Payne is not the voice of Stevensburg District
Published: October 31, 2009
Thank you for Nate Delesline III’s excellent coverage of the County Planning Commission’s 4-3 vote to recommend home eviction for 77-year-old Alice Johnson of the Stevensburg District.
In the Oct. 15 story about Dewayne Payne’s candidacy for Stevensburg District supervisor, he said “I‘m very interactive with the residents of the community. I view myself as more so the voice of the Stevensburg District.”
If this is so, why did he attend the Oct. 6 hearing of the Board of Supervisors on the Johnson case and not speak publicly? Both Bill Chase and Gardiner Mulford did so on this and other topics.
Was Payne afraid to tell the audience of Stevensburg residents why he cast the deciding vote to recommend the eviction of Mrs. Johnson? Is this the type of person we want as the “voice of Stevensburg”?
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I do not have a horse in the Stevensburg race but the constant knocking of Dewayne Payne needs correction. He did not have the casting vote in the Alice Johnson case - the Chairman of the Planning Commission did. It would have been inappropriate for him to have spoken at the Supervisors’s meeting, as the Planning Commission Chairman had already made his recommendation to the Board, based on health, welfare and safety. In the event, the recommendation to deny renewal of the permit to allow Mrs Johnson to remain in her trailer without a well or septic had the effect of galvanizing the community to to finance the necessary improvements to make the home conform to code - and thus the Supervisors approved, with stipulations, her remaining in her home.
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