MY CHRISTMAS-DAY BRAINSTORMING LETTER THAT I WROTE AND SENT TO SALT LAKE CITY MAYOR ERIN MENDENHALL:

 

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021 <mayor@slcgov.com>; "newsmedia@ldschurch.org" <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>; Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021 <beckiepage@utah.gov>; constituentservices@utah.gov <constituentservices@utah.gov>; Mittromney Info <info@mittromney.com>; Utah Department of Health <udohmediaoffice@utah.gov>

Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2021, 12:18:48 AM CST

Subject: 12-25-21 Drought-Response Ideas for Salt Lake City

Christmas Day, 

December 25, 2021

Dear Salt Lake City Mayor Mendenhall,

I hope that you and all of your noble colleagues with the City of Salt Lake enjoy a very healthful, prosperous, and joyous Holiday Season and New Year.

Mayor Mendendall, I am writing to you today because I read recently about the significant recent increase in the number of residents in your truly great state-capital city. 

It seems to me very likely that the increase in residents in your first-rate and well-planned city brings with it a significant increase in citywide demand for water in your thriving community.

Do you personally believe that Salt Lake City has a possible need for establishment of an official new or revised and updated Drought-Emergency-Response Plan that, when a drought occurs, could be immediately consulted and implemented by City officials on a citywide basis?

It is possible that some award-winning private consulting firm in Utah, Arizona, or California, for instance, might have particular expertise at helping enlightened municipal governments such as the City of Salt Lake to develop a Drought-Abatement Plan in the event of a water shortage. 

I have not pursued any factual research on that subject. I just wanted to raise this possibility for your benefit. I am a firm believer in the value of public-policy-minded tentative brainstorming by private citizens during their leisuretime that can be helpful to public-policy-makers.

I am also very hopeful that your very influential Salt Lake City Council will be willing to consider sponsoring a new study to identify each of the current businesses, current industries, or homeowners in Salt Lake City who or that currently consume the most water.

In the event of a future drought in Salt Lake City, should or does the City of Salt Lake have the legal authority to impose temporary multi-hour or, if needed, multi-day, restrictions on water consumption levels by cited businesses or cited industries (possibly your city's popular beer breweries, for instance) in Salt Lake City that consume the greatest quantities of water per day or per week?

Also, should or does the City of Salt Lake currently have the legal authority during a drought to impose temporary restrictions on water-consumption levels by homeowners and private citizens in your much-admired capital city?

Finally, I would like to raise the question of whether the City of Salt Lake could benefit from reliance on a meteorologist consultant, if needed, who could help the City to immediately identify weather conditions that appear to be on the verge of triggering expected multi-day drought-like conditions in your city or urban area.

Thank you in advance, Mayor Mendenhall, for your very kind willingness to review this brainstorming letter from a future resident of your globally-admired city. 

I feel very enthusiastic about moving to your great and beautiful city of outstanding civility on December 31 of this year! It will be a great honor for me to live in the very same city where my beloved father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, then an LDS member, attended the University of Utah and excelled academically there in subjects such as Chemistry and Botany. It will also be great honor for me to live in the same metro area as Father's childhood hometown of Murray.

With Friendly Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, 8805 N. Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.

My new mailing address, which I have already paid for, and that I will be using immediately after I move from the state-capital of Texas to your wonderful state-capital city for the Beehive State::  

P.O. Box 521622, Salt Lake City, UT 84152.

John Kevin McMillan