Agenda for April 7th meeting of Camden County Board of Commissioners.

http://www.co.camden.ga.us/archive.asp?AMID=&Type=&ADID=567 Let me get this straight: crawfish live in the Satilla River; we consume crawfish cooked in water with seasonings at the Crawfish Festival; however, Woodbine needs a permit to build an underground storage tank to hold the water they boil the crawfish in? Is it radioactive, or what? Note agenda item # 10. Last on the agenda. What were the chances. REPORT: I just returned from the meeting. In the most bizarre motion, the CCBOC approved Woodbine's installation of a storage tank at their waterfront park to store deadly crawfish boil water underground in a securely locked tank until in can be pumped out by a licensed septic tank pumper and transported for disposal in the municipal waste water treatment system. I'll bet you are thinking the DNR and or the EPA run amok, right. No, it turns out that the culprit is the County Health Department - specifically the restaurant inspection guys. After the meeting, Jim Proctor and the chairman of the Board of Assessors and I were sharing a good laugh (initiated by me) over the situation. Proctor says he is a member of the Woodbine Lions, who put on the Crawfish Festival. he says they always dumped it into a drainage ditch from which it ran out unto the marsh and eventually into the Satilla River. Who knew that old crawfish boil water could be so dangerous to one's health? Yes, that would be the same water that is in the cooked head when you suck it. No one seemed to know what the safe ppm was for crawfish water in the estuarine environment. During the first public comment session, Mr. Copeland set a new personal record. He droned on for 26 minutes about the history of the names of both the Ella Park Church Road and the Horse "Stomp" Church Road. His theory is that those damned Yankees who built I-95 misspelled stomp as stamp. My alternate theory is that generations ago, Camdenians in that area were not sufficiently literate to know that people stomp and horses stamp. At any rate, St. David promised that the county would look into having it renamed "Horse Stomp Road." In fact, he was ready to vote to do it tonight until Keene pointed out how many addresses, personal checks, etc., would have to be changed. At any rate, the main purpose for Mr. Copeland's sonorous, dragging presentation was to convince the board that it would be a show of disrespect to the GOB's to give a new section of road (well, actually, the old, unpaved section of Ella Park Church Road - they shifted the route and paved the new route of the road) one of those fancy, phony names that those carpetbagging developers liked to use. The only proper way of naming a road was to name it for the place it takes you to, i.e., Ella Park Church. Mr. Copeland wanted to keep Ella Park Road for the paved section and re-name the dirt section (i.e., old Ella Park Church Road) Hardeefield Road because it leads to a little "settlement" on some property given to some American Revolutionary War officer named Hardee in a land grant from the State of Georgia. The commission voted unanimously to give him what he wanted. In the second public comments, Copeland's thanks were mercifully short. All you WatchDog / Tea Party folks are gonna love this. It turns out hat he county attorney, having discovered that state law says you have to pay your Board of Tax Assessor people at least $20.00 per month, he needed approval to amend the resolution from two weeks ago to not pay them. None of the WatchDog / Tea party folks were there. Bad mistake. St. David was hell bent to get back at Berry for last week. St. David claims he just voted to ask for their resignation because it was an accurate expression of public sentiment, but that he personally did not want hem to resign, insofar as they had done nothing wrong. Keene opined that it seemed that Berry was just antagonizing the very people we were entirely dependent upon to get this mess straightened out. He also pointed out that his reading of the law did not say $20.00 per meeting, rather $20.00 for every day that they were performing their duties. He argued that we might end up paying an average of $20.00 X 21 working days per month X 5 members for a total of $2,020 per month rather than $1,000. He may well be right. Sears thought they had acted hastily and wanted to have a friendly meeting with the BOA and hear their side of the story and make smores and sing cumbahya before doing anything rash. Berry stuck to his guns and said he could not believe that they had all wimped out in just two weeks. The vote to have a chat with the BOA was 4 to Berry's 1 this time around. Yes, had I been on the BOC tonight, I would have voted with Berry - and no, that does not make me Berry's puppet. Ruben Gomez was in attendance tonight. Refresh my memory: didn't he run for District 2 - Zell's district, when she was elected?