<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span data-offset-key="fstfh-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">It appears that, at their meeting yesterday, the state Soil and Water Conservation Commission received Durham SWCD's letter (as an information item) objecting to the state's override of </span><span start="186" end="200" class="diy96o5h" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">#PhoebeGooding</span><span data-offset-key="fstfh-2-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">'s appointment. I only realized this today, or I would have attended and spoken during the public comment period. I am writing now to ask that you please email the members of this commission while the iron is warm and ask that they "honor the Durham SWCD board's nomination and appoint Phoebe Gooding to the Durham SWCD board." If this is all you have time to write/paste, that's fine; but a sentence about your concerns would be great. </span><div class=""><span data-offset-key="fstfh-2-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-offset-key="fstfh-2-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Here are the addresses of the people (state commission board members) you should send your email to: <a href="mailto:ridgeriders4@embarqmail.com" class="">ridgeriders4@embarqmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:bdpotterfarms@embarqmail.com" class="">bdpotterfarms@embarqmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:mtncrestllc@yahoo.com" class="">mtncrestllc@yahoo.com</a>, <a href="mailto:blountknowles@gmail.com" class="">blountknowles@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:chrishughes@chrishughes.com" class="">chrishughes@chrishughes.com</a>, <a href="mailto:chrishogan9786@gmail.com" class="">chrishogan9786@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:vernon.cox@ncagr.gov" class="">vernon.cox@ncagr.gov</a>.
And here is more information on the situation: </span><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.melissarooneywriting.com/blog/2021/12/petition-against-the-states-overriding-of-durhams-nomination-for-appointed-soil-and-water-conservation-district-supervisor/" class="">http://www.melissarooneywriting.com/blog/2021/12/petition-against-the-states-overriding-of-durhams-nomination-for-appointed-soil-and-water-conservation-district-supervisor/</a></span><span data-offset-key="fstfh-4-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.ncagr.gov/SWC/commission/aboutthecommission.html" class="">https://www.ncagr.gov/SWC/commission/aboutthecommission.html</a></span><div class=""><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="py34i1dx" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5);" class=""><font color="#371a94" class="">Thanks for caring and sharing!</font></span><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5);" class="">
Melissa (Rooney)</span></span></div><div class=""><span class="py34i1dx"><font color="#050505" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Note that I am an Associate Supervisor on Durham’s SWCD, though I am writing *solely* as a concerned Durham citizen here.</span></font></span></div></div></body></html>