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Conservation Corner
by Heath Wakelee |
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Last month we introduced the voluntary 4 hours per year for conservation issues concept and I promised information about how to contact some of your Federal, State, County, and City representatives. If you do not have access to the Internet, please provide me with your street address and I will send you information about your representatives.
To contact President Bush, (on the Internet) go to www.whitehouse.gov. The President must contend with thousands of E-mail communications every day and sending an E-mail to any representative is the least effective way of getting your opinion considered. The best way is via a short mailed letter that is individually written.
To identify your Federal representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives go to www.senate.gov or www.house.gov then input your zip code and your representatives contact information is provided.
For your State representatives in the House or Assembly, simply go to www.legislature.ca.gov and after putting in your zip code or mailing address contact information for both your State Senator and California State Assembly member is provided.
Determining your County Board of Supervisors representative is similar for all three of our local counties. For Placer County, go to www.placer.ca.gov, select Board of Supervisors then Supervisorial Districts and finally look for your location on the Districts map. For Sacramento County go to www.saccounty.net and then to Board of Supervisors followed by District Boundaries where again a map showing Supervisor districts is available. To locate your County representative in El Dorado County, go to www.co.eldorado.ca.us, select Board of Supervisors and then select the District map to identify your County Board of Supervisors representative. For other counties, follow the “Google” search directions mentioned in the next paragraph.
Obtaining web site information about your city is relatively easy using a “Google” search. Go to www.google.com, and type “City of (your city name) California” in the search field. I live in Rocklin so in the search field I put in is “City of Rocklin California” to obtain the Internet address of www.ci.rocklin.ca.us – which, to me, is not very intuitive. If you live in Sacramento your address is www.cityofsacramento.org which is a little more logical and I wish that all cities used the same Internet home address format. If you live in the unincorporated Granite Bay, or another unincorporated area, you don’t have a City government to contact. Your first level of contact is your representative on the County Board of Supervisors. Unincorporated Granite Bay has a Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) that is appointed and serves in an advisory capacity to Supervisor Ted Gaines.
Please get involved in legislative affairs. J Gee, can I say that? One communication to any of your representative counts for two hours towards your voluntary four hours per year of conservation involvement.
Heath Wakelee VP Conservation 916 870 5253 |
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