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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(please forward to sympathetic lists/people, Graham
can you put the announcement below on the Green party website?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE ON
WED 7TH SEPTEMBER</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Full Council (meeting in Town Hall) will receive
presentations by:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>George Munson, Regional Climate Change Co-ordinator
at the Yorkshire and Humber Govt Office on the implications of Climate Change
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andy Nolan, Head of Environmental Strategy on the
Council's strategy for action.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There will then be an opportunity of Cllrs to ask
questions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a slot for "public questions and
communications" immediately before this (at 2pm), so although the public can't
ask questions during the "debate" anything asked from the gallery would be hard
to ignore in the session which followed. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So ... I'm putting out an appeal for </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. People to attend Full Council on that day. Just
turn up at about 1.50pm and tell the ushers you want to ask a question
from the gallery - you will be shown upstairs and called to speak by the Mayor
after any petitioners have spoken (which can take a while!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. AND/OR feed any questions to me and I will try
to put them - I only get one slot for questions and possibly a second one for
comments (actually comes to much the same thing in politics, I've noticed!). It
would be very helpful for have your ideas. Should I focus on transport,
industry, energy saving in housing, localising the economy, the incinerator, the
airport(s)? So much room for improvement I'm in danger of being
overwhelmed!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need your ideas and your support. I want to be as
well informed as possible and to represent you, the green-thinking,
no-blood-for-oil community. I also want to show SCC, especially Labour, that the
people of Sheffield regard climate change as a really important issue and that
we are GLAD they have timetabled this session.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Notes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Y&H Region produced a Climate Change
Action Plan in Feb/March of this year ... you could find it on the web: the
thing the Green Party picked out of it was the recommendation to appoint a
cabinet level "champion" for climate change. This hasn't quite happened - though
they did create a cabinet member for "environment and transport"
(Terry Fox).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Andy Nolan has moved from a similar role at
Sheffield Uni - only taken up post a few months ago.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cllr Jillian Creasy, Central ward, Sheffield Green
Party</FONT></DIV>
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