For a second consecutive week, the Greene County Board of Supervisors voted against a noise reduction ordinance.

The Supervisors voted 3-2 on Monday to deny the ordinance that would have prohibited anyone from using an engine brake unnecessarily between the hours of 10pm and 6am.  Four of the five Supervisors voted the same way they did last week, with John Muir and Guy Richardson voting in favor and Tom Contner and Mick Burkett voting against.  Supervisor Dawn Rudolph was the deciding vote, since she missed last week’s meeting, and ultimately voted against it.  She explains why she voted no.

“I feel that there wasn’t the support county wide for that (ordinance).  When it comes down to it, I feel like it’s pretty isolated.  It’s not a county wide problem, and if we’re going to do an ordinance, I feel like it should be county wide.”

Muir echoes Rudolph’s comments and adds he respects how the vote came out.

“There are issues and trying to address them in other ways and things (and) an ordinance would have been another tool to address the issues.  It’s a big deal to pass an ordinance (or) pass a law.  Everybody needs to be comfortable with it and three of us (on the Board) weren’t.”

With the ordinance failing twice for a first reading, unless there’s more county wide support, the Supervisors won’t discuss it again.