Tuesday, Asheville City Council will consider putting before the voters of Asheville a binding referendum. The proposal would allow the city to retain the coveted water system if a majority of Ashevillians want it to. There is no call for other partners in this “regional” system to matter. Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell’s request at the last meeting to have everybody in the county vote smacked of rare and splendid fairness, as Bothwell has not been a fan of Representative Tim Moffitt’s attempts to dislodge the asset from the city’s clutches.
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12
2012 At 4:56 pm, timpeck Said:
“Shall the City of Asheville undertake the sale or lease..”
Funny, I thought this was a “seizure.”
“Republican state Rep. Tim Moffitt has filed legislation that would seize Asheville’s water system, turning control over to the Metropolitan Sewerage District.”
http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/08/07/flashback-may-5-2011/
Sale, lease or discontinuance would be action initiated by the City of Asheville. The transfer of the water system to MSD is an action initiated by the General Assembly. The North Carolina General Assembly is not asking.
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Legislative Research Commission’s Committee on Metropolitan Sewerage/Water System
Page 25.
…Given all of the foregoing, this Committee makes the following conclusions:
1. The City of Asheville does not own the entire Public Utility Water System;
2. Buncombe County owns part of the Public Utility Water System;
3. The Public Utility Water System is a “Public Enterprise” and, therefore, the City of Asheville cannot profit from its management;…
http://snipr.com/24mh3w0 [www_ncleg_net]