WHEREAS Emergency paid sick leave is necessary for public safety, to slow the spread of the virus and help assure a safe workplace for essential workers. No American worker should be forced to choose between working when sick and taking unpaid sick leave: those who are forced to work while sick may infect customers, patients, […]

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WHEREAS critically endangered Coho Salmon struggle to survive in the Russian River basin but only in a few small streams one of which is a fragile watershed referred to as Felta Creek west of Healdsburg, California; and WHEREAS logging can pose threats to the habitat that these rare and important specimen need to migrate, spawn, […]

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WHEREAS, in 2018, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted regulations limiting the abilities of cities and states to regulate small cell sites (e.g., pole attachments) needed for the deployment of 5G, substantially curtailing local governments’ ability to regulate telecommunications infrastructure; and WHEREAS, the FCC regulations limit the type and amount of fees cities and states may charge, set […]

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WHEREAS, recent power outages have levied enormous costs, the threat of grid disruption is not going away, there is an inherent vulnerability in transmitting large volumes of energy over long distances, transmission networks will always be subject to disruption by natural and human (negligence, terrorism) elements, dramatically declining costs for solar and storage have changed […]

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WHEREAS the climate scientists represented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have made clear that what humans do in the next 11-12 years will determine if we and our planet’s unique biodiversity survive, and the County has passed a Resolution acknowledging the Climate Emergency (September 2019); and WHEREAS trees, woodlands, and forest offer […]

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