Project Ballast — Who Raised What, By Meeting (v4)

mrx_bethune sentiment ledger · regenerated live from DB pivots 7/19/26 · Fork-D union-dedupe convention (both 7/14 sources unioned, deduped on speaker×valence×bucket; within-meeting multiplicity preserved) · supersedes v3

● opposed on theme · ○ pro-plant on theme · ◐ mixed / neutral / structural · repeated symbols = multiple distinct claims · d = cell draws on a 7/14 derived-source unique extraction (the ~46 rows the transcript read did not re-find) · column numbers = the 18 macro sentiments (named in summary)

Provenance. Built on canonical ledger state 292 / 9 / 440 / 58 (handoff v3, verified 7/19) under the Fork-D union-dedupe convention. Uniform 7/19 created_at = the session clock crossing midnight UTC, not a rebuild. Regenerated read-only from live DB pivots; no writes.

5/12/26 — Ballast first reading (Item 10A) First reading title only, FILOT under §12-44; passed 7–0, none opposed (Tucker remote). No project description, no FILOT terms, zero public comment — the room did not know what Ballast was. 5/12 therefore contributes no bucketed Ballast sentiment to this matrix. Its real signal is the Smart-Growth / land-use discussion, tracked Park-Road-style in MGW.reference.may12-sentiment.071926.v1 (Dreadnaught-scoped, deliberately not bucketed here).
June 23, 2026 — Second Reading (passed 4–3) · clean transcript
Speaker 1 Air Quality & Health 2 Water & Aquifer 3 Soil, Ag & Aquatic 4 Noise, Light & Traffic 5 Property Value 6 Jobs-to-Investment 7 FILOT / Tax Fairness 8 "It's Really a Data Center" 9 Trust in the Sponsor 10 Process & Transparency 11 Council Diligence vs. Notice 12 Rural Character & Identity 13 Credibility via Roots 14 Whose Citations Are Legit 15 Cohesion / Harassment 16 Economic Development 17 Regulatory Backstop 18 Precedent Shopping
Council · vote in parentheses
Ben Connell (yes)○○○○○○○○
Derek Shoemake (yes)○○○
Sammie Tucker, Jr. (yes)◐
Brant Tomlinson (yes)◐◐◐
Danny Catoe (no)●◐●◐
Jimmy Jones (no)●●
Russell Brazell (no)●
County staff / attorney◐○◐
Public comment & hearing speakers
Denise Gainey Rollings●●●●●●●●
Jim Curley●●●●●●●●●●●
Pam/Karen Gainey †●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
Tommy Gainey●●●●●●●
July 14, 2026 — Third Reading (passed 4–3) · union of full transcript + derived extraction
Speaker 1 Air Quality & Health 2 Water & Aquifer 3 Soil, Ag & Aquatic 4 Noise, Light & Traffic 5 Property Value 6 Jobs-to-Investment 7 FILOT / Tax Fairness 8 "It's Really a Data Center" 9 Trust in the Sponsor 10 Process & Transparency 11 Council Diligence vs. Notice 12 Rural Character & Identity 13 Credibility via Roots 14 Whose Citations Are Legit 15 Cohesion / Harassment 16 Economic Development 17 Regulatory Backstop 18 Precedent Shopping
Council · vote in parentheses
Ben Connell (yes)○○d○d○○○d○○○d○○○○○○
Derek Shoemake (yes)○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○
Sammie Tucker, Jr. (yes)○d○◐◐d◐◐d○○d
Brant Tomlinson (yes)○○○○○○d
Danny Catoe (no)●●●●◐
Jimmy Jones (no)●d●d●●●●●●●d●d●
Russell Brazell (no·remote)●●◐●●◐
Public comment & hearing speakers
Adam Smith●●●●●
Amy McCaskill●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
Austin Thomas Rykbost●●d●
Carla Rykbost●●d●d●d
Cody Mitchell (State Rep.)◐◐◐◐d◐◐d◐◐
Daniel Craig○○○○○
Denise Gainey Rollings●d●d●●d
Donnie Catoe○○d
Emily Poole (SCELP)●d●●d●d●d●d●d
Gina Korn Knight●●●●d●d
Gracie Kane○○◐d○○○d○◐◐d○○
Jim Curley●●●●d●●
John B. Burns◐●◐◐
Linda Kanetzer●●●d
Lori Curley●●●
Lynn Conto●●●●●●●●●
Paul Black (Sierra Club)●d●●d●●●●●●●d●●○d●
Robbie Brown●●●●●d
Russell Horton (landowner)○○d○d○○○○
Ruth Parkins●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
Samantha Melamed (Aiken)●d●d●d
Sarah Williams●●●●●●
Shelly King●d●●d●d●
Tom Webb III●●●●
Vicky Craig◐○◐○○
Zakiya Mickle (NAACP)●●d●●●d●
Composite / attribution-pending keys (non-canonical)
Catoe/Tucker/Connell◐d
Rykbost/general●d
Both meetings combined — named-speaker bucket weights, Fork-D union-dedupe (opposed / pro / mixed)
Macro sentimentOppProMixWeight
1 · Air Quality & Health2441
2 · Water & Aquifer1220
3 · Soil, Ag & Aquatic400
4 · Noise, Light & Traffic500
5 · Property Value1300
6 · Jobs-to-Investment741
7 · FILOT / Tax Fairness1150
8 · "It's Really a Data Center"1724
9 · Trust in the Sponsor1611
10 · Process & Transparency1725
11 · Council Diligence vs. Notice543
12 · Rural Character & Identity1460
13 · Credibility via Roots752
14 · Whose Citations Are Legit1292
15 · Cohesion / Harassment846
16 · Economic Development6192
17 · Regulatory Backstop1095
18 · Precedent Shopping430

Notes. Fork D (Addendum 1, 7/19/26, John-approved): the 65 meeting_2026_07_14 derived atomics are complementary, not duplicates — ~46 have no transcript counterpart (Poole EJ percentiles + FILOT math, Rykbost "bribe"/508-petition, Kane harassment, Jones's son's letter, Connell field trip, Tomlinson Gaston visit, McCaskill COBRA model, Tucker Alabama precedent). They are not superseded. Counts pivot the union deduped on (speaker, valence, macro_id): a claim found in both 7/14 sources counts once; distinct claims still stack. Effect vs v3: 6/23 unchanged, 7/14-heavy buckets read lower (e.g. Air Quality 33→24, Economic Development pro 22→19, Council-Diligence-vs-Notice 9→5). Lower-but-true is the standard. d-flagged 7/14 cells draw on the derived-unique set. † 6/23 question-list speaker announced "Pam Gainey" (clean captions) vs "Karen Gainey" (Otter) — stored under Karen Gainey pending John's adjudication. Non-canonical composite keys (Catoe/Tucker/Connell, Rykbost/general) shown separately, attribution pending. Petition/FB atomics excluded from the named-speaker summary. 5/12 first reading tracked above, not bucketed. Generated read-only from live mrx_bethune; no writes this session. MGW.reference.sentiment-matrix.071926.v4.