seems to be contagious.

And so is the pollution monitoring devise- on purpose.

I am fed up too, Norm.   Wanna go out and "Catania" some people with me?  I heard it is a great stress reliever.

They don't even have representatives from each County in NOACA - there are pollution monitors and polluted CITIZENS in Sheffield Lake (usually works), Medina (rarely works), Cleveland (should be 2 - is only one - neither ever really seem to work), Akron, Canton, Youngstown (usually works), Warren (only works for 24 hour?!?!) and Painesville (never works).

How many counties is that? Greater Cleveland.

Further, the facilitator falsely claimed this was a "citizen" committee yet it was not organized with citizen input, we were not welcome at the meeting, and we were not allowed to offer input there. I asked the facilitator to provide a list of citizens involved in this... last I heard from her... that was before their meeting, which I protested IN ADVANCE, to the office of the Senator.

Disrupt IT

this dialogue would be funny, if it wasnt' so sad...and, we're the ones labelled crazy...BTW, Jerleen wrote up more great pieces in this month's Plain Press on Erich Hopper and the shit treatment he's been getting via TWDc etc. It should be available on line soon http://www.plainpress.org.

Dear Norm,

       I attended this meeting after you sent me all of those emails. I recognize your concerns....but what I gained from the leadership at the end of the meeting was that they were actively attempting to brainstorm, collaborate and consider names of folks who would be community liaisons, collaborators, and who could get the word out to the families/people of Northeast Ohio about all of your concerns.

1) They are looking for any citizens or orgazational members who are interested in joining the team to disseminate their info and results to help increase Clean Air activities and to keep the public informed.

2) I made several recommenations to City of Cleveland EPA rep & group, including: 

A) CMSD, FACE office: Dr Dorothy Sterling and Tammy Stembridge who can disseminate to Family Liaisons at all schools and further distro to students/families daily via the School Parent Organizational leadership. I advised that the best day of the year would be to set up tables at EVERY CMSD OPEN HOUSE in the Fall distibuting pertinent educational info about their resources/activities/campaign.

B) Cleveland City Council/Council reps could distribute to citizens in their public distibutions/media newsletters.

C) Community Development Corporations/NPI would be a great resource for getting word out to families, specically through their publications.

D) Real Neo media publications.

E) Social Media (Facebook/Myspace/etc.) 

F) Block Club leadership involvement with checklists.

3) They made recommendations about inviting people from vaarious leaderships: 

A) Mayors/City Councils etc

B) Railroad reps

C) Major  organizational reps...

D) Citizen involvement

Lots more to share....but they were quite receptive to public involvement. They invite anyone with a concern/consideration to work towards improving out Clean Air quality to visi them and participate.

TTYS.

Norm, I love your vigor, tenacity, and absolute dedication to conquering this bad seed issue...and all of them.

However, now that all of these practices have been disrupted by valiant efforts such as yours, it's time that we integrate and embark on overcoming the historical practices that were corrupt. It's not going to happen over night. However, if we all collectively unite, bring the voices to the forums, and keep on working at promoting transparent accountability...I believe that we can work to reform the industry issues to degrees of satisfaction in a shorter amount of time. 

I recognize your absolute frustration. I am still learning a ton about various issues on this subject. Yet, I felt extremely happy when they opened the doors and invited much more public participation in the process. The upcoming meeting is a valiant opportunity for you to direct leadership into that forum so that the word can spread like wildfire about what actions and efforts are being taken to begin the reparation process.... Yet, educating the public is a great start and you got me there and now we need to get many more folks there...so that the educational process of reform can begin.

I know that your absolute vested heartiness to this entire issue has brought about changes that you are yet to feel. No system is perfect. Yet, it's our goal to promote the top ethical considerations possible in the interim of it. Thank you again for leading me to this invaluable learning curve. I hope that we can collectively ignite a fire of reform and empowerment that inspires all citizens to heed the need for change.

May God Bless! 

Keep up the great work!