<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks Gerry, for looking into this issue. I have another question: why should the Marin (or Solano) board of supes give a good gosh-darn what the Green Party of Santa Clara County thinks? In other words, what earthly use is our endorsement? I could see a point in getting into the Palo Alto thing. But Marin? Maybe they just don't have any north bay Greens who want to do phone banking or leafletting.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 5/19/10, Gerry Gras <I><gerrygras@earthlink.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras@earthlink.net><BR>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] campaign to block privatisation of waste water treatment in Novato<BR>To: "sosfbay discussion group" <sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org><BR>Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 11:43 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR>First, I have a question. Why is the Green Party of<BR>Solano County approaching us on this issue? According<BR>to the map I have looked at, it appears that Novato<BR>is in Marin County.<BR><BR>I see that Novato borders on Solano County, and the<BR>Petaluma River is all or part of the boundary. So<BR>if the wastewater plant were on the river, there<BR>might be good reason for Solano County to be concerned.<BR>But where does the Green Party of Marin County stand<BR>on this? I went to <A href="http://cagreens.org/marin" target=_blank>http://cagreens.org/marin</A>. It<BR>redirects me to<BR><A href="http://network.greenchange.org/groups/maringreens" target=_blank>http://network.greenchange.org/groups/maringreens</A><BR>which says nothing about the Novato issue. Neither<BR>does <A href="http://cagreens.org/marin/issues" target=_blank>http://cagreens.org/marin/issues</A>. (Which does<BR>not
redirect, which leads to a whole new question.)<BR><BR>Second, why are they coming this late? The issue is<BR>on the June 8 ballot, only 20 days away!<BR><BR>Setting all of the above aside. I am generally<BR>concerned about the privatization of water anywhere.<BR>I expect I would support the Solano County and/or<BR>Marin County in efforts to stop the privatization.<BR><BR>I did look at the novatflow.org website, and it<BR>says that both Paris, France and Petaluma have<BR>kicked out Veolia. So what is Novato thinking?<BR><BR>All in all, I am confused at the moment, but would<BR>like to know more. Maybe we could ask the regional<BR>rep for the North Bay? (email address at<BR><A href="http://cagreens.org/cc/" target=_blank>http://cagreens.org/cc/</A>).<BR><BR>Gerry<BR><BR><BR>Jim Doyle wrote:<BR><BR>> I have received a letter from Joe Feller who is the chair of the<BR>> Solano county Green Party and chair of CAL HCN
-<BR>> California Healthy Communities Network.<BR>> <BR>> He is seeking our endorsement of a referendum in Novato that<BR>> wants to prevent the privatisation of a new $90 million<BR>> wastewated treatment plant.<BR>> <BR>> The referendum is to rescind an operations and maintenance agreement<BR>> with a $50 billion French-based water conglomerate operating under<BR>> the name Veolia Water West.<BR>> <BR>> Many more details are available at <A href="http://www.novatoflow.org/" target=_blank>http://www.novatoflow.org/</A><BR>> <A href="http://www.novatoflow.org/evidence.html" target=_blank>http://www.novatoflow.org/evidence.html</A><BR>> <A href="http://www.novatoflow.org/story.html" target=_blank>http://www.novatoflow.org/story.html</A><BR>> <BR>> He is asking for our endorsement and also<BR>> phone banking
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