[Trees-executive] Tuesday night

[Carl H. Malmgren, II]

Thanks Jim for suggesting topics.

As you can see if you read the article I went on to point out that we 
still had concerns including one about the grievance procedure.

Additionally I hope everyone realizes that the purpose of 1776 was 
not to take the place of a vegetation tariff, but rather to prevent 
IP  legislatively fro having their Vegetation Tariff override local 
control.  Thus 1776 clarifies that this cannot occur.

HB 1776 will work in conjunction with any vegetation Tariff, and not 
preclude it.

I think that we need to ask the legal committee to go over 1776 and 
to give us their opinion of it.  That should also be brought up at 
the Ex Com meeting tomorrow night.

I cannot make Normal this Thursday to bee at the ceremonies for Earth 
Day when the EAC Gives IPCUTSOT the award.  I have asked Gretchen if 
she, Ed and Mary can go.

Carl

>ear ExCommers,
>
>I recommend spending time on two items of importance at the ExCom meeting
>Tuesday night. This is 7:30 PM at 166 Grainger Library.
>
>First, as we know, the 1776 Bill passed the State House on April 6th.
>However, as of yesterday there has not been a Senate sponsor of the bill.
>Since Sen. Stanley Weaver is our Senator, it seems that the obvious next
>step would be for some of us to approach him about being the primary
>sponsor.
>
>According to the News-Gazette's Sunday paper (see:
>http://newsgazette.com/ngsearch/story.cfm?number=9192),
>
>"Illinois Power Customers United to Save Our Trees supports the House
>bill, said group spokesman Carl Malmgren."
>
>But do we really support this bill? Carl says he does with certain
>qualifications, and these could be sorted out in the Senate version of
>the bill. If those who are able could study the bill, that would make
>for more intelligent discourse tomorrow night. We have a link to it on
>our web page, or you can go to it directly at
>http://www.legis.state.il.us/scripts/imstran.exe?LIBSINCWHB1776.
>
>The second thing that needs to be dealt with is the Arbor Day meeting on
>April 28. We don't have a real ding-dong speaker lined up, so it seems like
>the current plan is some kind of continuous entertainment. Who supplies the
>entertainment? Guess who? -- US! There needs to be at least 10 people
>putting in nontrivial time on this project. So far what we are thinking
>about is John McMahon's band and maybe a skit or two related to trees that
>talented members of our group would put on. Kyra is looking into
>amplification. Our time slot is 2-5 PM on the 28th, which is a Saturday,
>and it's right after a Roger Ebert "overlooked" family movie happening at
>the Virginia Theatre nearby WestSide Park, so we hope to corral some of
>those people. Hopefully, Outreach will be able to make some progress on
>this tonight. Can we pull it off? Does it have a payoff that merits the
>effort? How many people can we attract? That's what we need to discuss.
>
>Some other smaller things I can think of are:
>
>1) Earth Day table on Sunday, April 22.
>
>2) Shall we schedule ExCom and General Meetings for the rest of the Spring?
>
>3) Shall we shut down for the summer to the extent of not having regular
>   meetings?
>
>Jim
>
>PS I won't be able to make the meeting until near the end because of a
>   prior commitment.
>
>
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