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Council discusses Waste Connections settlement and public criticism on social media
Summary
During public comment and council remarks, speakers revisited a dispute with the town’s garbage vendor and a settlement the town reached; the town attorney and councilmembers described the legal reasoning and costs averted while a resident urged an end to social media attacks.
A resident told the Indian Trail Town Council on Feb. 25 she was “sick of it” after reading recurring social media posts blaming individual council members and the mayor for a dispute with the town’s garbage contractor, Waste Connections. The public commenter asked why citizens had been prevented from directing questions to individual council members during public comment and called the social media posts “silliness.”
Lynn Cole told the council that she believed the initial contract and the settlement had been approved by the full board and asked why the divisions and online accusations continued. “I’m sick of it,…
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