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the civic league,” Miller replied. “It was my hope that this activity would become unpopular enough in the community that we wouldn’t have to pass a law. People don’t usually stay where they aren’t wanted,’* said Latham. Gilkey maintained that the reason few people have complained about the community center is because only a few are affected. Thct’s not the case, according to Miller. “They just simply don’t want to appear because they’re afraid to* come...They don’t know what they’ll dp to them.”
Smoot asked the commonwealth’s attorney if he’d received any other complaints through his office on noise from the community center.
“1 don’t know of any but from you,” Baumgardner replied. : Washington attorney David Konick reminded the supervisors that they’d agreed by resolution to purchase noise monitoring equipment in response to a circuit court order that they do so as part of the settlement of the Nationwide Pentecostal Evangelistic Association’s campground case.
The noise scale set by the court order could be made part of the dance hall ordinance, he suggested. According to Konick, the equipment used to monitor that type of noise scale costs approximately $500.
Returning to his noise complaints, Smoot told the supervisors that he’d called Washington mayor Newbill Miller one night “and he sat in his yard and heard it at 12 o’clock.” Smoot acknowledged that some of the activities held at the community center create no disturbance but at others, participants are “sitting in their cars, blowing their car horns, whooping and hollering.”
“If you say that some nights it’s fine and on others, it’s noisy, who’s going to be the judge? Host are we going
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