You think that is crazy you ought to see some of the offers and contracts they are making people sign that they are buying property from. Or should I say trying to steal from.

Randy Ellis
randyellis@gmail.com

This is the same tactic TVA continues to use on people that still need help. It is intimidation designed to make the whole community fold. TVA has no heart. They sit back hoping they receive immunity for the disaster. Immunity would be a bigger crime than what they are already doing; murdering our beautiful county.
Maybe it is getting to the point that we have to do something even we have been trying to avoid; get radical. I still hope it doesn't come to that, because the negative PR would be just as bad for the county as it would TVA. But, what are we supposed to do now. These people do not care about anyone reading this post. They do not care who suffers, or who has lost what.
Folks, it's time to turn up the heat with everything we can find that puts TVA in hot water. It's time for everybody that has time to start researching, and telling it like it is. We can no longer wait to see if they really want to make us happy and whole again. Everybody needs to be at meetings asking questions and putting them on the spot. And if some of our elected officials try to silence us, then we put them on the spot too.
This TVA strong arming has got to stop. It has gone on much too long. It appears that our only hope is COMMUNITY UNITY. If we do not step up now, we deserve what we get.

The ethical baseline in which TVA conducts business and makes business decisions is most appauling. My guess is three words, "Shook and Hardy".

TVA does not care that they are not holding up their commitments.

TVA does not care that communities and neighborhoods have been severely altered due to their liable actions and lack of properly engineered / maintained Fly Ash mountain.

TVA's culture does not include accountability.

SM

I guess I'm just really dense, but I just don't understand why TVA isn't helping us? Do they not care about PR? Here's my biggest question: Why does it seem that they'd rather that we are all running around telling bad stories about our situations rather then good ones? Do they not care about the black eye they are getting? Do they not care that when 60 Minutes came out to our house, we had nothing but bad stories to tell? Wouldn't they rather that when 60 Minutes airs we are standing there telling the world how well TVA treated us? The 60 Minutes producer said that he hopes when he comes back at the beginning of August that we won't talk to him because TVA has bought our home. Then everyone laughed because nobody sees it happening. I just really don't get it.

Our situations are small peanuts to the pocketbooks of a big entity like TVA. Seems to me that settling some of these situations would go a long way towards buying some good PR for TVA, for cheap. I guess they just like to be known as the company that doesn't care.

I agree!

Randy Ellis
randyellis@gmail.com

"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

C.S.Lewis 1898-1963

Ah, but we do now see the result.

I may have hit the nail on the head that TVA had turned Kingston's invoices over to their Department of Dirty Tricks.

Soon after my posting, a teleconference was set up between Kingston’s City Manager and several TVA employees.

That meeting led me to ask:

1. Until April, had the TVA been paying faster than now? In other words, why did they slow down their payments to us?
2. If TVA had been paying us in a timely manner, why suddenly must they have a contract in order to continue to pay us in a timely manner?
3. Had we already sent a May bill and now they are saying they hadn’t received it.
4. How much money did we bill TVA in April and in May?

The answers I was given:

Until the April bill they [the TVA] had been paying us after about two weeks.

[Now]They say that without a contract, we send a bill, and no one knows what to charge the payment against.

Therefore, it may lay on someone’s desk for a few days.

They also gave us a different address, although that had not been a problem in the past.

They said the April billing will be paid on June 16.

We sent a bill for May expenditures on June 5, which they did not have available during the meeting yesterday. We sent that again today directly by email to Ms. Ellis.

The April billing was $65,435.86 and the May billing was $55,148.00.

We sent the revised contract [our response to the TVA's one sided deal] back to them today.

Brant W Williams, Member Kingston City Council

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