Below is the December 19, 2022, public-policy-minded brainstorming letter that I wrote and sent to each of my current or future state lawmakers here in Salt Lake City, Utah:
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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>
To: "Joel Briscoe" <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, "dkitchen@le.utah.gov" <dkitchen@le.utah.gov>, "jplumb@le.utah.gov" <jplumb@le.utah.gov>, "Nick Frederick" <nfrederick@le.utah.gov>, "George Pyle" <gpyle@sltrib.com>, "Office of Gov. Spencer Cox" <govcomm@utah.gov>, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021" <beckiepage@utah.gov>, "Deseret News 2022" <dnweb@deseretnews.com>, "newsmedia@ldschurch.org" <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, "Fox News SLC 2022" <news@fox13now.com>, "news@ksl.com" <news@ksl.com>, "joedougherty@utah.gov" <joedougherty@utah.gov>, "University of Utah Student Newspaper 2022" <press@chronicle.utah.edu>, "nbauer@abc4.com" <nbauer@abc4.com>, "Jennifer Gardiner" <jgardiner@abc4.com>, "Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021" <mayor@slcgov.com>, "Salt Lake City (UT) City Council" <council.comments@slcgov.com>, "Utah Republican Party" <info@utgop.org>, "him-roi@umail.utah.edu" <him-roi@umail.utah.edu>, "toddroyce@utah.gov" <toddroyce@utah.gov>, "candicehasenyager@utah.gov" <candicehasenyager@utah.gov>, "nathanschwebach@utah.gov" <nathanschwebach@utah.gov>, "toddadams@utah.gov" <toddadams@utah.gov>, "kimwells@utah.gov" <kimwells@utah.gov>, "Schools Utah Webmaster" <webmaster@schools.utah.gov>, "uag@agutah.gov" <uag@agutah.gov>, "Utah Apartment Association 2022" <info@uaahq.org>, "Utah Restaurant Association 2022" <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, "CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters" <60m@cbsnews.com>, "Republican Governors Association 2021" <info@rga.org>, "Western Governors' Association 2021" <hpropst@westgov.org>, "NBC Nightly News Headqrtrs 2016" <contact.nbcnews@nbcuni.com>, "Las Vegas Sun newspaper 2022" <feedback@lasvegassun.com>, "DenverPostEditors" <newsroom@denverpost.com>, "Utah Press Assn Director Brian Allfrey 2022" <ballfrey@utahpress.com>, "WashingtonPostLettersEditor" <letters@washpost.com>, "Los Angeles Times" <newstips@latimes.com>, "Letters" <letters@seattletimes.com>, "San Jose Mercury News Editors" <webfeedback@mercurynews.com>, "Bloomberg Media 2015" <release@bloomberg.net>, "Arizona Republic Newstips" <newstips@arizonarepublic.com>, "Matt Bernstein Boston Globe (2016)" <mbernstein@globe.com>, "Time Magazine Editors" <letters@time.com>
Cc: "Utah Educational TV 2022" <resources@uen.org>, "sharrison@le.utah.gov" <sharrison@le.utah.gov>, "Mark A. Strong" <mstrong@le.utah.gov>, "markwheatley@le.utah.gov" <markwheatley@le.utah.gov>, "Mark Peterson" <mark.peterson@schools.utah.gov>, "Jen Dailey-Provost" <jdprovost@le.utah.gov>, "County Council Member Bradshaw" <ARBradshaw@slco.org>, "Cyprus Credit Union" <member_support@cypruscu.com>, "Utah Business magazine 2022" <news@utahbusiness.com>, "Utahbar Webmaster" <webmaster@utahbar.org>, "communications@utahbar.org" <communications@utahbar.org>, "AMA Council on Science and Public Health" <csaph@ama-assn.org>, "utah.chapter@sierraclub.org" <utah.chapter@sierraclub.org>
Sent: Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:58 AM
Subject: 12-19-22 Proposed Utah Water-Conservation Laws
Dear Utah State Rep. Joel Briscoe, Utah State Senator Derek Kitchen, and Utah State Senator-Elect Dr. Jenn Plumb,
As a current or future constituent of each of you, I urge each of you very influential current or future legislstors here in Utah to please author, sponsor, co-sponsor, or advocate for a new state law that will:
---Require an automatic 10 percent increase per unit of water on any and all monthly water bills that are incurred by private citizens or businesses in Utah.
---Require that any land developer or real-estate developer in Utah must provide an annual report to the State of Utah on land-conservation strategies, water-conservation strategies, water-quality enhancement strategies, and air-quality enhancement strategies that each such developer is pursuing.
---Establish a "Utah Water Saver Superfund" that can help enable state and local government agencies throughout Utah to reduce water consumption levels while also improving the quality of tap water, river water, and spring water throughout Utah.
---Impose a Utah Water Saver tax and Utah Air Quality tax on any and all hotel guests renting a hotel room anywhere in Utah, with revenues from that tax going toward the above-cited Superfund and toward state funding for air-quality enhancement projects throughout Utah.
---Require that each and every ski resort in Utah must charge each of their paying guests a cited fee that goes toward the Water Saver Superfund and a possible Utah Air Quality Superfund.
----Invite tax-deductible financial donations to the Water Saver Superfund from private citizens, non-profit foundations, generous religious groups such as the LDS Church, businesses, millionaires, and billionaires residing in Utah, with donations serving as a basis for a deduction from the private citizen's or business donor's annual State of Utah Income Tax payments or State of Utah corporate income tax payments.
---Establish a "Friends of Utah" organization that invites financial donations to that Superfund from out-of-state residents who have visited Utah in order to go skiing here, and who want to help keep the skiing industry and environment as vibrant as possible
here in Utah, and from businesses throughout Utah and the entire USA that profit from tourism in Utah.
---Help finance the proposed Utah Water Saver
Superfund through imposition of a special State of Utah Water Saver Tax on each and every business in Utah that manufactures bottled beverage products or canned beverage products, or that builds swimming pools, or that has been officially cited as a "Water Waster" by a government agency in Utah.
---Establish a fully-staffed "Utah Water Saver Patrol" employing professional investigators who invite "Water Waster" complaints from residents and issue citations to businesses that fail to meet water conservation standards as delineated by the Utah Legislature or the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
---Offer financial incentives to business owners throughout Utah for replacement of current sinks or toilets in their office or workplace with water-saving sinks and water-conserving toilets in each of that business's restrooms.
---Offer financial incentives to retail stores in Utah to discontinue their sale of water-wasteful sinks, water-wasteful toilets, water-wasteful bathtubs, and water-wasteful showers here in Utah, and to instead sell to consumers water-conserving sinks, water-efficient toilets, water-saving bathtubs, and water-saving showers.
---Require the permanent closing of any and all of the so-called "gay bathhouses" of Utah, which are allegedly water-wasteful and allegedly spread sexually-transmitted diseases and other potentially fatal diseases at an unconscionable rate.
I hope these tentatively worded recommendations are helpful to each of you government officials during and before the upcoming 2023 session of the Utah Legislature.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
Home phone: (801) 355-0850.
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