Arvada Sustainability Coordinator - A Drunk?

“Arvada has always been mindful of conserving resources as a result of its agricultural history and this Plan will enhance and further those efforts,” said Jessica Prosser, sustainability coordinator for the City of Arvada.


Below are photos of Mrs. Prosser, formerly Ms. Jessica Schluederberg:

Shelly's Stupid Sustainability

(Arvada, CO) – Arvada City Council approved the Sustain Arvada Plan on February 6, 2012.  Sustain Arvada is a way of destroying Arvada’s rich heritage and spending more of our resources on unfeasable economic projects, environmentalism and community communism today and into the future. 

In Arvada, as in many places, both present and future generations will suffer from more government control over every aspect of our lives.  Resources will be in greater demand as governments restrict access to them under the pretext of impacts to our air quality, atmosphere, and water resources from past and current practices. This doomsday attitude is like soothsaying.

The goal of sustainability planning is to achieve control of our resources and lives to enhance long-term government control in ways that will allow current and future Arvada council members to regulate a diversity of aspects of citizens lives.  The plan contains broad goals involving six topic areas including: Community Control, Energy Regulation, Land Use, Transportation, Waste and Water.

The Sustain Arvada Plan is the product of almost two years of hard work by the Arvada Sustainability Shelly Cook and City Council. Next steps include creating action items, prioritizing those actions and making recommendations to City Council.

To view the complete plan visit www.arvada.org/sustainability

Sustainable City Kills Jobs

Arvada is trying to become a sustainable city. They recently installed solar panels on City Hall. If you walk into the building you will find a computer reading out how much energy is saved 7 days a week. Yet, if the the City is so concerned about saving energy and helping the environment why do they leave all the lights on in the whole building at night? Don't think so, drive by city hall any night after 5:00pm. You will see all kinds of lights on all over the building.

Furthermore, if the City is so concerned about sustainability in Arvada (in 2011 for the first time the city council is starting a "Sustainability Advisory Committee") why are they cutting down all of the trees in the Garrison Street Park? To build a new park? I don't know when the last time it flooded in Colorado, but it was well over a hundred years ago.

It seems the City of Arvada is planning on using "sustainability" to do what they want against the wishes of their citizens. How many trash companies will the City of Arvada put out of business if they implement their "Waste Hauling Study". The answer is all but one private business in the waste hauling industry of Arvada would be put out of business and many people would lose their jobs.

Ken Fellman was a bad Mayor for Arvada, but it seems to me that he didn't try to kill jobs. He only went after churches. The current council may be somewhat worse if they target private sector jobs.