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My name is Carol Kinser and I fully support the position of the
Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition that AB617 in South
Sacramento was a major disappointment and sham due to following
issues:
Lack of transparency and commitment to the law. AB617 is intended
to address non-mobile pollutions sources. The local AB617 committee
and Sacramento AQMD deliberately avoided major areas of concern to
local BIPOC and low-income communities by creating boundaries and
geographic restrictions to exclude high impacted areas (See Map).
Further, $23 Million has been with AB617 spent and it has had no
impact on the most polluted neighborhoods intentionally excluded
from the process.
We ask that CARB establish higher standards for local Air Quality
Management Districts to have a robust, inclusive and broad-based
process to implement AB617 according to the law.
The number of committee representatives on AB617 cannot be
arbitrarily restrictive. The Sac-EJC.org is the largest EJ
organization in Sacramento and after several attempts to join,
BIPOC EJ leaders were not selected to be on the board.
There should be full transparency and accounting of how the funds
are used with strong evidence that marginalized communities in EJ
zones will directly benefit significantly through transformative
health outcomes and cleaner industry practices. As a Registered
Nurse, I strongly believe Health Program Evaluators must be
included in the process to guarantee best community health
outcomes.