Aerial Spraying Alert: Council Meeting Tonight/Vector Control Meeting 8/11

Sacramentans,

The Sacramento Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District started spraying Sacramento County north of the American River last night. The district will make a presentation to the Sacramento City Council at their 7 pm meeting tonight. The public has not yet had an adequate opportunity to be heard on this public health emergency!

Please attend and express your opposition to the aerial spraying for adult mosquitoes! The meeting will be at City Hall – 915 I Street, First Floor, Council Chambers.

Then, the Mosquito Abatement District is having another public meeting on Thursday, August 11th, at 6:30 pm in the County Board Chambers of the County Administration building at 7th and H Streets. Please attend the meeting - and spread the word to everybody you know!

If you have questions, call Kim Glazzard at (916) 455-8415.

Here’s other actions you can participate in. I urge everybody to get the word out about the opposition to the spraying.

1. Call your County Supervisor and City Council person and tell them to stop the aerial spraying of pyrethrum. This chemical kills mosquitoes and ALL other insects, warnings for it include NOT to put
in on human skin, and it can cause pulmonary problems. There are
alternatives to spraying the entire county, including: advising risk groups
like the elderly to take precautions to avoid mosquitoes; educating the
medical community & public about signs and symptoms of West Nile Virus;
increasing mosquito predators, etc. There are a number of measures people
can take to avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes and if they do get bitten,
they need to know what are the signs and symptoms of complications of West
Nile virus and when to get themselves to a medical facility.

Contact information for the Sacramento City Council:
http://www.cityofsacramento.org/council/

Mayor, Heather Fargo 916-808-5300 hfargo [at] cityofsacramento.org;
staff: sobrien [at] cityofsacramento.org; vjones [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 1, Ray Tretheway rtretheway [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 2, Sandy Sheedy ssheedy [at] cityofsacramramento.org;
District 3, Steve Cohn scohn [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 4, Robert King Fong rkfong [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 5, Lauren Hammond lhammond [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 6, Kevin McCarty kmccarty [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 7, Robbie Waters rwaters [at] cityofsacramento.org;
District 8, Bonnie Pannell bpannell [at] cityofsacramento.org;

Contact information for the County Board of Supervisors is at: http://www.bos.saccounty.net/

The phone numbers and email addresses for the Board of Supervisors are:
District 1: Roger Dickinson: (916) 874-5485 dickinsonr [at] saccounty.net
District 2: Illa Collin: 874-5481 collini [at] saccounty.net
District 3: Muriel Johnson 874-5471 johnsonmu [at] saccounty.net
District 4: Roger Niello 874-5491 niellor [at] saccounty.net
District 5: Don Nottoli: 874-5465 nottolid [at] saccounty.net

2. Sign An On-line Petition Opposing the Spraying (from Eve Bowers)

We need some help getting the word out. Please sign this petition and spread it far and wide.
There is no science to support this method. The scare tactics are manipulative, deceitful, and dangerous.

Petitioning. We have an online petition - but we could also use people petitioning their neighborhoods and groceries, etc. Here's the online petition. A copy of the paper petition is attached. http://www.petitiononline.com/Mosquito/petition.html

We'd like to have people join our discussion group - we have a lot of information online about why the spraying is a bad idea and how to help stop it. It's http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fighttheflight/

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I believe that spraying is just too risky for the small, short-term benefit it may have.

Eve Bowers
916 498-9065