Plant owner: 81 jobs at risk (Pisgah Yarn & Dyeing selling assets, will likely close)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2678474/posts
This poor company of 81 employees was shelling out $150k for water and sewer ALONE.
Eliminating the mayor's and aldermen's pay will save the town $23k. To help save the jobs of town workers.
Read the article to see where their priorities lie. Not a word about reducing the burdens on businesses to prevent further private sector job losses.
On going without pay to prevent job losses in the public sector though, “I am willing to do that to save jobs,” said Stafford.
I grew up in a small town that had only significant business...a t-shirt factory. They had a significant production level of color shirts...thus meaning a pond or two out back of the facility had a good bit of sewage water that required processing, and yes, it went through the town’s sewage system. If you had to add it up....fifty percent of the waste water situation in my hometown came from that t-shirt factory.
I would imagine that Pisgah, Yarn & Dyeing were likely in the same situation. That $150k a year is very likely justified because the town had to procure an increased capability and run it proficiently. As for the jobs at risk? Just like the T-shirt factory in my hometown...I’m predicting it eventually closes and moves operations to Mexico. They will avoid any and all sewage requirements by doing this. Problem solved.
I ride by Old Fort when I travel up 40 but never stopped. Growing up in KM I feel the pain of the closing of textiles. I still remember the day NAFTA was signed fruit of the looms closed the KM plant laying off 400 people.