1) Conflict of interest:
Bob Panek simultaneously serving as PSA chair and Cape Charles rep. Hurt and Profitt getting paid to design the Cape Charles pipe and also getting paid on a no-bid contract to determine if Bayview is more cost effective than Cape Charles. Katie Nunez serving both as County Administrator and Executive Director of the PSA.

2) Flawed/biased assumptions in all their anaylses:
They get a total of 5 positive responses to their survey and Bob Panek tells the Cape Charles Town Council a few weeks ago there were 58 people in favor of the project because he counts everyone who doesn’t respond as a positive response. Hurt and Profitt’s study claims Bayview can’t provide enough capacity because IF Bayview, the Southern node and Cape Charles were 100% built out there would not be enough capacity. Bob Panek saying we may need 750,000 gallon plant because when Cape Charles, Bay Creek, and the Southern node are all 100% built out it may take that much. Have ANY of these people looked at the population censuses since 1930? Or the number of vacant lots in Bay Creek or the Southern node. At the current rate, NONE of these areas will be built out in the next 50 years.

Do we really need to sponsor corporate welfare for Food Lion and McDonald’s when we have failing schools and are about to lose our primary medical facilities? Does anyone really think what kind of sewer system you have makes that big a difference, when many of our fundamental services have already failed?

This project will saddle us and our children with unneeded debt for the next 20 years. This project started as a way to keep the hospital in Northampton County, then was going to treat Cheriton’s sewer needs, and has now morphed into corporate welfare almost nobody wants, but we will be paying for it for the next 20 years.

It’s time to end the PSA once and for all.

Bob Panek has driven the town of Cape Charles into debt and now he is raining his stupidity down on the whole county.

Stop this insanity and send the PSA packing NOW.