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Supervisor blasted about refusal to dig ditch |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
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Davida Hill-Beckum
Brad Collins, a resident of District 1, addressed District 1 Supervisor Lynn Horton's decision not to dig a ditch on TVA road during the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday.
“The people of District 1 voted you in to take care of us as a whole,” Collins said, “not only the elected officials. Instead of doing the work your voters ask you to do put in a call to Johnny Wayne and see what he wants done.”
Collins statement referred to West Point Fire Chief Johnny Littlefield, whose mother lives adjacent to the land where Collins would like the ditch to be dug.
After speaking to Mike Collins, father of Brad Collins Nov3 4, Horton said he thought the issue had been resolved.
“I went out there and spoke with Mr. Collins,” Horton said. “He told me he was pleased with the work that had been done.”
County workers cleaned the mouth of the culvert of debris to allow water to flow through easier.
Brad Collins told Horton four times during the meeting “he was not his father.”
Thursday afternoon, Littlefield said he was not aware there was still a “ditch” issue.
“I thought everything had been resolved yesterday,” Littlefield said. “It seems like a lot to do about nothing.”
Horton's said was he would not put a ditch there. Horton said he would “prefer not to inconvenience anyone with the digging process if the ditch isn't necessary, especially not a senior citizen.”
Collins said the next time he has to work on a weekend for five hours to clean county property, he will call Horton.
“We worked out there for five hours on Sunday,” Collins said. “We called you and you wouldn't come because you were digging a grave.”
Collins said Horton's decision not to dig on TVA Road was racially motivated.
“Because I live in District 1 and I am white, it doesn't get done,” Collins said. “If more people would speak up you wouldn't be in office.”
According to Collins, he called the county shed in 2005 to dig a grave for a deceased grandparent and was told that county supervisors did not dig graves. Littlefield and his mother are white.
Horton was not a supervisor in 2005.
Jessie J. Ivy, a former election commissioner, appeared on the genda. Ivy did not get the outcome he was seeking during the meeting.
Before the meeting began, Ivy distributed questions to each of the supervisors “to see how they would respond to certain situations.” Before Horton could answer the first question, Board Attorney Lee Coleman objected to the answering the questions.
“Besides the fact that I don't see these questions being relevant to the county business being conducted here today,” Coleman said “I would also have to advise the supervisors not to answer these questions from a legal perspective.”
Ivy said he thought any questions raised by a tax-paying citizens should be addressed.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 09 November 2009 )
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