[Announce] Meeting with Tom Nitido - City Comptroller

[Lynne Jackson]

Dear Sally & all,

Good work, Sally!

It sounds like you have Mr. Nitido's ear, and hopefully, he will  
listen.  Keep us informed on progress.

Lynne Jackson


On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Sally Cummings wrote:

>
> Hi Lynne and all interested in not expanding the landfill into more  
> of the Pinebush,
>
> The meeting with Tom Nitido, City Comptroller, went extremely  
> well!   He is a very nice person and an environmentalist to boot!    
> Unfortunately he tried to call me before I meeting to postpone it  
> because of a sudden urgent family thing that he had to attend to.   
> However, when he called I was already outside City Hall parking the  
> car, so he agreed to see me but requested that the meeting should  
> be shortened.  That was fine with me because I was able to outline  
> everything I wanted to say and then left the backup materials for  
> him to look at.  I actually discussed stuff for 30 minutes.  He  
> said that he would definitely look at it and would call me back to  
> discuss things and perhaps set up a follow up meeting.  He made  
> notes and was delighted when I told him that he could keep the  
> backup stuff.
>
> At the end of the meeting he said that he was so glad that I did  
> not say that the City should not expand into the Pinebush, but  
> rather had concrete ideas of how the City could make money so that  
> it would not have to take in Allied Waste and outside haulers, so  
> making the current landfill last longer.  He really liked my ideas  
> about recycling and reuse.
>
> I would say that the meeting was very promising and that he is very  
> sympathetic, enthusiastic, "green" person to deal with.  If anyone  
> has any questions regarding this meeting, please email me.
>
>
> Sally
>
> Happy people don't have the best of everything but make the best of  
> everything they have