[Durham INC] October Minutes (Draft)

[Pat Carstensen]

October
Delegate Meeting

Herald
Sun Community Room

October
27,2990

 

Meeting
was called to order by Craigie Sanders at 7:05pm.

 

Attending the meeting were:

 

Delegates and Alternates

Erin King - Colonial Village

Rebecca
Board – Downing Creek            

Bill
Anderson - Duke Park

Rosemarie Kitchin - Falconbridge

Joe Chambliss and Jay Levy - Forest Hills            

Craigie
Sanders - Grove Park

Jim
McDonald – Hope Valley

Jeane
Bross – Lakewood Park

Mike Shiflett - Northgate Park                        

Fred Foster-Old
Farm

Nancy Gallman – Old West Durham

Myers
Sugg and Susan Sewell - Tuscaloosa-Lakewood

Scott Carter - Woodcroft      

 

Visitors

Sue
Dayton and David Mickey – Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

Lynwood Best and Earl Phillips - City of Durham

Pat Carstensen - Cross County

Sandra
Reddish – DSS

Bob
Ashley – Herald Sun

Carolyn
Kreuger       -
Kids Voting Durham      

 

Announcements 

Bill
Anderson presented a plaque to Bob Ashley of the Herald-Sun in appreciation of
their hospitality of providing a place to meet.  Starting in January, we will be meeting elsewhere.

 

November
and December meetings will be combined into a mostly-holiday party on December
8th.  Please come and
bring something to share.

 

Sandra
Reddish spoke about November being Adoption Month.  There are 234 kids in foster care in Durham County; of these
20 are in the process of being adopted and 20 more are available for adoptions.
She would love to talk to neighborhood meetings, they are looking for mentors,
and with holidays coming up, you can provide gifts.  Her contact info is sreddish at durhamcountync.gov or
560-8080.

 

Kids
Voting still needs volunteers at some sites for the November 3 election.  All the candidates responded to the
kids’ questionnaire and were going to be at the candidate forum.

 

Lynwood
Best reported the there will be a landlord training session on November 7.  Also they are still looking for more
groups to do ComNet.

 

There
will be a meeting for DO Transit on November 4.

 

Presentations:

 

Contamination from Dry Cleaning Establishments – Sue Dayton of Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League (BREDL) gave a presentation.  BREDL started 25 years ago in response
to a proposal for a nuclear waste dump and has been working since then on
polluting industries affecting communities.  Their site on dry cleaning solvents is: http://www.bredl.org/drycleaningsolvents.htm

 

PERC
was introduced as a dry cleaning solvent in 1934, but really took off in the
1960’s.  It is really efficient (1
55 gallon drum cleans 8 tons of clothes), but it and its by-products are pretty
nasty stuff (affecting reproduction, neural system, liver, etc.).   EPA says it is “toxic, volatile, persistent, and
bio-accumulating.  There are over
2000 sites with PERC issues in NC. 
Most of the contamination is from establishments that were careless, not
any bad faith).  Durham’s geology
makes clean-up especially hard.  

 

The
Dry Cleaning Solvent Clean Up Act (DSCA) of 1997 established a fund to clean up
solvent, paid for with a tax on the chemicals and dry cleaners.  Unfortunately, it is underfunded for
the need, has a limit of $1M per site, minimizes the danger instead of cleaning
it up, and has no compensation for neighbors whose property is affected.  

 

Other
states are suing and mandating phase-outs.  What you can do is buy clothes that don’t need dry-cleaning,
choose wet-cleaning for clothes you can’t wash, and work to ban PERC.

 

Old
Business – Proposed By Laws Change

Mike
Shiflett moved and Bill Anderson seconded that we wait until January to take
final action on the by laws.  This
passed.

 

Jay
Levy moved and Mike Shiflett seconded to drop Section 7 (about
attendance).  This passed
unanimously.

 

There
will be a final report (in 2 versions, one showing changes and one a clean
copy) on the website.

 

Meeting was adjourned at 9:15pm.

 


 		 	   		  
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