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New 12/14/06 ALERT: Final No Casino PETITION COUNT 65,268
What looked like a disaster for us on 12/13 at the Crossroads PGCB hearing has actually turned out to be in our favor, helping us discover that we had 2,634 more signatures than previously reported.
When Ann L. Neeb, PGCB Director made her report to the board Neeb had reported that there were 1,434 petition signatures in the written evidentiary record. Everyone wondered what happened to the 62,634 signatures we had been reporting, since Neeb did not mention them. People who had collected the signatures were worried.
12/14 Crossroads jumped on the error and sent out a press release that No Casino had only 1,434 signatures, compared to Crossroads 5,606 signatures. (I haven't seen the release--just heard about it from several reporters) If they hadn’t done that, we might not have realized we had undercounted our signatures!
In response to queries, Doug Harbach, Deputy Director of Communications
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, submitted a statement 12/14/06:
"Anne Neeb’s comments referred only to the written submissions received during the public comment period. The voluminous petitions submitted by No Casino Gettysburg were part of the public hearing process and were entered into the evidentiary record. Therefore, all of those 62,634 petition signatures are also in evidence for the Board."
Douglas P. Harbach
Deputy Director of Communications
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
Then WE realized that our count never included the signatures in the written record. Harbach means the 62,634 is in addition to the 1,435. So we had actually 64,068.
But it gets better than that. As we were figuring it all out, we called the CWPT to verify their numbers, and found out that Tuesday, 12/12/06, they mailed a box of another 1,200 names to the Board. CWPT says they are still coming in but the person counting them, Mary Goundrey, decided to stop at 1,200 and that's it. The Board might have just received those today. So the final count of ours and CWPT is 65,268. This does not include what National Trust for Historic Preservation has submitted from THEIR online petition--I don't know their numbers.
Final numbers entered into the record: 65,268 vs. 5,606
Thanks to all AC and Hobby members who signed the petition.
What looked like a disaster for us on 12/13 at the Crossroads PGCB hearing has actually turned out to be in our favor, helping us discover that we had 2,634 more signatures than previously reported.
When Ann L. Neeb, PGCB Director made her report to the board Neeb had reported that there were 1,434 petition signatures in the written evidentiary record. Everyone wondered what happened to the 62,634 signatures we had been reporting, since Neeb did not mention them. People who had collected the signatures were worried.
12/14 Crossroads jumped on the error and sent out a press release that No Casino had only 1,434 signatures, compared to Crossroads 5,606 signatures. (I haven't seen the release--just heard about it from several reporters) If they hadn’t done that, we might not have realized we had undercounted our signatures!
In response to queries, Doug Harbach, Deputy Director of Communications
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, submitted a statement 12/14/06:
"Anne Neeb’s comments referred only to the written submissions received during the public comment period. The voluminous petitions submitted by No Casino Gettysburg were part of the public hearing process and were entered into the evidentiary record. Therefore, all of those 62,634 petition signatures are also in evidence for the Board."
Douglas P. Harbach
Deputy Director of Communications
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
Then WE realized that our count never included the signatures in the written record. Harbach means the 62,634 is in addition to the 1,435. So we had actually 64,068.
But it gets better than that. As we were figuring it all out, we called the CWPT to verify their numbers, and found out that Tuesday, 12/12/06, they mailed a box of another 1,200 names to the Board. CWPT says they are still coming in but the person counting them, Mary Goundrey, decided to stop at 1,200 and that's it. The Board might have just received those today. So the final count of ours and CWPT is 65,268. This does not include what National Trust for Historic Preservation has submitted from THEIR online petition--I don't know their numbers.
Final numbers entered into the record: 65,268 vs. 5,606
Thanks to all AC and Hobby members who signed the petition.
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