The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - October 22, 2014
Letter to the editor:
Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
Re: Response to Glenda Kirkland's letter (Oct. 15, 2014)
Mayor Glenda Kirkland has contacted the Governor's office pursuant to State Stat-
ute 114.01(1)(f) unknown to me addressing absence for 60 days without explanation and
Letter to the editor:
asked for my removal from my elected commission seat. I was gone 64 days due to health
Re: Trash, You'd Think it Was My Favorite Subject!
issues which is common knowledge. Before I left I told Clerks McCranie and MacDonald
First, I will update you on the current situation: Last we knew, the ACTUAL
to scan and email me daily all commissioner paper. Over 50 emails were sent and returned,
Waste-Pro contract expired as of midnight on September 30, 2014. According to our Char-
including numerous phone calls both ways. Kirkland told the Governor "my absence was
ter, the one who signs contracts is the MAYOR, but ONLY those contracts APPROVED by
making it difficult for the commission to conduct business." Amazing, earlier in the year she
THE COMMISSION.
turned on Commissioner White and myself telling me she did not need my vote anymore
The only Vote ever taken and approved by this COMMISSION concerning gar-
and my agenda items would probably not get a vote by those commissioners. These com-
bage was on April 14, 2014, a UNANIMOUS vote to request bids, which would have meant
missioners actually apologized in a meeting on tape to Kirkland they were sorry they didn't
the preparation of an RFP. (So that was 6 months ago). Why didn't the Attorney prepare the
vote like they promised her they would on an issue when she had come to them. This is
RFP at that time? Somebody either dropped the ball in Town Hall, or SOMEONE simply
called a conduit and illegal.
wants to renew Waste-Pro.
At the same time Mayor Kirkland also told me she was going to get rid of zoning
On September 30, 2014, to fill the gap between the expiration of the Waste-Pro
officer Charley Botts and Commissioners White and Smalldridge. Her three voting allies
contract and the time The COMMISSION would be voting on the issue, COMMISSIONER
fired Botts, who has sued the town. Kirkland asked the Governor to suspend White's com-
Ely signed a copy of an addendum EXTENDING the contract. The vote was taken on Oc-
mission seat for two felony charges which isn't true as the charges for commercial littering
tober 7, 2014 and passed to extend it.
were one felony and one misdemeanor in his junk yard dating back to pre-1950. The trial
There was actually NO contract to extend---and Sherry Ely NOR the Mayor had
will prove his innocence. Commissioner Ely was appointed to replace White until the trial.
the authority to sign the addendum on September 30, 2014, to fill in the gap until the vote
Now after White and I called for the termination of Inglis Attorney Bettin, a longtme family
was taken.
friend of the mayor from the east coast, Mayor Kirkland has asked the Governor to remove
How did Commissioner Ely know ahead of time that The Commission was going
me for this unknown rule when I was in daily contact while I was gone. She stated my only
to vote in the affirmative to extend the contract? The only way she could have known is
contact was send my check which is false. She has spent many hours trying to turn citizens
if SOMEONE had filled her in on how the vote was going to go down, and there is a lot
against me but meeting tapes prove what's up.
