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January 17, 2006 Mobile, AL. The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (Mobile Bay NEP) will hold a meeting of community leaders on Monday, January 30, 2006 to examine environmental issues associated with home rule. Titled, Developing an Infrastructure for Improving Water Quality: Building a Case for Home Rule, the meeting will be held at the Daphne Civic Center from 1:00PM to 4:30PM. Presenters at the half-day event will include Mr. Buddy Sharpless, Executive Director, Association of County Commissions of Alabama; State Senator Bradley Byrne of Montrose, Alabama, Mr. Butch Ellis, County Attorney, Shelby County, Alabama; and the Honorable Lindsay Allison, Chair, Shelby County, Alabama Commission all of whom have experience with home rule issues. The meeting is the first follow-up to the highly successful Coastal Alabama Planning Summit held in October 2005. This initial summit involved community leaders in visioning the environmental and economic needs of Coastal Alabama through 2025. Increased home rule was identified as a primary cross-cutting issue necessary for achieving a sustainable economy and environmental quality in coastal Alabama. This January 30th assembly is to be the first in a series of follow-up meetings that address specific issue areas identified in the Coastal Planning Summit. The information generated from the meeting will be used to educate the community on how a greater level of home rule could facilitate local actions to improve water quality and related environmental issues. Other topics to be considered for similar follow-up meetings include transportation alternatives, regional planning/zoning, storm-water management, and point/non point source pollution among others identified by the Coastal Planning Summit and in the Mobile Bay NEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. For additional information and to read the Executive Summary from the Coastal Planning Summit, please visit the Mobile Bay NEP website: www.mobilebaynep.com. For more information about this meeting, contact David Yeager or Roberta Swann at (251) 431-6409.
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