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Title:	LBA Moth Spray Hearing at SCC Board of Supervisors
START DATE:	Tuesday October 16
TIME:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location Details:
5th floor of the County Bldg. (corner of Water & Ocean). Santa Cruz
Event Type:	Meeting
A public hearing by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to consider the issue of aerial spraying of a synthetic pheromone product (untested on humans) to combat the light brown apple moth will take place on Tuesday - Oct. 16 - 7pm @ the Supervisors' Chambers 5th floor of the County Bldg. (corner of Water & Ocean). There will be representatives from the California Department of Agriculture who will explain the proposed program, followed by hopefully lots of testimony from lots of concerned citizens. A similar public hearing happened on Tuesday, Oct. 9 @ the Santa Cruz City Council mtg., after which the city council voted 4 (Porter, Madrigal, Rotkin, Reilly) to 3 (Coonerty, Mathews, Robinson) to mount or join a lawsuit to stop the spraying at least for now till more information can be gathered. Let's show up and convince the Supervisors to join the city in this lawsuit. Phone calls, letters, and emails before Tuesday's hearing are also encouraged. More information about this issue can be found at http://1hope.org. This is the website of HOPE (Help Our Peninsula's Environment), the folks that have mounted the lawsuit to stop, somewhat belatedly, the spraying in Monterey County. After the first spraying was done in Monterey in September, this group received over 100 affidavits from citizens claiming to have had adverse reactions to the spray. The Supervisors can be phoned @ 831-454-2200 and emailed @: jan.beautz [at] co.santa-cruz.ca.us tony.campos [at] co.santa-cruz.ca.us neal.coonerty [at] co.santa-cruz.ca.us ellen.pirie [at] co.santa-cruz.ca.us mark.stone [at] co.santa-cruz.ca.us Added To The Calendar On Friday Oct 12th, 2007 11:21 AM

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Public hearings/meetings where you can talk about aerial BIOCHEMICAL Pesticide spraying

by from lbamspray.info

Friday Oct 12th, 2007 12:33 PM

OCTOBER 17th, 6 p.m.Wednesdays. Scotts Valley City Council Meeting. 1 Civic Center Drive, Scotts Valley. Ph 440-5600. Open for start at 6pm so do not be late! Request they join with Santa Cruz City Council in stopping LBAM biochemical pesticide aerial spraying.

OCTOBER 25, 7:00pm Capitola City Council Meeting, Council Chambers-420 Capitola Ave. Capitola, CA 95010 Ph: 831.475-7300 • Open for public comments. Request they join with Santa Cruz City Council in stopping LBAM biochemical pesticide aerial spraying.

October 23, 6:30pm Watsonville City Council Meeting 215 Union St # 2, Watsonville - (831) 768-3008.3min expression time. Open for public comments start at 6:30pm so do not be late! Request they join with Santa Cruz City Council in stopping LBAM biochemical pesticide aerial spraying.

http://lbamspray.info

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This is an historic moment

by John Thielking

( pagesincolor [at] aol.com ) Friday Oct 12th, 2007 4:26 PM

For the first time in my recent memory, Mike Rotkin votes on the right side of the law/principles on an important political issue that is located within 100 miles of Santa Cruz. Yay! :>) Way to go Mike!

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rainy

by lp

Friday Oct 12th, 2007 6:15 PM

I bet it might still be a dry winter, but the series of rainstorms in October might interrupt this spraying. By the time we get to November, they might not be breeding anyway, so perhaps they will pick this up in spring again?

The SF Chronicle has an entomology columnist who is very much against household and landscape pesticides etc. I somehow remember him advocating pheromones as an alternative approach, but the key issue here is the base compound that they are distributing this pheromone within. Apparently the company wont' release the full formula. Maybe it would be good to bring in a professional entomologist who isn't working for industry, such as an academic. I want to know how experimental this approach is.

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