By Beth Mechum
Staff Writer
Marilyn Kille said she is going to appeal her Sept. 14 misdemeanor forgery conviction in the court case between her and the Town of Carrboro.
In a press conference Tuesday, she said she has new affidavits from contractors that vindicate her in both the forgery case and in her long-running civil case with the town over an apartment on her property on Fayetteville Road.
Mayor Mark Chilton said Tuesday he didn’t understand what Kille’s goal was in appealing the forgery case.
“My understanding is that she admitted to all the essential elements of the crime,†he said. “I’m not sure what there is to appeal.â€
Kille has a resident living in the apartment that triggered the dispute; but, due to a settlement she signed, he will leave at the end of this month.
The resident, Chris Higginbotham, a student in the graduate program at the UNC School of Journalism, spoke at the board of aldermen meeting Tuesday night, asking the board to allow him to stay until December, when he will be graduating, saying that he was innocent in all of this.
Chilton said that though he was sympathetic to Higginbotham’s situation, the board did not think it appropriate to grant Kille any more extensions.
Kille signed an agreement with the town last month requiring her to not rent out the apartment and make her property available for inspections.
What the CC hasn’t reported to date is the whole truth.
Take a look at Carrboro Planning Board Minutes for Oct. 2, 2008 and you’ll see where Planning Administrator Trish McGuire, and Development Dept. staff James Thomas and Marty Roupe confirmed during a public PB meeting when asked about the barn [SEE pg. 2, l. 7-8]:
“Yes! A CO (Certificate of Occupancy) was issued in 1997.” (a “CO” is issued only AFTER a residence has passed its final inspections satisfactorily in this instance, on/about Dec. 15, 1997 with incumbent inspector, Donnie Williams and Hillsborough Plumbing owner, Gary Riggs AND NOT on Dec. 1, 1997 with former inspector, Don Knight, as Carrboro’s head inspector, Mike Canova, and its lawyers and mayor have claimed to date.
http://www.ci.carrboro.nc.us/AdvBoards/Minutes/2008/PB_100208M.pdf
In addition to 200+ photos, original signed and dated permits, construction plans, proposals, work orders, equipment purchase records, computer-generated contractor diagrams, invoices, canceled checks and bank records — AND notarized affidavits from contractors — what more proof of corruption could anyone want?
Is there something wrong with this picture???
If you want to know the truth about our town’s leadership, YOU’D BETTER READ THIS WEB ENTRY FAST. Because IT’S LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR ONCE THIS COMMENT IS POSTED — as all other pertinent town inspection documents have to date. MK
I have trouble understanding that the mayor, the courts, the newspaper, and the town staff have all been wrong on this matter of an illegal apartment. I have done things the wrong way myself, but by the time everyone in town was talking about my conviction, I think I would throw in the towel just for my peace of mind.
Thanks for this thought, Chris. The problem is that no judge, no court, no alderman, no public official has ever viewed the evidence. Why? Because Carrboro’s mayor and attorneys have engaged in tactics that have prevented this. So, with this in mind, you are cordially invited to view the truth! And, in so doing, to decide for yourself. And to understand “why” Mr. Chilton and the town’s outside attorney has subjected my farm to provisions of an “urban LUO” that they now deny even exists. My caretaker apartment is not “illegal” under county or state laws — only under Carrboro’s. Why? Because it’s non-existent urban code — the one that exists because these individuals have publicly opposed its own Planning Board’s efforts to implement as protctive Farm Code (6/09) — can’t allow the latter and continue to benefit from developing the town’s urban core. This arises from the monkey-wrench that the state’s new water quality laws imposed on the town (6/09) which requires Carboro to reduce contamination by 35% by 2016! Well, it can’t do both! Not without controlling the ETJ land to offset mounting urban water contamination. Complicated? Yes! Truthful? You decide! Read Mr. Chilton’s 7/5/07 letter to the State for an explanation of the town’s agenda: http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/nps/documents/Carrboro-7-5-07JordanRulesletterfrommayor.pdf.