Agenda 21, Iclei, Metropolis and Jacksonville

[Patricia M. McBride]

Although there is some information missing and a few things I have not been able to locate in the way of links, I am going to post what has been found and hope some of you will take an interest and maybe find additional information.  There is just so much out there, it is hard to contain it all in one blog.

This is very solid.  There is much information on this  including the fact that Peyton paid to belong to Metropolis in 2007 (info links into this web site are layered, but draw you into "climate change" and Agenda 21 of which Metropolis was a tenacle).  Metropolis was the pre-curser to Iclei (again an initiative of the UN Agenda 21 that uses local government to install a program where we go round the bent on "climate change" as directed by ICLEI to implement via local initiatives when the UN realized the American people would be up in arms if the federal government gave our sovereignty away in lieu of UN control over our country) .  I also have more than what is here already to back up the fact the JCCI gave Green Transition Scoreboard over $60,000 last year and our city council gave JCCI over $60,000 but slightly less than the JCCI gave GTS).  That is not to say the city gave this our tax dollars to JCCI for the express purpose of giving our tax dollars to an organization tied to the UN and the "climate change" hoax, because I do not think they did.

http://www.greentransitionscoreboard.com/

http://www.climateprosperity.com/index.html

 

Here are some screen shots and information that has been found:

Mayor Signs Sustainable Building Ordinance

April 22, 2009

Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton was today joined by Robert Schuster, chairman of the Environmental Protection Board; Sarah Boren, executive director of the Green Team Project and other leaders in the sustainable building industry as he signed a bill (2009-211) approved by the Jacksonville City Council creating a sustainable buildings program in the City of Jacksonville.

'This is an important day for Jacksonville and for the building industry, as we take this critical step to ensure that the local government is making certified, sustainable building practices a priority,' said Mayor Peyton. 'This action will require that every new city-owned building be built using environmentally-friendly practices of design, construction, and commission.'

The ordinance, which was passed by the City Council on April 14, is designed to work in coordination with Executive Order 2008-03, signed by Mayor Peyton on Sept. 26, 2008. The executive order created a new sustainability office and policies for the operation of city government, including requirements for right-sizing the city fleet, implementation of energy and water conservation mechanisms, publication of new environmentally-preferable procurement guidelines and a sustainable buildings ordinance.

Following the signing ceremony, Mayor Peyton and other attendees toured the future City Hall Annex (formerly the Haverty's Building), under renovation at the corner of Laura and Duval streets in downtown Jacksonville. Derek Igou, sustainability officer for the city and Tom Goldsbury, chief of the Building Inspection Division, conducted the tour.

'Once this building is complete, it will be one of the first buildings owned by the city built according to certified sustainable practices,' said Igou. 'LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards are recognized as the gold standard in the building industry and accreditation at that level is our goal.'

Sustainable building practices included in the ongoing renovation of the City Hall Annex include the following:

• Energy conserving lights, including motion and sound-sensitive activators;
• water conserving devices, including low-flow toilets, sinks and waterless urinals;
• highly reflective cap sheet on roof that refracts sunlight;
• use of low VOC (volatile organic compounds) paint and carpet throughout the building;
• use of regional materials, including flooring material in front foyer, which reduces cost of delivery;
• all window systems contain reflective tint, decreasing heat during the summer months;
• Construction materials removed during the renovation were either abated (asbestos, ash and lead- based paint) and/or recycled for reuse;
• Majority ceiling materials are made from recycled material;
• 90% of all steel used in the renovation is from recycled material, including all wall studs.

Compliance with the Sustainable Buildings Program Ordinance is voluntary for all private construction practices but required for all newly constructed city-owned buildings, including the new Animal Care and Control Facility (under construction on Forest Street in the Brooklyn area) and the new county courthouse. In addition, all modifications to existing city-owned buildings where renovation is more than 50 percent of the total square footage are required to meet the new, sustainable standards.

The ordinance also puts in place incentives for the private industry to build sustainable buildings, with a 'fast-track' development review process for green buildings and a Sustainable Building Certification program of recognition. In addition, the Environmental Protection Board will administer the Sustainable Building Certification Refund Grant Program ($1,000 per project). Grant dollars will be used to encourage initial participation in the Sustainable Buildings Program and shall terminate upon disbursal of $100,000 or upon final action on all applications received prior to December 31, 2013, whichever occurs first.

