Event: Marin United Taxpayers Association Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Meeting Time: The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 12 noon at the latest.
Location: Tamalpais Bank Community Room, 575 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Greenbrae, CA.
Tamalpais Bank is located just West of the Bon Air Shopping Center.
Agenda:
Presentation Background
Marin Clean Energy is an effort by the Marin Energy Authority to bring "clean green energy" (e.g., wind, solar) to Marin County residents. MCE will be independent of similar Pacific Gas & Electric services to Marin. Renewable resources will be from sites that may or may not be located here in Marin.
MCE is being promoted by Marin County politicians, but has not been uniformly accepted by all Marin County communities. The Marin County Grand Jury in its recent report, (see: "Pull the Plug" -- 23 pages), has recomended that MCE be halted . The Marin Independent Journal has also cautioned that the County should proceed slowly on this effort. At this point there is no plan for a public vote to approve or disapprove the project, even though there have been many calls for it. The June election's ballot Proposition 16 will address the need to put initiatives such as Marin Clean Energy to a vote. MCE is being rushed into implementation so it will not be able to be first voted on, even if Proposition 16 is passed. MUTA is very concerned about this rushed approval with many questions remaining and without any public vote.
Ms. Anthony will bring us up to date on the realities of bringing "clean green energy" to Marin county. She is also familiar with programs under way elsewhere and how they are working for their constituencies.
About the Speaker
Ms. Anthony is currently a renewable energy consultant with Californians for Renewable Energy. She has an extensive backbround in library research at Harvard, New York Public Library, University of Virginia and UCLA. She has been an environmental activist on issues with Heal the Bay, Sierra Club, Audubon Society, and many other organizations. She holds degrees from Sweet Briar College, Brown University and the Simmons School of Library Science. She has authored articles nationally as well as locally in the Marin I/J Marin Voice column.
Following Ms. Anthony's presentation, the meeting will be open for questions about MUTA that you may have, as well as time to talk with other attendees. Light refreshments will be available at the meeting. There is no cost to attend, but donations to support MUTA will be gratefully accepted.