Heated exchange over fire district

61 Comments

1. 

   Nancy

    /  March 15, 2013

   Diogenes — Thanks to your comments, I’m learning Latin. You don’t happen to know Spanish, do you? I really would find it useful to brush up on my Spanish.

2. 

   Many

    /  March 15, 2013

   Hmmmmm.

   Suficiente! or Ya no mas! or Basta!

   I tend to agree with Bonnie. (and apparently his-honor) that the tools of ETJ and annexation are broken.

   Perhaps the ETJ notion is an idea whose time has past.

   風向轉變時,有人築牆,有人造風車 “when the direction of the wind changes, some build walls, some make windmills” – Chinese Proverb

3. 

   Deborah Fulghieri

    /  March 15, 2013

   Crickets on whether UNC and Town have contract for the CHFD providing fire service for campus…

4. 

   Many

    /  March 15, 2013

   Yea. His-honers presentation might not have gone over so well 🙁

   I wonder what 15 cents per hundred is on the university properties 🙂

5. 

   Bonnie Hauser

    /  March 15, 2013

   zero

6. 

   DOM

    /  March 17, 2013

   This is NOT something we should take lightly.

7. 

   Mark Marcoplos

    /  March 17, 2013

   “風向轉變時,有人築牆,有人造風車 “when the direction of the wind changes, some build walls, some make windmills” – Chinese Proverb”

   Or we grovel and ask permission from the NC leg to do what we want.”

8. 

   Many

    /  March 18, 2013

   Some would call that making windmills.

9. 

   Deborah Fulghieri

    /  March 20, 2013

   The governor’s proposal to cut $138,000,000 from the UNC budget doesn’t bode well for the CHFD– does this mean no further contribution to the F.D. budget?
   http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x145780847/UNC-system-to-take-hit-under-McCrory-s-budget-proposal

   Many(whoever you are): I found this link to a list of capital investments over the past year, and more, at UNC. http://chapelhillpublic.novusagenda.com/AttachmentViewer.ashx?AttachmentID=11267&ItemID=2126

10. 

    Many

     /  March 21, 2013

    Hi Deborah,

    The 138M represents cuts across the whole UNC system, NC State, UNC, NC Central A&T etc. I do not have intimate details of the cuts, or the projected impacts to UNC specifically.

    The capital investment sheet is for just UNC Chapel Hill only. The only suspect item (to me) is $3,500,000 Finley Golf Course Club House Addition – and that looks as if it is being funded by gifts. (I just wonder if the money was earmarked for the project or could have been used to fund more important research).

    This brings up the subject of the UNC endowment which is in the exclusive club of Universities with endowments over 1 billion dollars. In 2012 was $2.179 Billion (just UNC CH) this is somewhat remarkable in a list dominated by private universities (Duke has 5.55 Billion). Certainly UNC CH is a very wealthy university, but those monies do have spending constraints.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

    North Carolina has one of (if not the) best public secondary education systems in the country. Despite recent scandals and criticisms, the system is a terrific boost to research, economic development and employment. I hope the NC Leg is aware of the impacts and consequences of the cuts statewide. I hope certain members of the NC Leg are not using the current opportunity to settle old scores and narrow political agendas without regard for the consequence.

    UNC is not alone. I think there are lessons to be learned from what has happened to the UC university system after state cuts were introduced in the late 1990’s. These cuts are about to fall very hard again on a weakened system with Prop 30. Hopefully we can do better in North Carolina.

    As far as fire protection goes, I hope and pray there is not a tragedy like the fire at the Phi Gamma Delta frat house in 2006. Certainly the houses are by far safer than they were seven years ago. If there were a fire, I am certain Chapel Hill fire (and other departments) would respond as they did then, with all of their might, but under funding the Chapel Hill fire department is a risk and a gamble. I wonder if the accountability for a preventable tragedy would stretch all the way to Raleigh.

11. 

    DOM

     /  March 21, 2013

    “As far as fire protection goes, I hope and pray there is not a tragedy like the fire at the Phi Gamma Delta frat house in 2006.”

    What about a rogue asteroid?!