Williston, ND Active Issues

SteveKemp wrote:

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The mosquitoes are starting to show up, if you want to know more about what Vector Control is up to start here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WillistonVector
There are 14 videos and counting showing a summation of what we do.  Please comment on anything you see on the youtube site or here if you prefer, we appreciate your feedback, good and bad.

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I do think these videos are worth viewing again

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173#docid=5355374476580235299

sigma sigma, always calling names and hurling insults...

so quick to hate and very closed minded,



yes the federal reserve is our central bank, it alone prints money "federal reserve notes"  and sets interest rates.  prints money backed by nothing out of thin air and that's why we are in the mess we are today...

p.s. you can't have free market capitalism with a central bank either... so the idea that we are a free constitutional republic, or have had free market capitalism at all since 1913 is a lie.

p.p.s. the federal reserve is a privately owned bank, not run by our government, but one could probably say it owns our government and nation and all of us today...

:)

I do think that would be a great selling point steve. I think you would be suprised at how many would love to support the tax. So far the little buggers are fewer in numbers this year, think what it will be like in a few years. I for one am all for it.

I agree on a sales tax,

like you said, people can avoid it then if needed.

direct taxes on income and property are unconstitutional,

http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/income-tax-declared-unconstitutional

but that's under our free republic, which technically we haven't been since 1913 when the federal reserve became our "central bank" you can't have a central bank in a free soceity,

it's one of ten pillars of the communist manifesto however,

10 point program of Communism

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

I'm guessing the sell on this is that through a half cent tax the county residents don't necessiarly HAVE to pay for it anymore.  They can buy their "stuff" elsewhere.  This takes away the "being forced to pay for it" part of it all.

Grasping at straws? 

SteveKemp wrote:

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Believe it or not, the application of the larvacide they are using is very effective and I have witnessed the effects of those treatments.  We simply don't have the resources to treat the entire area all at once and several times like it needs.  It takes 105 passes to cover the 4 mile width of the river bottoms (swamp).

The C-130 from the Air Force is spraying a product called Vectobac 12AS, which is bacteria that the mosquito larva eat and it crystallizes in their gut and they die.  The yellow bi-plane is operated by Aero Spraying who is under contract from Williston Vector Control, and they are applying Vectobac 12AS as well.  The product kills the larva before they get a chance to bite you.  This year has been especially challenging for several reasons.  One, the Air Force was a week late getting here because they were in the Gulf of Mexico spraying the oil slick with a dispersant.  And two, the river has gone over 22 feet which is a foot higher than it got last year, and thus there is that much more flooded swamp area just south of town.  The river bottoms are 4 miles wide and just about that whole area is flooded and creates a huge breeding area for the mosquitoes. 

The Air Force brings in several entomologists and they have been all over the world and they comment that they have never seen anything quite like Williston.  Our challenge is this, we don't have a big enough taxable base population to effectively control the breeding sites in the river bottom.  It is fair to say that we don't have a mosquito problem, we have a funding problem, because we could effectively treat this area if we had enough funds to do so.  We did get an increase from $2/month to $4/month from the citizens of Williston and that was hugely appreciated however it is simply not enough to do the job.  We have been told by experts that our problem is a $2.5-3 million dollar a year problem and we treat it with around $600,000 if you count $200,000 which goes to the Air Force and Trenton from an ear mark from Senator Dorgan's office.

There is an idea floating around to attempt to get the 1/2 cent county wide sales tax to go to Vector Control when the county is done paying for the jail which could happen in the next 2-4 years.  This tax currently generates around $3 million/year in revenue for the county to pay back the bond on the new jail and law enforcement center.  This is just in the idea stage and is just talk so I am curious what other people think of the idea.  We would have to increase the Vector Control District to cover the whole county prior to attempting to use the sales tax.  Also, if the sales tax was to be used for Vector Control we would then get rid of our $4/month water bill charge, as well as the 1 mil property tax levy as well.  We would love to hear what people think of this idea and any thoughts and comments.

Thanks,

Steve Kemp

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Steve, I would rather pay a half cent for this then anything!! All that money spent on walking paths and very few use them. The swarms carry a body away. Brave - heavily sprayed people move fast on the paths.

 

Believe it or not, the application of the larvacide they are using is very effective and I have witnessed the effects of those treatments.  We simply don't have the resources to treat the entire area all at once and several times like it needs.  It takes 105 passes to cover the 4 mile width of the river bottoms (swamp).

The C-130 from the Air Force is spraying a product called Vectobac 12AS, which is bacteria that the mosquito larva eat and it crystallizes in their gut and they die.  The yellow bi-plane is operated by Aero Spraying who is under contract from Williston Vector Control, and they are applying Vectobac 12AS as well.  The product kills the larva before they get a chance to bite you.  This year has been especially challenging for several reasons.  One, the Air Force was a week late getting here because they were in the Gulf of Mexico spraying the oil slick with a dispersant.  And two, the river has gone over 22 feet which is a foot higher than it got last year, and thus there is that much more flooded swamp area just south of town.  The river bottoms are 4 miles wide and just about that whole area is flooded and creates a huge breeding area for the mosquitoes. 

The Air Force brings in several entomologists and they have been all over the world and they comment that they have never seen anything quite like Williston.  Our challenge is this, we don't have a big enough taxable base population to effectively control the breeding sites in the river bottom.  It is fair to say that we don't have a mosquito problem, we have a funding problem, because we could effectively treat this area if we had enough funds to do so.  We did get an increase from $2/month to $4/month from the citizens of Williston and that was hugely appreciated however it is simply not enough to do the job.  We have been told by experts that our problem is a $2.5-3 million dollar a year problem and we treat it with around $600,000 if you count $200,000 which goes to the Air Force and Trenton from an ear mark from Senator Dorgan's office.

There is an idea floating around to attempt to get the 1/2 cent county wide sales tax to go to Vector Control when the county is done paying for the jail which could happen in the next 2-4 years.  This tax currently generates around $3 million/year in revenue for the county to pay back the bond on the new jail and law enforcement center.  This is just in the idea stage and is just talk so I am curious what other people think of the idea.  We would have to increase the Vector Control District to cover the whole county prior to attempting to use the sales tax.  Also, if the sales tax was to be used for Vector Control we would then get rid of our $4/month water bill charge, as well as the 1 mil property tax levy as well.  We would love to hear what people think of this idea and any thoughts and comments.

Thanks,

Steve Kemp

I have not been in areas in Williston, but stop, you are sending them to the country.  J/K

Over by the main street area they are getting fairly rough. I think we have one yard that might be an issue. North side of Harmon Park.

Several of us were spraying, weed eating, mowing, checking water puddles, cleaning behind the garage, bug killer galore and unless we can get all yards to help, I think we will still have a problem.

Is it legal to spray into a neighbors yard?