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There are three critical '� ingredients to democratic renewa/ and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing end e/ectoral politics. ` Paul Wellstone v , � a� � ,: ', i u �,� i r'; , �, ; :� �a� My choice is to ta�ke a stancJ and effect change outsrde gove'rnment at '-this moment in time... '' because we need hard'- working, average, Amerr- , cans fighfing for what's ''right! And I wiU support you because we need . you and you can effecf change. And I can too on the outside, Sarah Palin announcing her + ,, resignation as Alaska's Governor on )uly 10, 2009. � ,, - �� -�� _.. _ t•-� �' Plant Stalied At City Council Last Year: Ten Acorn Saints neighbors attended the June 15th Council meeting scheduled to resume action on the permit, having been notified of the proposed asphalt plant that weekend by the first edition of this newsletter which was hand-delivered in their neighborhood, less than a thousand feet from the proposed plant. That council meeting, however, came to a temporary halt when Mayor Klausing announced that a state agency had received a citizens' petition that very day and the City had been subsequentiy notified that it was prohibited from pro- ceeding with any action on this project until a state review process conducted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) was completed. The neighbors present, however, took advantage of the meeting to tell the Council, that they had expected that the Council would do what is best for the communiry, and were therefore disappointed and surprised that no notice was given residents living downwind of the asphalt plant. State Review Concluding: The Minnesota Pollution Control's environ- mental review has been a two-part process: development of an Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) prepared by the developer and reviewed by the MPCA, and consideration of issuing an air permit to Bituminous Roadways for the plant's operation. The PCA `s role is nearing an end and it will hold a public information meeting on this Thursday, July 29, beginning at 6:30pm at Rose- ville City Hall. (See page 3 following for MPCA's Press Release .) It appears the MPCA is inclined to issue the air emission permit. The official publiC notice begins NOTICEISHEREBYGIVEN, thattheCommissioneroftheMinnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) proposes to issue Ai�• Emission Permit No. 12300758-001, to BituminousRoadwqvsinc. (For more info see web site www.pca.state.mn and search "Roseville Asphalt Plant". City Review Now To Resume: Now over a year later the role of residents and City Fathers and Mothers in reviewing this process will resume. Eventually, probably some time this fall, if the required MPCA permits are obtained the City Council wilf need to grant zoning approval for this asphalt plant. Over a year ago the Council promised it would give notice to the neighbors living close to the plant for a public hearing on this issue. SWARM will also notify its mailing list for that public hearing. Project Now Upscaled: The air permit the MPCA is currently considering is for a hot asphalt plant rather than the warm asphalt-producing plant originally proposed over a year ago. The developer, Bituminous Roadways, repeatedly and at length told the City Council and the citizens' advisory commission Public Works, Environment, and Transportation, that their project would use a less volatile and therefore less fume-producing technique of warm asphalt produc- tion. The proposed MPCA permit, however, is now for a hot asphalt facility. 2