Legalectric

VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARING

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14 @ 6 p.m.

To participate, it’s a phone-in hearing, so call:

415-655-0001

Access code 2558 753 4771 and password 2022

You can watch on Channel 6.

I’ve looked all over the City site and can’t find a one-stop link for proposed project info so I did call Jay Owens, the City Engineer (651-764-3336) and gave him a piece of my mind, because the City’s way of handling it is to put it in the Council packet which isn’t released until THURSDAY! Here’s a hint, Red Wing, it needs to be HERE, at CONSTRUCTION & PLANNING PROJECTS!

Releasing the Council packet on THURSDAY for a Monday meeting, with Public Hearing info buried in there? EH? A few days notice with info hidden in a Council packet is inadequate, not OK, nope, that is not “transparent,” is too short a timeline for folks, and not encouraging public participation.

Oh well, here’s some info from the January 20 public meeting and emails since, what I do have is above, the map, and the list of assessment charges and itemization of charges below. Jay says he will see if he can get info up on the City site. Here’s a pdf of the project map:

After being postponed for two years, it looks like this spring they will, yes, they really will, rip up Sturtevant Street, from West Avenue to Prairia Street; Pine Street from Sturtevant Street to Putnam Avenue; and Prairia Street from Sturtevant to Putnam. The map above shows the affected properties and assessments.

Here’s a spreadsheet of assessments and cost info used for calculation of the assessments:

Will your service to and from street to house need work? Now’s the time, and the City only takes it to the sidewalk, and to the house is our responsibility. Sewer updates needed to your house? To schedule free check of your sewer contact Steve Thoms 651-385-3680, (651) 380-0470, or steve.thoms@ci.red-wing.mn.

$6,000-plus is a bundle of cash. We can pay it when assessed (won’t be assessed until the project is complete), or we can pay it on installments added to our property taxes — the rate is something like 4 or 4.5% (I can’t find my notes on that — we were told at the Public Meeting in January that the rate was 7%, usurious in my mind, so I called about that, and found that it’s not.). If questions about the installment plan, call Marshall Hallock, 651-385-3602.

Next step, the public hearing on February 14, 2022 @ 6 p.m.

Contact Pres. Biden to live up to his promise to bring refugee ceiling back up, he’d promised 125,000, but only brought it up to 62,500, and that was after LOUD outrage when he said he was going to leave it at the slashed level of the previous administration!! Campaign promise – 125,000. Just do it. Get with it, Biden: CLICK HERE FOR CONTACT WHITE HOUSE PAGE

In today’s Federal Register documents for Public Inspection, this:

That’s a drop in the bucket as far as money goes. And how about raising the limit of refugees that was slashed during the prior administration:

And for 2022?

In Another Reversal, Biden Raises Limit on Number of Refugees Allowed Into the U.S.

That campaign pledge?

That increase to 62,500 is only half way there to 125,000. And what about letting people in? Raising the ceiling does nothing if the U.S. is not letting people in.

And through recent history, here are the numbers, the ceiling and admissions:

Here’s from 2009:

And since 1980:

Here’s a link to National Archive documents regarding the UNSUCCESSFUL attempt to claim Executive Privilege (this isn’t the bunch of documents that were released to the Committee):

Records Related to the Request for Presidential Records by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

It’s out, Xcel Energy’s post-construction wind noise monitoring report, and as predicted, as they were WARNED HOW MANY TIMES, it’s over the permitted noise levels. Here’s the poop:

And here’s the important part:

And validation that what we were warning them about, their bogus use of 0.5 ground factor, is skewing the modeling so that it understates the noise:

And what does the site permit say:

Develop a plan? Yes, and here’s the plan:

PULL THOSE OFFENDING TURBINES OUT OF THE GROUND!

The plan? Xcel must do noise monitoring for each of those turbines not covered by these studies to demonstrate it is complying with the noise limits, and if not:

PULL THOSE OFFENDING TURBINES OUT OF THE GROUND!

I’m fed up with the excuses and pandering to first Invenergy, and then Xcel Energy. Ever since the ALJ’s initial recommendation, recommending that the permit be DENIED because they had not demonstrated they could comply with the noise standards…

WE WON!!! ALJ Recommends Freeborn Permit be DENIED, or… May 14th, 2018

… and here we are, years later… still at it, the same old thing, they’re TOO NOISY!

FREEBORN WIND IS TOO NOISY! How many times, how many ways, did we tell you, warn you, provide you with clear documentation… well, DOH! FREEBORN WIND IS TOO NOISY!

This is not rocket science, it’s just basic sound, and here’s the crux:

Commissioners, you’ve been putting people off for too long. People have been living with unreasonable and unrelenting noise, so that’s the plan:

PULL THOSE OFFENDING TURBINES OUT OF THE GROUND!

Dept. of Commerce – EERA announces release of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Xcel’s proposal to change storage casks (to what? Who knows, Xcel ain’t sayin’), and two meetings for comment.

In person meeting? MASK UP!!!

And here’s the SEIS:

Here’s the poop on comments:

Get to work, the SEIS is 132 pages, but in format-lite!

FYI, Xcel’s “plan” is linked here:

Change in Prairie Island nuclear casks?