Almost there: support the sustainable water initiative!
Friday, April 10, 2009 at 18:10 The following email is from PLAN ( Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada), and receives my full support.
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Hello all,
First of all, thanks very much for all you did to pass WC #3, the sustainable water initiative! As you probably know, AB 119 was introduced by Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie to codify WC 3 into Nevada Revised Statutes. Last week, it passed Assembly Government Affairs on a party line vote. The builders and the Chamber of Commerce used specious and inflammatory arguments against it (big surprise, I know!) It now heads to the Assembly floor.
Can you please take a moment this weekend to email key members of the Assembly and ask them to support it?
Here’s some points you could make—but please use your own words:
— In November, 2008, 73% of Washoe County voters supported WC#3, sustainable water planning policies (see text of the initiative below);AB 119 would codify this vote into NRS. — AB 119 is supported by the Washoe County Commission, Cities of Reno and Sparks, Truckee Meadows Water Authority, and the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning and Governing Board. — Additionally, the Sierra Club, Nevada Conservation League, PLAN, Public Resource Associates and other groups support AB 119. — We want to to balance water resources with the population. — We also want to make sure we put to restthe tendency to disagree over time about what WC 3 says. AB 119 would make it consistent over time.
Text of WC#3:
“Shall The Truckee Meadows Regional Plan be amended to reflect and to include a policy or policies requiring that local government land use plans be based upon and in balance with identified and sustainable water resources available within Washoe County?
Contact me, or click here, for the names and email addresses of Assembly members: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/legislators/Assembly/alist.cfm
Let’s not stop now when we’re so close to winning! Please write today!
Thanks again, Bob
(please forward this!)
Bob Fulkerson Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada 821 Riverside Drive Reno, Nevada 89503 (775) 348-7557 http://planevada.org/
