City of Asheville Staff Emails: Occupy Asheville

From: Dawa Hitch

Subject: Re: MEDIA CONTACT: Occupy Asheville information needed.

Date: 2011-10-24 21:20:39

To:

Councilman Smith,
Thanks for sharing this information. By copy of this email I'm
forwarding this information to the city manager and assistant city
manager.

Best,
Dawa

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Smith
To: Dawa Hitch
Sent: Mon Oct 24 20:49:01 2011
Subject: Re: MEDIA CONTACT: Occupy Asheville information needed.

Dawa,

Thanks for sending this along. I've spent several hours this week
meeting with Occupy Asheville participants, and I thought I'd pass along
a couple of things I've learned.

- there is not a single Occupy Asheville group - there are various
clusters operating under that name, and the 'leaderless' organizational
style is the case with each.

- The Lexington Ave. camping group has a variety of opinions regarding
strategies and ways forward.

See you tomorrow!

Gordon


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Dawa Hitch
wrote:


Mayor Bellamy and Council Members,



WWNC contacted me with questions about the Occupy Asheville
applications. He heard from someone at the site that there was not
going to be a request of Council to waive permit fees. Please see my
response below.



Dawa Hitch

Public Information Officer

City of Asheville

Office: 828.259.5981

Fax: 828.259.5499

dhitch@ashevillenc.gov



________________________________

From: Dawa Hitch
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 2:41 PM
To: 'Spencer, Tank'
Subject: RE: Occupy Asheville information needed.



Hi Tank,



There have been two applications. There was a group of people
representing Occupy Asheville that met with staff before the initial
application was filed. It was during that Oct. 14 meeting that the
group articulated an intention to ask Council to waive some part of the
permit fees.



There was a second application filed with different names
represented as the event organizer. The second application was received
last week and rescinded the first one.



I’ve attached both permit applications to this email.



I’m in a meeting from 3-4:30 p.m. I’ll keep an eye on my mobile
if you have any follow up questions.



Best,





Dawa Hitch

Public Information Officer

City of Asheville

Office: 828.259.5981

Fax: 828.259.5499

dhitch@ashevillenc.gov





________________________________

From: Spencer, Tank
[mailto:TankSpencer@clearchannel.com]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:06 PM
To: Dawa Hitch
Subject: Occupy Asheville information needed.
Importance: High



Dawa,



I know Tom said he was going to email you on this too, but...



I need to know whose name is on the Occupy Asheville permit. I
talked to a man today down there that said his was but I thought a woman
said on TV the other day she had the permit. I just need to confirm for
a story we are going to run first thing tomorrow., so I need to know
today.



Also the man said he had not heard that they would be asking for
the city to pick up the permit fees. He said he was in the meetings with
the city and doesn't recall that being said. The memorandum from Jeff
Richardson says that will be asked for tomorrow at the Council meeting.
So I need to know who said they'd ask for that.





Tank Spencer

Anchor / Reporter

Newsradio 570 WWNC

13 Summerlin Rd.

Asheville, NC 28806

phone: (828) 257-2700

email: tankspencer@clearchannel.com

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