From: Celine Laubsch
To: Neysa Hinton; [email protected]; Dante Del Prete; Lawrence McLaughlin; City Council; Sarah Glade Gurney; [email protected]; Diana Rich; Mary Gourley
Subject: Save our water meters- no smart meters agenda #15 on feb 15 Date: Friday, February 11, 2022 9:43:41 PM
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Dear Mayor Patrick Slayter, Sebastopol city council members and staff, I am writing in support of an OPT-IN policy on behalf of myself and my family who are homeowners and residents of Sebastopol. A pay to opt-out policy is punitive, discriminatory, and ignores Sebastopol’s General Plan that calls for community wide opt out of smart meters: "Action CHW 4h: Support efforts to approach and encourage the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to allow the City to opt out of public utility wireless data transmission systems (such as smart meters)."
Sebastopol banned smart meters in 2013, for “matters of public health, safety and consumer protection…”
Sebastopol’s Telecommunications Ordinance 1123 requires public notice and a planning commission review.
Sebastopol’s General Plan Community Health and Wellness Goals are to minimize unsafe EMF’s.
the Zero Waste Sonoma purchasing policy calls for purchasing products that minimize environmental impacts, toxins, pollution and hazards to worker and community safety, as well as to purchase durable and long lasting products. (If a smart water meter battery fails, the whole unit has to be replaced.) Peer reviewed published studies show EMF radiation threatens nature and causes a wide range of health impacts: “Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans.” https://www.emfscientist.org/ Adding 3000 smart water meters will increase EMF radiation in Sebastopol and will harm the EMF aware and injured community. They will harm our quality of life, disturb our sense of safety and peace and create a nuisance throughout our city.
Please keep the current water meters, with an OPT-IN to a non-transmitting digital meter for people who want more detailed water usage data.
Thank you,
Celine and Kevin Makaryk, Angelina Laubsch and family