GO RENEWABLE WACO CAMPAIGN & Sustainability Board
After months of inaction, the SRPAB did meet on August 21, and we had a
presence at the meeting. Sadly, the Board took no new action, only
reviewing an old Annual Report. We spoke forcefully in favor of MONTHLY
meetings of the Board--our climate emergency demands this. Although there
was some support for this idea expressed by one or two members, ultimately the
Board did nothing, But the most discouraging occurrence was the
very obvious attempt of the Board to silence us. It became very clear
they didn't want our input. They cut our comments off at 3 minutes even
though there was NO written Board policy specifying such a time limit. So
after NO discussion of climate change action for 5 months, the Board silenced
us and ended the meeting in about 40 minutes! At this point we have
little hope that this Board will be productive in developing additional
strategies to decarbonize the City. Although we envision us continuing to
attend the meetings, we think it will be more productive to take our proposals
directly to the City Council and cut out this non-receptive
middleman. The Board is viewed as a formality and a group controlled by
the Council and Mr. Stem, not as an independent source for innovative ideas and
direction on the transition to a carbon free Waco.
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