we don't.
Unanimously our Texas state house of representatives shouted heck no, then the Texas state senate was almost unanimous until our own lieutenant governor proved he had a screw loose.
Single-handedly he hijacked us with the hog wash that no more planes would ever again come to Texas because our citizens stood up and said heck no to t.s.a.
Utter nonsense.
It is absolutely impossible for anyone or any agency to just stop commerce with the entire nation state of Texas just to collectively punish, collective punishment, that's a war crime.
The entire citizens of Texas for common sense basic self-preservation.
But no, david dewhurst won that battle.
Nationwide men, women and children are being presumed guilty in violation of the fourth amendment and thus forced to be molested by filthy perverts and/or be cooked alive with the naked body scanners which is often less lustfully and watched by filthy perverts.
Thanks, mr. Dewhurst, you snuck that through without a peep from our lame scheme prestitutes about any of this.
But no, ted cruz, who has been earning his credentials, my number one hero and mentor dr. Ron paul likes ted cruz.
So all the endless hog wash from dewhurst is back firing full time.
At the time cruz is whopping dewhurst with a 10 point advantage.
Of course, with the cash cow so-called voting machines scammed down our throats continuallyly by miss dana debouvier, we have to pray and hope for real change in the totally independent nation state to decide to become part of these united states.
Wes riddle is going to prove that heart felt grass roots political sports still need something in Texas.
Hoping and praying to win --

>> [buzzer sounding] -- despite easily hackable, reprogramable useless so-called voting machines.
Wake up, people, we can earn our victories over evil.
To learn more, turn off your t.v.
And go on line, lou --

>> Thank you, mr. Reeferseed.

>> Rp --

>> Thank you again.
Melody mcaffee.
By the way, have you been on the lieutenant governor's christmas card list, mr. Reeferseed?

>> [laughter]

>> We're tight.

>> Miss mcaffee.
How are you doing.

>> Good morning.
I'll be short and brief and hopefully to the point.
I sent all the Commissioners this email this morning so it's just in your box.
I trust the Commissioners court will protect northeast residents and barr mansion in continued opposition of the expansion and operation of waste management.
After decades of opposing the landfill problems still never end.
The county has spent millions of dollars trying to correct problems next door at their closed landfill because waste management has so contaminated the boundary and now as the audacity to assign some of this mess to Travis County.
The county is preparing to spend additional millions on a road, arterial a, that will feature prime views of a landfill ready to exponentially expand.
Waste management is the gorilla in the room.
If Travis County would like folks to move to northeast Austin allowing a central Texas landfill with essentially no buffers and seven stories high and a history of problems as the prime feature on a very expensive road, it's not the best way to achieve your objective.
Let's work together and continue the battle to the third court of appeals.
Thank you.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you very much.
Applause robin snyder.

>> Good morning, judge and Commissioners.

>> Good morning.

>> Robin snyder with Texas campaign for the environment.
I'm here to echo what melanie mcaffee had to say that a number of years ago we were here on a regular basis as the landfills in northeast Travis County were applying for expansions, and this court voted unanimously to oppose the expansion of the waste management landfill.
It's gone through first legal of appeal and we want to make sure that the county does not drop the ball and that you continue to fight this in court.
Especially because you have so much skin in the game.
As melanie mcaffee mentioned, the maps that waste management submitted to our state environmental agency assigned part of the waste management's landfill which has a toxic waste dump inside to Travis County.
And we need to make sure that they do not put their responsibility on to the taxpayers of this county.
That landfill should have been cleaned up long ago.
It is still a major environmental problem in our county and we need to make sure that the county stands up for its rights and for its taxpayers.
Thank you.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you.
And we do have waste management on the executive session agenda today, a 2.
Okay.
Those persons who signed in to speak under citizens communication.

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