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At Thursday night’s meeting of the Fayette County Commission, new Commissioner Allen McCarty accused a county contractor of using “intimidation” tactics in efforts to acquire land for the second phase of the West Fayetteville Bypass.
McCarty said he had a copy of a letter that was written to a property owner by an agent of the county. McCarty noted that the letter was written on county letterhead with official county stationery, despite the fact that the letter writer “is not an employee or direct representative of Fayette County.”
McCarty said he was very disturbed by the use of county letterhead in the matter, which he considered an act of “intimidation.”
McCarty, who ran for office last year on an anti-bypass platform, said he will continue to work against the project.
“I understand we don’t have the authority to actually stop that project, but we can move it and alter it, and I want to finish the one we started on first, the number-one priority … the East Fayetteville Bypass,” McCarty said, drawing a round of applause from a contingent of West Fayetteville Bypass opponents who had attended the meeting.
The commission took no action on McCarty’s information, nor was there any further discussion on the topic.
Although the matter was not listed on the agenda, McCarty brought the matter up at the end of the meeting.
