I don’t know how many people are aware of our city’s efforts to get “Green”. For years I tried to cover Chico’s Sustainability Task Force, formed originally by then-Mayor and current city council member Ann Schwab. When current chair Mark Stemen took over a few years ago, the committee went completely underground, ad hoc, no council members, no staffers to take notes – like former city staffer Mary Fitch once said, these ad hoc committees are just “an end-run around the Brown Act”.
https://chicotaxpayers.com/?s=sustainability+task+force&submit=Search
A committee member is tasked to take “notes”, which appear every few months on an agenda, after they’ve been abridged and approved by the committee. Read those here:
http://www.chico.ca.us/government/minutes_agendas/sustainability_task_force.asp
The STF gave us the bag ban. They also passed an ordinance by which we have to put new toilets, new shower heads, new light bulbs and do up to $800 worth of insulation and other weatherization in our house before we can sell it. Read through those agendas and “notes”, see what other short hairs they are grasping for. But I still had to laugh at this video Dude sent me:
Recently, local developers were told they could pay lower fees for building smaller houses in new urban type neighborhoods.
http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20171025/NEWS/171029818
What does the average family want? I don’t know, because the average family was neither invited to nor represented at the meeting, it was just a bunch of developers and suits. Oh yeah, and Ken Fleming, who likes to talk philosophy. Ken’s a nice guy, but he lives on some planet where everybody is on Valium.
They think the smaller houses will get us out of our cars, that’s so funny. Read the following story and don’t forget to watch the video – note, the woman is driving a Prius – didn’t she see the Audi commercial?
Go on to her campaign speech below – she’s an urban planner!
The Sustainability Task Force also gave us our trash deal, are you happy with that? Got your postcard, telling you all the things you can be fined for? Not so funny now, is it?
Thanks Dude, for sending those videos, and reminding us to keep an eye on the Sustainability Task Force.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
Here is a must watch regarding “sustainable development.”
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-322-what-is-sustainable-development/
thanks Bob, good to hear from you.
Bureaucratic regulation circumventing the legislative process. Did we go to sleep and wake up in the Soviet Union? Or is it the European Commission, where the President is elected or selected by The Parliament with secret votes. I can only wonder what our unelected bureaucrats are planning next for their Agenda 21 roll out? But one thing is for sure, it’s going to cost the taxpayers $$$. Thanks for the Post, The Dude Abides.
thank you Dude!