Fast Facts About Sustainable Buildings:

• 8-9 percent operating cost decreases (water and electricity usage)
• 7.5 percent increase in value of building
• 2-16 percent increase in worker productivity (Information courtesy of www.usgbcnf.org)

Fast Facts About the future City Hall Annex:

• Designed in 1901, construction was completed in 1907
• Building has been mostly vacant for 30 years
• Renovation is being conducted by the Police Fire and Pension Fund
• Renovation began in September of 2007 (demolition and hazardous material abatement began in 2006)
• Total square feet: 60,000 (Building occupies ¼ of a city block)
• Projected Completion Date: Substantially complete in early May, with 6-7 weeks for a final punchlist and installation of furniture. Occupants will move in to the building in June.
• Projected Occupants: Environmental ;amp; Compliance, Environmental Quality Division, Municipal Code Enforcement, Pension Office.
• Estimated Total Cost of Sustainable Buildings Features: $500,000 total
  • *$250,000 in design and commissioning, $250,000 in construction
• Estimated Total Cost of Renovation: $13,500,000.
• ...............................................................................................................

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(Comment:  US Green Building Council is in partnership with Iclei which is part of Agenda 21.............see list of partners below this info...3rd from the bottom of the list)

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Contact information

Christi Veleta, Program Administrator

Environmental Protection Board

407 N. Laura Street, Third Floor

904-255-7111

[e-mail]

 

Partners of Iclei

ISky,  Architecture 2030,  British Consulates-General,  California Climate Action,  Registry,  Carbon Disclosure Project,  CBS EcoMedia, CDM,  Center for American Progress,  Center for Neighborhood Technology,  Clean Air-Cool Planet,  Clinton Climate Initiative,  C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group,   Earth Day Network,  Green For All,  International City/County Managers Association,  Intertribal Council on Utility Policy (ICOUP),  Island Press,  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,  National Association of Counties,  National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA),  National League of Cities,  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),  National Wildlife Federation,   Natural Resources Defense Council,   New England Governors’ and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ Conference,  Presidential Climate Action Project,   Public Citizen,   Sierra Club and Sierra Club’s Cool Cities/Cool Counties,  Strategic Energy Innovations,  Sundance Preserve,  The Climate Group,  Together.com,  United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG),  University of Texas at Arlington,  U.S. Conference of Mayors,  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,  U.S. Green Building Council,  World Mayors Council on Climate Change,  Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

 

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Jacksonville, Florida (City of Jacksonville, Florida) USA - North America

City - Inhabitants (): 807.815

Territory size: 44 km²

Community GDP in USD:38.322.743.600

 

Baseline year used: 1990

Targets: CO₂e reduction target: 7% by 2012 (community)

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Jacksonville, Florida (City of Jacksonville, Florida) USA - North America

City - Inhabitants (): 807.815

Territory size: 44 km²

Community GDP in USD:38.322.743.600

Baseline year used: 1990

Targets: CO₂e reduction target: 7% by 2012 (community)

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Steps implemented:

Conducted a GHG emissions inventory

Adopted an emissions reduction target(s)

Developed a Local Action Plan

Implemented policies and measures

Monitored results

you will have to do a city search at this link, but Jacksonville, Florida, USA is there as above showing we have met one of the Iclei requirements:

LINK:  http://www.climate-catalogue.org/index.php?id=6917&cmd=shortlist

 

I posted 2 very comprehensive explanation blogs which are the work of another First Coast Tea Party member.  They can be found here:

http://fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/agenda-21-international-cou...

 

http://fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/agenda-21-town-officials-ar...

 

[Patricia M. McBride]

Paul, the 8 to 9% savings is how much?  And how many years will it take to make up for the $500,000 extra it cost to make the "green" changes.  Will the cost of this move to save 8 to 9% actually allow us to save more than the amount spent?  Or will the changes wear out or need to be replaced before the savings from spending the extra $500,000 be realized.  You see, I am for saving too, but I somehow think, the cost of making the building "green" is significant enough that we may end up spending more in the long run than we might have saved doing some minor things that might not have saved 8 to 9% but might have saved enough to make them worth spending the money required to get a smaller savings.  In most cases, the cost of the so called improvements does not justify the small amount saved.

