{"id":1692,"date":"2011-01-19T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:09:45","slug":"we-were-for-it-before-we-were-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/we-were-for-it-before-we-were-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We were for it before we were against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1118-m0195-dam-discussion.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Charlottesville and County of Albermarle officials met January 18, 2011, to share water supply ideas. It was SRO.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1118-a0391-reversion-sign.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1118-a0390-dennis-rooker.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCounty Supervisor Dennis Rooker was very persuasive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1118-a0373-dredge-dam-sign.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMany City residents have contacted the elected representatives, arguing for a phased approach to water supply improvement.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/NOTES\/water-system.html\">I wrote the Council this past weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1118-a0375-edwards-snow.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLater in the day, January 18, City Council met and discussed the water supply.<br \/>\nMayor Dave Norris and Vice Mayor Holly Edwards wished to preserve the City&#8217;s water system assets. Councilors Huja, Szakos and Brown voted to amend Council&#8217;s September 20 resolution and build a thirty foot dam.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cj1119-c3179-hydrant.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRead more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthehook.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/18\/goodbye-dredging-brown-huja-szakos-opt-for-mega-dam\/\">The Hook<\/a><br \/>\nHawes Spencer and David Norris join Coy Barefoot to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2011\/01\/19\/charlottesville-right-now-hawes-spencer-and-dave-norris-join-coy-barefoot\/\">discuss<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2011\/01\/19\/charlottesville-right-now-kevin-lynch-and-dede-smith-join-coy-barefoot\/\">Kevin Lynch and Dede Smith join Coy Barefoot<\/a>.<br \/>\nJanuary 21, 2011, Mr. Huja joins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2011\/01\/21\/charlottesville-right-now-satyendra-huja-joins-coy-barefoot\/\">Coy Barefoot<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 25, 2011, Ms. Szakos joins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2011\/01\/25\/charlottesville-right-now-kristin-szakos-joins-coy-barefoot\/\">Coy Barefoot<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 25, 2011, Mayor Dave Norris joins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2011\/01\/25\/charlottesville-right-now-mayor-dave-norris-joins-coy-barefoot-2\/\">Coy Barefoot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Charlottesville and County of Albermarle officials met January 18, 2011, to share water supply ideas. It was SRO. County Supervisor Dennis Rooker was very persuasive. Many City residents have contacted the elected representatives, arguing for a phased approach to water supply improvement. I wrote the Council this past weekend. Later in the day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/we-were-for-it-before-we-were-against-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We were for it before we were against it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,34,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-government","category-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14686,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/14686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}