Mark, et al: >As a Sierra Club member of the Political Committee and also a volunteer with >the Clean Air committee for nearly five years now, I take strong exception >to this statement from Laura Huseby, who, as far as I know, has not been ?involved in any of our committees' work.
For the record, I have been a volunteer for the Sierra Club Water Committee for the past three years. I would love to participate in the next Sierra Club Political Committee. Point #1, RT wasn't even there when the resolution for the vapor recovery was written. And I believe your trying to claim all the credit for someone who wasn't even there for the work. SOURCE: Ordinance 2001-Or-160, proposed by CM Biernat, amended Title 13, Chapter 287.110, required that all gas stations established after 1/1/02 must install and use a Stage I vapor recovery system. This proposed ordinance passed unanimously on December 28, 2001, by City Council and was approved on December 31, 2001, by Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. Point #2, in response to the Riverside Coal Plant conversion, there was no opposition. If a state needs to increase electric generation to meet increasing demands, it must reduce existing emissions to compensate for it. The Riverside Coal Plant conversion was supported by Xcel Energy, MPCA, and various environmental organizations, besides the Mayor.... SOURCE: MN Stat 216B.1692, required submission of the Metropolitan Emissions Reduction Proposal (MERP). The MERP was submitted July 26, 2002, and was reviewed by MPCA, December 30, 2002. Point #3, I was told that the endorsement meeting was a closed door session of the Political Committee and that a volunteer/member was not allowed to 'sit in' the meeting or I would have. Thank you for the clarification, I am sure Bill and others would like to know how to participate given the endorsements this year. I would hate to see the Sierra Club lose contributions based on misleading information provided by politicians who claim credit, when, in reality it is the vision and leadership of hard working council members and city employees. Council members that current administration would like to see go part-time. City employees that current administration holds to a 2% wage cap. >To dismiss the many long hours that this group spent reviewing and >discussing candidates as having just been "bamboozled" is, quite frankly, >highly insulting. There was no insult intended to the process, nor the Sierra Club, only the representation of misleading information provided to them to sway a decision. You need only to review the Labor Union endorsements and then the voting record of council members who voted out the electrical inspectors to see another example of swaying a decision by the current administration. Laura Huseby Field-Regina REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules<http://www.e-democracy.org/rules>. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html<http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html> For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract<http://e-democracy.org/mninteract> ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls<http://e-democracy.org/mpls> REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