[Paul Davis]

Article 2 and Section VII of the United Nations charter

http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml

Article 2

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.

7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

There is a NAACP resolution in front of the Geneva Human Rights Commission attacking the new restrictions in a number of State Legislatures have passed on voter registration. The petitioners acknowledge that under Article 2 and Section VII of the UN charter, they have no power to enforce the Geneva Human Rights Commission ruling on any legislature in the United States.

 

It appears that both the US Constituion and the UN charter agree that a nation cannot, will not, and is not desired to give up its national sovereignty. Any claim to the contrary being total malarky in the context of the controlling documents and the law. Agenda 21 is att best an aspirational resolution having no controlling legal authority, notwithstanding some persons who are making a buck in speaking fees and sale of anti Agenda "kits".

[Paul Davis]

I dunno, I have enough Scots blood in me that appreciate a 8-9 percent savings in government expenditures. Sounds like good management principles for the most part. Waste not, want not. A penny saved is a penny earned. It isn't as though the UN has any legal authority apart from the US and state constitutions.

 I see no reason a local government shouldn't take a cost savings when it can.. it's free money.  If the UN also happens to think that is a good Idea too, then so what? It probably is.

You might disagree with me, but I think that we are Taxed Enough Already.

[Patricia M. McBride]

And anyone who signs on with these groups violates the constitution because they have basically signed a treaty that agrees to violate the people's rights and impose on us foreign laws. 

[Patricia M. McBride]

Paul, being energy efficient is not a bad thing; however, being involved with an organization whose whole crux is to turn the citizens of our country into slaves, take away all personal property rights (because they believe government should own everything), and put in place bureaus and bureacracies that are NOT democratically elected (so the people have NO voice) just so they can tell everyone what they have to do to save energy, does not seem like anything we should be doing.   And the question that begs to be asked is CO2 actually something, we as humans, should be trying to limit or even can limit since the oceans are the biggest contributor of CO2 in our atmosphere and plants use CO2 for food.  Amanda, you do not even know what you are talking about and apparently have not read the reports put out by the UN and their plan, and you obviously did not go to the web site of the organization down in St Augustine and look at what they believe either.  They believe in global warming or global change or whatever name they are calling it now, and redistribution of wealth which is what all of this is about.   It most assuredly is happening and it most assuredly is just like way back in the 70s when they first tried to pull this grand hoax off only that time it a global ice age.  These are not folks I want city officials signing on to when they work against freedom, against democracy, against everything we, in this country, believe in. 

[amanda choate]

Roma and Tom, it is true. This isn't some vast conspiracy, it is about sustainability and reducing energy use and consequently less CO2 in theatmosphere. It is hard for me to believe that though Agenda 21 has been around 22 years this is the sign that they are getting ready to shift to one world government. This is just best practices agenda.  A perfect example of this is new regs the US Coast Guard wants to implement, too slowly in the minds of many, to keep a very agressive shrimp out of US waters, particularly the Great Lakes. The Coast Guard has a solution. But other countries also share this problem and may come up with different solutions. What shipping interests want is one global solution, that can be implemented anywhere. This one solution will bring about a 35 billion business, so of coursethere are competing interests. But I tell you this, when that answer is resolved, invest in that company because they are going to rich.

So Paul, yeah that is what we are talking about here. That somehow an initiative to save energy and slow the release of greenhouse gases is a worldwide conspiracy to enslave us to the UN. The UN, is going to take over the world, with the help of the Fed and the Illuminati and Bilderburgers and Triumvirate Commission and of course the Clinton Iniative, the Aspen Group, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations and others. IT can't just be about saving some taxpayer money on energy by improving insulation, lighting and climate conditioning, it is part of a larger conspiracy. Duh.

That is is a beautiful beach your picture is taken on, is that Talbot?

[Paul Davis]

Do I understand correctly that by signing on to the principles of Agenda 21 the city is saving 8-9 percent energy savings due to low water use, automatic light switches, insulation, low flow appliances, reflective windows, right sizing the fleet, and so forth?

 

This is a bad thing?

[amanda choate]

This is designed to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% from a 1990 baseline by 2012. It saves money, energy and LEEDS is nothing more than a best practices concept. Kind of like any improvement program, like Sigma 7.