wrong with that! Not only that, The MAYOR is the ONLY one who can sign contracts AP-
If she succeeds in getting rid of me her three voting allies can replace me with
PROVED BY THE COMMISSION. The President can do so in the absence of the Mayor,
another ally and according to our charter four commission votes can terminate the 5th com-
But in this case, THERE WAS NO APPROVED CONTRACT TO EXTEND, as
missioner which would be Commissioner Smalldridge. That would mean two commission-
that contract had expired on September 30---and since the approval vote was not taken until
ers were elected by the people and 3 were appointed by her commission and then she would
October 7, it looks illegal. Commissioner Ely stepped out on a limb, OBLIGATING the
have full support. Good luck mobile home owners, you'll be history
TOWN to the extension of the contract, which meant lots of money, EXPECTING the Com-
Sally Price, Inglis Commissioner
mission to vote a Majority of "yes" votes on October 7. What if the vote had come down
"Searching for the Truth"
as a majority of "No" votes? Ms. Ely put us all out on a limb by obligating us citizens to a
contract we didn't want instead of saving us 49.5% by having gone with FDS. She also had
NO Legal Authority to obligate us like this. 34446
5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida
The Wonders of a Spider's Web
-GOD BLESS--RHONDA KLINE, Inglis
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mail, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.com
ail, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com
Spiders are capable of producing one of
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the finest filament strands known to man. These
You already know Inglis Politics is a dirty business. This week is no different
threads can be 10,000 times thinner than a strand
- now there's a "conspiracy" to take your mobile homes away , "but you can stop it by
of human hair, yet the silk is five times stronger
signing this petition." At least, that's what they're saying. What they don't tell you is this
than an equivalent weight of steel cable. Scientists
- - - they're trying to "stop" something that ISN'T HAPPENING. But that's OK - they don't
have yet to learn to synthesize an equally strong
mind scaring you to death if it helps them gain political power. It's
despicable.
artificial silk, nor do they know how a spider keeps
Let's look at the other side of the equation for a moment - What's their vision for Inglis?
from clogging its spinnerets as the emerging silk
They don't have one. They're not interested in new business moving into Town, or in add-
immediately solidifies upon exposure to oxygen. How could some "pre-spider" have
ing jobs forourresidents, orin making place to live. They want
the Town a more attractive
just happened upon the correct formula for producing silk and, at the exact same time,
their·-happens after they're gone,
way while they're here what · to you (or your children)
evolved both the equipment for dispensing it and the instincts for how to use it?
they don't care.
manypeopleare movingInglis" not one
to is of our problems. We have empty
We have also made some incredible discoveries from spider silk. Scientists
"Too
homesbecause of Our leave town&don'tcome back. Our property
foreclosures. kids
recently coated silk with a type of glass SiO(C2H5)4 and then burnt away the inner
silk in a 788oF oven. The resulting glass shrinks fivefold leaving a hollow glass tube
values are dropping, year after year. There's talk about the school closing. These are our
with an interior diameter 50,000 times smaller than a human hair. These tubes can be
challenges; either we face them or we doom our Town to decay until, eventually, it will fall
used as light pipes for light-speed optical circuits or as nano-sized test tubes for single
apart.
molecules of specific chemicals.
The majority of our Commission believe that Inglis can become a better place to live.
O to build an
R Y That'sIwhyG M A D EwithT OCountyR D E R ambulance station in Inglis. That's
T H N we're working
In another discovery, an Israeli company has produced a large spider web
the
shaped net of fine fibers in the shape of an inverted tent. At night, dew droplets form
why Steve Warren was hired as our Code Enforcement Officer. That's why the old IPD
on the fibers in the same way they collect on a spider s web in the morning. The drop-
buildingrenovateditsuitable for animal control . That's why money is being
was to make
lets roll downwards into a collection container; a 20 foot diameter web can collect up
set aside to replace our old, obsolete fire trucks and gear. That's why we've put financial
to 12 gallons of water per night from desert air.
checks & balances in place in Town Hall. That's why we contracted with the Sheriff for law
What marvelous wonders we can learn from God s creation.
enforcement services.
The Newscaster
The Newscaster
Thesomeonetellsyousaid," please do me a favor - call or come
next time "What I
But ask now the rving Inglis, they shall teach thee; and the fowls of Homosassa
beasts, and Yankeetown, Dunnellon, Crystal River, the air,
byandmewhetherIsaid it.You "may" be surprised to learn that my political oppo-
ask
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and they shall tell thee...Who knoweth not in all 489-4588 the hand of the LORD hath
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nents tend to "misquote" me.
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wrought this? Job 12:7, 9
Glenda Kirkland, Mayor
Based on, Inspired Evidence a book byfor 8-27-14 thru Sept 24,14
Proof Bruce Malone, 2011
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