Mayor Kevin Foy accepted the Outstanding Achievement Award on behalf of the Town of Chapel Hill during the 2008 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the awards recognize outstanding and innovative practices to increase energy efficiency and to help curb global warming.
Chapel Hill was recognized for creating a fare-free transit system. Since 2001, Chapel Hill Transit has become the second largest transit system in North Carolina, with ridership rising from 3 million riders a year to more than 6.5 million riders annually projected for 2008.
Outstanding Achievement Awards were also awarded to the following cities:
(Large cities) -- Denver Mayor John W. Hickenlooper; Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman; Houston Mayor Bill White; and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
(Small cities) -- Chapel Hill (NC) Mayor Kevin C. Foy; Columbia (MO) Mayor Darwin Hindman; Highland Park (IL) Mayor Michael Belsky; and Orland Park (IL) Mayor Daniel J. McLaughlin.
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Wow - talk about not
Sat, 07/12/2008 - 23:16 — Anonymous (not verified)Wow - talk about not checking your facts. The town has never paid for the mayor's wife to attend anything. What other hyperbole do you engage in?
Reality? Check please
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 17:33 — Anonymous (not verified)Lets say there are 100,000 potential riders: 50,000 residents and 50,000 non-resident university affiliated students, professors, doctors, nurses, etc. etc. etc. To get ridership of 6,500,000, EVERY ONE of them would have to ride the bus MORE THAN ONCE every week of the year. Or, more than half of them would have to ride the bus at least twice a week. There is just no way those inflated statistics could even be close to real. Great example of more fact unchecked Town Hall lies trying to justify their monopolistic, special interest driven stranglehold on Chapel Hill taxes and taxpayers. These bozos have to go NOW.
More Money Spent For Naught
Thu, 07/03/2008 - 20:36 — ZippoI'd like to know how much Foy's little junket cost us taxpayers. Next time maybe he could just have the award sent to the town instead; it would cut down on inane self-indulgent expenses and lower the town's carbon footprint too.
His hand is so deep into your pocket, he's tickling your feet.
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 17:43 — Anonymous (not verified)Chapel Hill taxpayers paid for Mayor Foy's visit to South Korea in February, 2007, ostensibly because "Mayors of cities all over Asia will gather to learn more about how government can use technology to reach out to people. Foy also hopes to bring back some ideas Chapel Hill can implement." He took his wife Nancy along (yes, we paid for her too). Maybe both of them learned how to change their toner cartridges. Or, maybe not.
What a joke. More lame
Thu, 07/03/2008 - 14:55 — johnmkramerWhat a joke. More lame Chapel Hill doublespeak.
the ever-present corporation
Wed, 07/02/2008 - 08:21 — marcoplosbuying a little green cred itself with no more effort than getting their name on an award...