Update, information, report:

I went to two meetings this week. On Monday night I went to the Morgantown Cools City Committee meeting. At their meeting they strategized for their up and coming Tuesday night meeting with the City Council. They were number 5 on the list of groups that were to present their case. I was impressed at how determined and clear sighted every member of the committee was to their cause. They planned for who would speak at the City Council meeting and what each member would talk about.

Last night, Tuesday, the City Council met and the Cool City Committee was in attendance, along with support people, including myself. When their turn came up, #5, the City Council officials took the floor! They were replete with praise for the Sierra Club and the Clean Air Coalition. They thanked these groups officially for bringing the Cools Cities agenda to them. They reviewed the twelve point Kyoto Protocol listed by the U.S. Mayors Climate Pretection Agreement ( provided by the Sierra Club) and talked about steps they have already taken, and will continue to take, in order to address these critical actions.

I wasn't sure if this sounded as good to everyone else as it sounded to me until Jim Kotcon stood up, turned around to all of us and said, "We won!!!" We were all aglow with joy.

Of course Jim Kotcon and Joshua Rutkowski went immediately to the hallway and started to plan the next move, but even Jim took a few minutes to just be happy.

So, someone from the committee can add details to this note, my intention was to sing your praises. Please pass this note on to Cool City Committee members who are not on the Energy Committee and thereby in my address book.

Good work. Thank you

Barbara Fallon, Sierra Club's Energy Committee

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