Report: Meeting with Grundy Co. "Mayor"/Judge Executive Ladue Bouldin
Friday, March 12, 2004
Barbara Daugherty-Dwyer representative from Tennessee St. Alliance for Citizens Rights (Tn-ACR) meet with Grungy County Mayor, here forth referred to, by his nick name "Boo".
Barbara’s focus was to gain an understanding of the function of Hands Across The Mountain, the name given to a Board that was established to secure Federal Grant moneys for Grungy County, as well as network the various leadership aspects of the county for present and future county needs. I understood, the board is comprised of mainly Grungy County Residents from the business, recreation, county administration, and environmental development agency out of Chattanooga. I understood "Boo" to explain that, Hands Across The Mountain seeks to meet the goal for local efficient regulation of County needs and the goal is too keep decision making on a local level as much as possible. "Boo" touched on the regional development phases based out of Chattanooga, which included Grundy County in its regional zone. "Boo" has been representing Grungy Co. interests in the regional planning development arena, and I assume "Boo" will be attending more meetings, having phone consultations and sifting through the "red tape" paper work of regional development.
"Boo" and I discussed the need for careful examination of the sought after Federal "Grants" since a grant can have the power to require obligations on the "grantee" (receiver), that may not be in the best interest of the citizenry of Grungy Co.
I understood "Boo" to concluded that Grungy County, and respective cities within Grungy Co. are able to meet their own genuine scientific environmental conservation needs (such as Tracy City, who is in the process of investigating, evaluating and applying reasonable measure to meet the local need for environmental protection), without the over regulatory direct or indirect interruptions from special interest environmental groups.
Special interest environmental groups can have an influence on State Parks and Public officials, because they have powerful financial backers, "big wig" attorneys, and biased ecologists who are experts in the art of intimidation and miss representation of environmental issues, who can tend to over inflate environmental issues, to further the agenda of Green Party politics with which they are either supporting or being miss lead by.
Barbara raised the concern, that the residents and public officials in Grungy and the South Cumberland Mountain region be provided with independent studies of alleged environmental pollution, and that Public officials and residents not rely on the studies of establishments who admit they are working with Natures Conservancy:
(The Nature Conservancy, in a Nature Conservancy Pamphlet on Conservation Easements, identifies land ownership as a combination of privileges that allows landowners to exercise certain rights. Being allowed to cut timber, explore for minerals, dig a ditch, and build a house are all examples of a landowner’s rights. A conservation easement restricts some or all of these rights in order to protect the habitat, flora, or fauna found on the land.
Further information provided in the Nature Conservancy Pamphlet is that the rights the owner relinquishes are transferred to an organization or body, such as a qualified conservation organization or government body, by a legal document called a conservation easement. When the document is properly drawn, signed, and recorded in the land records, the owner and future owners of the property can no longer exercise the rights relinquished in the conservation easement.
http://www.restoringamerica.org/archive/property/conservation_easements.html )."Boo" is aware of the need for the property rights of Grungy Co. residents, farmers and business owners to be honored and secure (Art. 5 Bill of Rights), against unreasonable seizure.
To help secure these rights, Tn-ACR will be assisting "Boo" and other public leadership with the educational resources to aid in accomplishing this important goal, and is therefore taking a special interest in Hands Across The Mountain; and the Regional Development phases (involving conservation, transportation, education and cultural-history).
The ACR’s interest is to provide Grungy Co. Public officials, and the general citizenry who have placed them in office, with educational resources and supports that will assist them in making fully informed decisions for the County that will protect the rights of our property owners, as well as help meet the real (not ECO imagined) environmental needs within the South Cumberland region. Furthermore, Tn-ACR will be providing Grungy Co. Public officials with reports on ECO Green Party activities with in the South Cumberland Region.
Remember:
"True Danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
-Edmund Burke
Barbara Daugherty-Dwyer
March 12, 2004
Tn-ACR