Tuesday, May 14, 2013
What is the status of the Northwest Pallet et. al. court case?
UPDATE: 7:00 PM May 14, 2013. Ms. Courier provided her March 12, 2013 motion requesting that the defendants be held in contempt. This appears to be the issue of the June 6, 2013 hearing.
Below are the five page of the March 2013 motion. Click on the photocopy to enlarge:
This case is scheduled for a hearing on June 6, 2013.
Bill on May 1, 2013 asked that the court case be discussed at this Wednesday’s Boone County Board meeting, however it is not on the agenda. I asked again on Monday May 13 and based upon Mr. Terrinoni’s advise I sent an email to the States Attorney.
I thank Ms. Courier for promptly supplying the five page motion shown above as well as the documents regarding earlier actions. Anyone wishing these other documents please email me at: bill.pysson@gmail.com
What is the status of the Northwest Pallet et. al. court case?
UPDATE: 7:00 PM May 14, 2013. Ms. Courier provided her March 12, 2013 motion requesting that the defendants be held in contempt. This appears to be the issue of the June 6, 2013 hearing. I have not received confirmation that new wood mulch is going to the site and have struck out that information from below.
The March motion will be posted shortly.
Here is all which court records currently tells of this case. It is scheduled for another hearing on June 6, 2013.
Bill on May 1, 2013 asked that the court case be discussed at this Wednesday’s Boone County Board meeting, however it is not on the agenda. I asked again on Monday May 13 and based upon Mr. Terrinoni’s advise I sent this email to the States Attorney. As soon as I hear something I will notify the public.
Status of the Woodstock Road mulch pile
From
On the advise of the County Administrator, Ken Terrinoni, I am contacting you directly concerning the status of your efforts to resolve the zoning violation involving Northwest Pallet et.al. and the use of Woodstock Road site for wood chip/mulch storage.
I have a number of constituents who wish an update on your court actions. One of them has contacted your office and relayed his observation that new wood mulch is being dump on the site and then is being reloaded for shipment from the site. What is going on? I thought court action was being pursued to require that Northwest Pallet's operation on Woodstock Road cease.
Please provide a summary regarding the status of this case. Please include the following in your reply.
1. Is case number #2012CH319 the only court action which your office is involved regarding Northwest Pallet and the mulch storage/fire issue?
2. In case #2012CH319, there was a motion on 3-12-2013, could you supply a summary (or a photocopy of that motion)?
3. Case 2012CH319 is scheduled for a hearing on June 6, 2013, can you supply a summary of the county's position/requests to the court in that hearing?
4. In your opinion is the dumping of new wood chips/mulch in keeping with the current restraining order? Please supply a copy of the current restraining order.
I would preferred that your response be by email however feel free to call me at 815 544 5115 . Either electronic or inter-office delivery of documents would be acceptable.
As always, thank you for your help.
BILL PYSSON
District One
Boone County Board
Reposting: Will These Disappear in our Lifetime?
Will These Disappear in our Lifetime?
This is very sobering and most if not all will happen in our life time. Enjoy and make the best of the moment - TODAY~
Believe it or not, the following 9 things will disappear in our lifetime. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.
1. The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They
certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes
6. Music
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
9. Privacy
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.
All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories."
And then probably Alzheimer's will take that away from you to!