We attended the Lebanon Town meeting with the purpose of speaking against the proposed Moss 3 mega landfill. We have always had a pleasant experience while attending any of these meetings, even though we did not reside under some of their jurisdictions, and this time was no different. Myself and two other people spoke during the public comment period. Myself and another woman spoke against the Moss 3 mega landfill coming to Russell County during our entire allotted 3 minuets.
The third woman started speaking and I instantly knew I had heard that voice before, but I could not place her face. When she stated why she wanted to speak, everything started falling into place. After she stated her primary reason, she then said she also opposed the Moss 3 mega landfill, and then started talking about the main purpose she came to speak about. I want to apologize upfront for the quality of the audio.
I did not realize that they would not be using a PA system and my iPhone was in my pocket recording everything using the Voice Recorder app. I assure you the next audio I record and post, will be done in a professional manner or as close as I can get to it, depending on the circumstances. Very seldom do I make excuses for my mistakes and this time is no different.
I simply did not do my due diligence to find out how they had their meeting room setup, which led to the paragraph above, which now will explain my next sentence. I could not recover the audio from the second woman that spoke and I wanted to publicly apologize to her. Her voice is so soft my iPhone simply could not pick her up. That will never happen again when I record something to be posted to this website.
The audio below is in a mp3 format and is 6 minutes and 27 seconds. When you hear me laughing, it is because I knew I was third in line to speak, and the Mayor was asking for help reading my name. When I spoke to the woman going up to the podium to speak, she had made a statement of how nervous she was and apologized to the Board for losing her train of thought because of it. I wanted to reassure her that she did just fine, and I told her to watch how a really nervous person blows it. Everybody laughed and I instantly accomplished my mission of supporting her efforts and letting her it’s OK to be nervous.