Chad Nesbitt was the life of the party at the Buncombe County Commissioners’ meeting. The state requires Pack Square Park to have showers because its “interactive fountain” is considered to be a swimming pool. Nesbitt asked, “What are you going to do when all the hippies downtown decide to take a shower?”
He complained about an item on the consent agenda reflecting an increase in the county budget due to $7514 in federal pass-through funds for sterilizing seven women. He referred to the action as a ridiculous use of taxpayer funds and asked rhetorically if the commissioners needed him to “bring it to their attention every time they do something crazy like that.”
Lastly, Aaron Penland, who constantly reminds the commissioners about the CTS scare in the Mills River area, presented the commissioners with a styrofoam cup. He explained later they had a tea bag in them. It was an omen of what happens to politicians who do not listen to their constituents. Following that, Nesbitt told Penland before the commissioners, “I thought you had some of that CTS water in there.”
