Next Steps
During two days of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and open microphone sessions, the Town Meeting served as a forum for constructive dialogue about issues surrounding health and community impacts of goods movement and the Ports. On the first day of the Town Meeting, California Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen challenged the participants to become actively engaged in developing recommendations for the State of California’s “Action Plan” on goods movement. [See http://www.arb.ca.gov/gmp/gmp.htm for more information.] Town Meeting attendees responded to his challenge during the open microphone sessions and at each of the Saturday workshops, by coming up with a set of recommendations they considered useful in formulating the State’s Action Plan.
On March 11, 2005, the Community Outreach and Education Program of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, which convened the Town Meeting, sent a draft report of the Town Meeting recommendations to Secretary Alan Lloyd of the California Environmental Protection Agency and to Secretary Sunne Wright McPeak of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Copies of the correspondence, as well as the draft recommendations and list of Town Meeting attendees, are linked below:
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