Comments on: No Name Key electrification gets another public charge

By: Kathy Brown

Kathy Brown — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:33:18 +0000

No Name Key Myths
There are many myths regarding No Name Key. Here are just two.
1. Residents who originally purchased land and built house were assured of infrastructure coming to No Name Key. It was later, that one resident got on the planning committee and while in a law suit, wrote an ordinance that prohibits electricity, potable water, telephone and cable from residents of No Name Key.
2. Stand Alone solar power is a viable alternative, environmentally “green” energy. Our houses on No Name Key are battery operated. Most of our lea d acid batteries are charged by solar and some of the lead acid battery charging occurs by generators. Nothing about lead acid batteries and generators are helpful to the environment.
What is amazing is the Board of County Commissioners allows the super majority of residents on No Name Key to be held hostage by the language written by one. Can anyone imagine asking the residents of Monroe County to be prohibited cable, telephones, water or electricity?

By: Richard Coleman

Richard Coleman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:04:34 +0000

I have been a registered voter in Monroe County and a resident of No Name Key for over 15 years. The residents of NNK deserve the same public entitlements (ie. clean water, clean air etc.) that the rest of Monroe County residents enjoy. The majority of NNK residents are willing to pay for this public service. Not at the over inflated guess-timates provided by Mayor Neugent et al., but at the scientifically based estimates (including systems in operation within the State of Florida) paid for by proponents of the central sewer project. The apathy exhibited by certain county politicians for this public works project is apparently based on a future claim to have saved the taxpayers money at re-election time. It’s time these people are voted out. Remember, the residents that are opponents of central sewers are in the minority.

By: Kristie Killam

Kristie Killam — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:27:38 +0000

I am sick of listening to comments like those of Ms. Wigington that suggest that homeowners on No Name Key knew they weren’t getting utilities.

Get your facts straight Ms. Wigington, the original homeowners on NNK were promised electricity and other utilities by the electric company.

And now that the vast majority of homeowners (over 65%) want sewer and electric, you make up 90% as a target. What planet are you from?

By: Beth Ramsay-Vickrey

Beth Ramsay-Vickrey — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:08:34 +0000

In this County, and in the State of Florida, 60% constitutes a Super Majority in an election, or on a ballet. The No Name Key Property Owners Association represents More than this 60% Super Majority; this has been demonstrated and is indisputable.

It is the Duty of our elected officials to represent the wishes of the Majority.

In case any of our elected officials has forgotten this duty, please refresh yourself with the Immortal Words of Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address: “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

We, the people of No Name Key, have spoken:

1) Composting toilets are not an acceptable “advanced” wastewater solution for No Name Key.
(2) We will not accept a composting toilet, in any form.
(3) We will not give up our flush toilets.
(4) We do not want, nor will we accept, an experimental wastewater treatment system.
(5) We will not have our homes devalued and our lives degraded by these actions.
(6) Treating NNK differently by not providing a central sewer connection and utilities is discrimination and must stop.
(7) No Name Key residents need to be treated the same as every other taxpayer in this County.
(8) No Name Key is not a remote offshore island; we are connected to Big Pine via a wide modern concrete bridge; just as all the Keys are connected via these types of bridges.
(9) We are not a “campground”, as was implied in a newspaper article; we are a community of 43 homes.
(10) The No Name Key Property Owners Association represents a “Super Majority” of the homeowners on No Name Key. Our position as the Majority has been clear and consistent for over a year: we want a central sewer connection, and any utilities needed to run it.
(11) We will protect our homes, and the quality of our lives.

It is high time that our elected officials listen and act accordingly.

By: Randy Hochberg

Randy Hochberg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:57:55 +0000

When I moved to No Name Key, I never could have imagined I would be forced by the County Comissioners to install and use an OUTHOUSE in my own bathroom. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!! OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!

By: Jennifer Sweet

Jennifer Sweet — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:52:04 +0000

The rules that say No Name Key can not have electricity were put in place wrongly. There is no reason that No Name key should not have electricity, and there never was. What kind of cruel person would deny other people the right to live in comfort and peace.? If you want to live without, then fine do as you wish. Don’t force your desire to live without modern conveinences on anyone else. Mrs Wiggington, I hear you having an experimental grey water system designed for us, so that not only can we pollute the ocean we can all have composting toilets. OVER MY DEAD BODY

By: John Lentini

John Lentini — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:16:24 +0000

Now the DOH has let it slip out that what they plan for No Name Key is composting toilets and an experimental gray water system.

Over my dead body!

They will take away my flush toilet when they pry my cold dead ass from the seat!

By: Sal Gutierrez

Sal Gutierrez — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:35:54 +0000

Neugent is the man behind the curtain on this issue, he controls the hillbilly in Key Largo and Mrs.Wigington has a hole in her back where Neugent and Putney control strings that are connected straight to her mandibles.
Will we ever know how NNK got pulled off the FKAA list since the EPA reports found that Bahia Shore Drive (Ms. Putney’s Street) on No Name Key was on a “hot spot” list for fecal pollution from 1993 – 2001. Then No Name Key disappeared from the County’s Sanitary Wastewater Plan and no one can explain how that happened. No Name Key had been in previous “drafts” of the wastewater plan as a “hot spot” and then, poof – it was gone. Ms. Alicia Putney joined the Wastewater Task Force as a member representing No Name Key in 2000. Coincident? Others are beginning to wonder and ask questions.