Monday, April 19, 2004
Onslow County Commisioners Meeting 2004-04-19
Tonight I present a Resolution for Onslow County Commissioners to submit to our legislators to Keep Onslow Beautiful and our entire State.
We want to thank you for your support in our fight against littering last year. Unfortunately ,
Isabel came along and shut us right down.
We have started the program all over again now beginning where we left last year. Our goal is to reach every man, woman and child asking them to join in this fight against littering.
To further help us reach this goal we would like you to submit the following to our legislators to become a condition of all privilege licenses. We hope this will make everyone conscious of the fact that littering is illegal and make them stop and think before discarding their trash.
The idea is very simple, but we think it will produce excellent results in curtailing littering. Please reword it to your own satisfaction.
{Resolved, we, The Commissioners of Onslow County, hereby request that the words, “I/We will not litter”, appear right above the signature line of all future new and renewal privilege licenses, both individual and commercial granted by the State of North Carolina.”)
Personal licenses would be driving, hunting ,fishing, trapping, etc and commercial would be fishing, all forms of contracting, and trades licenses like, insurance, banking, lawyers, doctors etc.
I talked with Sarah Humphries about this before her retirement and with Lisa Stokesbury, her replacement, and both like this idea.
Everyone I have spoken to about it thinks it is a great idea and that it should help curtail litter.
I even wrote Gov. Easeley and he suggested I request our legislator to introduce such a bill.
I have never done this, but now feel the time is ripe to do this and that it would be received much better and have much more clout coming from you instead of The Trashman.
We want to thank you for your support in our fight against littering last year. Unfortunately ,
Isabel came along and shut us right down.
We have started the program all over again now beginning where we left last year. Our goal is to reach every man, woman and child asking them to join in this fight against littering.
To further help us reach this goal we would like you to submit the following to our legislators to become a condition of all privilege licenses. We hope this will make everyone conscious of the fact that littering is illegal and make them stop and think before discarding their trash.
The idea is very simple, but we think it will produce excellent results in curtailing littering. Please reword it to your own satisfaction.
{Resolved, we, The Commissioners of Onslow County, hereby request that the words, “I/We will not litter”, appear right above the signature line of all future new and renewal privilege licenses, both individual and commercial granted by the State of North Carolina.”)
Personal licenses would be driving, hunting ,fishing, trapping, etc and commercial would be fishing, all forms of contracting, and trades licenses like, insurance, banking, lawyers, doctors etc.
I talked with Sarah Humphries about this before her retirement and with Lisa Stokesbury, her replacement, and both like this idea.
Everyone I have spoken to about it thinks it is a great idea and that it should help curtail litter.
I even wrote Gov. Easeley and he suggested I request our legislator to introduce such a bill.
I have never done this, but now feel the time is ripe to do this and that it would be received much better and have much more clout coming from you instead of The Trashman.
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