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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>This is a question I can answer – it would involve continuing to work with me and CELDF in the same partnership. This ordinance will lay a groundwork for the framework, but each ordinance requires its own process. You can (and could have chosen this time too but had strategic reasons not to) instead of doing an ordinance, opt to put a single subject into your existing charter, which makes it stronger and harder to knock down. If you are looking to rewrite your town’s charter, there is a whole other process for doing that, which we can touch on on the Thomas call. I will add to the agenda. Thanks. <BR>
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Best, Shannon <BR>
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On 8/26/14 12:57 PM, "<a href="dougmck@mcn.org">dougmck@mcn.org</a>" <<a href="dougmck@mcn.org">dougmck@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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I would like Thomas to spend a few minutes describing how this Measure can be coordinated with other future measures and eventually a county charter. When I spoke to Ben he described that CELDF has worked on charters as well.<BR>
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If we are passing a community bill of rights, do we have to pass another one, or add to this one later when we want to do other things?<BR>
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Doug <BR>
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</B> "Shannon Biggs" <<a href="shannon@globalexchange.org">shannon@globalexchange.org</a>><BR>
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</B>"Meg Courtney" <<a href="mcourtney1@mcn.org">mcourtney1@mcn.org</a>>, "Community Rights Network" <<a href="crn@lists.mcn.org">crn@lists.mcn.org</a>><BR>
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Re: ADDING TO AGENDA on call with Thomas Linzey Wednesday at 5:30 PMOK – please send me the others by tomorrow, please consolidate and send them to me together if possible. <BR>
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On 8/25/14 5:12 PM, "Meg Courtney" <<a href="mcourtney1@mcn.org">mcourtney1@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hello Shannon et al,<BR>
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This is clarification for the issue Huffman raised that I would like to have on the agenda: It is called <B>UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES</B>. <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13pt'>Does the Community Rights approach open the door to other initiatives where communities can assert THEIR rights which may NOT be "GOOD" and may in fact be used to <B>dismantle</B> "GOOD" existing State and Federal Laws that now protect the environment, etc.? <BR>
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Think: <B>3 Strikes Initiative</B> (funded by the prison industry) and<B> Prop 13 </B>(by Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. cutting taxes and leaving CA with (for one thing) one of the most underfunded school systems in the States)<BR>
These sounded "good" at the time (unless you really studied up) and yet they are really harmful<BR>
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I struck out the Public Trust Doctrine (below) that Huffman mentioned because you have apparently already found that it is not viable for us. <BR>
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I probably can't make the call unless I can get out of a previous commitment. :-( arg. <BR>
Carrie will be my stand-in<BR>
Meg<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Single subject rule of our ordinance (or are folks now clear on this?)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Public Trust doctrine – why it doesn’t actually protect us (regulatory fallacy)
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</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Community rights as supreme over fed and state does not mean “majority rule” <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></UL></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13pt'>ADD: Community Rights, possible unintended consequences?<BR>
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