On the recordMay 19, 2014
What public? Are you going to hear from the Sierra Club? You are going to hear from Save the Earth Club?
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Young questions the legitimacy of public input from outside organizations regarding local issues.
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Mr. Young's bill continues that management style while providing for more flexibility and transparency in the law.
Mr. Chairman, thank you, and I hope you understand it is awfully early in the morning for the Mayor and myself. You guys have a nice, leisure morning. We have to be up at 4 a.m. to have this hearing.
But the big thing is, it doesn't do any good to get on the board or the council if they don't have the authority.
We have learned firsthand that resource development and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive goals.