The Grand Rapids Press 06/21/212 Matt Vande Bunte
“See which Groups will split $25,000 ‘climate protection’
prize for Grand Rapids”
On Arbor Day in April, Mayor George Heartwell named his
inaugural Tree of the Year in Grand Rapids. A city budget approved this week
includes funding to supplement a grant for planting trees in street
right-of-ways.
So perhaps it's no surprise that half of the $25,000 prize
Heartwell got last week from the U.S. Conference of Mayors will be allocated to
Friends of Grand Rapids Parks...for tree planting.
The other half will go the West Michigan Environmental
Action Council, a Grand Rapids non-profit whose executive director appeared in
a video that showcased the city's energy initiatives to U.S. mayors in Orlando
last week. See the video here.
WMEAC will use the money to create a community resiliency
plan aimed at preparing Grand Rapids for climate changes and energy volatility.
Some initiatives related to that broad plan will be introduced to donors at a
fundraiser next week.
Common Sense Review
I find it questionable to award groups thousands of dollars
in grants to forward the climate protect … but isn’t that why we pay the EPA
and the DEQ. So why is more of our tax
dollars going to organization the is encourage a falsehood that the majority of
the population of the earth do not believe.
The US Conference of Mayors awarded Mayor Heartwell 2012 Mayors' Climate Protection Award. Isn’t
it interesting that King George gets an award paid by the taxpayers
based on a false premise.
The lie is steeped in the groups that function in this
city. WMEAC who won half of the $25,000
grant is also going before the Grand Rapids City Commission, June/July to ask for that the citizens pay $3.7 million
in paying to clean storm water runoff…
i.e. creating a “Rain Tax”.
Well..Gee, who paid WMEAC to study the storm water system
and create a proposal… The City of Grand Rapids… Correction the taxpayers of Grand Rapids…
So the taxpayers are paying WMEAC (then giving WMEAC a grant
funded by tax dollars) to create a proposal to instill a new tax on the citizen
so the mayor (King George) can get an award…
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