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To: "mikeschultz@le.utah.gov" <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>, "Gay Lynn Bennion" <glbennion@le.utah.gov>, "mballard@le.utah.gov" <mballard@le.utah.gov>, "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, "chad.atkinson" <chad.atkinson@slcgov.com>, "leo.abila" <leo.abila@slcgov.com>, "todd.mitchell" <todd.mitchell@slcgov.com>, "marie.stewart" <marie.stewart@slcgov.com>, "County Council Member Bradshaw" <arbradshaw@slco.org>, "Mayor Wilson" <mayor@slco.org>, "llstringham@slco.org" <llstringham@slco.org>, "suharrison@slco.org" <suharrison@slco.org>, "Drew Hadley" <drew.hadley@slcgov.com>, "mike.brown" <mike.brown@slcgov.com>, "Cameron Roden" <croden@utah.gov>
Sent: Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:29 PM
Subject: Fw: 11-26-23 Urgent Need for UT Water Conservation Laws
November 28, 2023
Dear Utah Legislature House of Representatives Majority Leader and State Representative Mike Schultz,
Thank you again for your inspirational reply letter (below) to me yesterday.
Some additional concerns of mine that might suggest the need for possible action by the Utah Legislature include:
---I myself sense that many of the continuous crimes cases that occur here in Utah may have been incorrectly classified initially by a law-enforcement agency in Utah as a single-incident crime case, without the applicable local police department or Sheriff's Office in Utah having ever re-classified that case as a CONTINUOUS crimes case.
There is an urgent need for clearly and precisely stated criteria, to be developed with help from the Utah Legislature, that can help municipal and county law enforcement agencies in Utah as well as State of Utah law-enforcement agencies to determine as promptly as possible when and whether to reclassify an alleged felony home invasion Sex Crimes case or alleged felony home invasion Personal Injury crimes case as either an alleged Continuous Crimes case or an Alleged Continuous and Continuing Crimes case.
---Is there a current problem of many Utahns being at risk of "going deaf" from alleged "environmental" or "ambient" noise pollution that those Utahns (myself among them) did not authorize or generate?
----The percentage of Utahn households with four or more children or six of more total members in which the members of that household live in poverty might be significantly higher than many Utahns are aware of.
Which actions can or should the Utah State Legislature pursue to help reduce the incidence of poverty in Utahn households with six or more total members?
This question is critical partly because the Child Protective Services investigators for the State of Utah might possibly file Child Abuse or Child Neglect allegations against the head of any such household living under the poverty threshhold.
---I continue to be very concerned that the statewide ban on abortions here in Utah will trigger a dramatic increase each year in the number of unwanted babies being born in Utah and being raised by a biological mother and male boyfriend or spouse of hers who do not love that child.
Since unwanted children are more likely to drop out of school and more likely to pursue criminal activities, this could trigger a significant long-term increase in the crime rates here in Utah. Can the Utah Legislature pursue some actions to help prevent this expected long-term statewide increase in crime rates in Utah resulting from the current statewide ban on abortions?
---The percentage of all buildings in Utah, by category, that have NOT been built or renovated to make them as protected as possible against any risk of their being damaged or destroyed by an earthquake might be significantly higher than many Utahns are aware of.
There may be a need of an official State of Utah website that identifies each and every one of the current public buildings and current commercial buildings in Utah that were built or renovated to be as "earthquake-proof" as possible.
A complete list of each and every apartment complex or commercial property in Utah that has not yet been renovated to make it fully "earthquake-proof" could also be compiled and listed online by a designated agency of the State of Utah.
Should there be increased funding by the Utah Legislature for renovation of buildings in our state that can help prevent destruction of those buildings by an earthquake?
Utah House of Representatives Majority Leader Schultz, thank you again for kindly inviting me to share with you some concerns of mine that might be pertinent for the Utah Legislature to review.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
permanent Utahn resident John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
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To: "Mike Schultz" <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>
Sent: Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: 11-26-23 Urgent Need for UT Water Conservation Laws
November 28, 2023
Dear Utah Legislature House of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Schultz,
Thank you for your kind and friendly reply note that you wrote and sent me yesterday (below).
I feel very honored to have received that nice letter from you in your official role as one of the most powerful and influential leaders of state government here in the Beehive State.
I also appreciate your statement in your reply note that you want me to let you know if I have any other concerns.
Among the concerns and accompanying public policy issues that I would like to mention to you today are:
---There is an urgent need for greater ethnic and racial diversity and significantly better vocalization and better lyrics exhibited by the professional singers---- and significant reduction of the volume of music generated by those singers----who are chosen by for-profit businesses to "entertain" customers ...
At present, any white visitor to Salt Lake County might conclude from the sound systems of local businesses that 99 percent or more of the residents of this county are "black" in racial identity, that Salt Lake County has an "anti-white" cultural bias, or that a possible alleged "Black Mafia" has allegedly and in a flagrantly illegal manner seized control over the "music" sound systems inside one or more of the local restaurants and other local retail businesses.
Here in Salt Lake County, Utah, it often seems inside the restaurants and stores I happen to visit that white non-Hispanic professional singers, Hispanic professional singers, and Asian-American or Asian professional singers have been completely or almost entirely excluded by, and denied the opportunity to participate in, the very repetitive and monotonous "playlists" being used for "musical" sound systems inside local restaurants and stores.
That defacto and apparently illegal employment- practices discrimination occurring here in Utah that violates the legal rights of white and other non-black singers can also comprise a form of inter-racial intimidation, inter-racial abuse, inter-racial sexual harassment, inter-racial hostage-taking, and inter-racial brainwashing attempt victimizing white persons and other non-black persons either while they are dining out or shopping inside a retail business here in Utah or while they are on duty inside a workplace in Utah.
These tragically abused white or non-black individuals are being subjected to the very offensive and blood-pressure-raising and toxic "White Singers' Lives and White Listeners' Lives Don't Matter" conveyed message from continuous background music systems inside businesses during the same time period when those white persons are attempting to either cheerfully dine as paying customers or cheerfully pursue on-duty tasks in a focused and non-distracted manner as employees inside local business establishments.
Many of the Non-Black Salt Lake City residents are law-abiding and dependably civil, non-violent, conscientous and fully vaccinated against any risk of infecting others with any disease, non-profane and non-obscene, non-sadistic and anti-S&M, honest, permanently-alcohol-free and never previously addicted, permanently marijuana-free and never previously addicted, lifelong-cocaine-free, lifelong illicit drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tobacco-free and very anti-tobacco, lifelong-non-vaping, non-stalking, platonicly polite, facially cleanshaven, lifelong-tattoo-less, non-gambling, pro-law-enforcement gentlemen and ladies with no criminal-conviction record.
Many of those same very honorable white persons in Salt Lake County have been victimized by and traumatized by verbalized death threats hurled at them by African-Americans, including elsewhere in the USA. Dining out or shopping inside a business establishment in Salt Lake County under circumstances of being "held hostage" by black male and black female singers is very offensive and very alienating to white non-Hispanic local residents and white non-Hispanic visitors to Salt Lake County.
----There appears to be an urgent need for a State of Utah-conducted survey in which white non-Hispanic Utahns and Hispanic Utahns are each asked whether they knew of any white woman or white girl or Hispanic women or Hispanic girl in Utah who at any time in the most recent 10-year period was sexually harassed or sexually assaulted or physically assaulted by a black male youth, a black man, a black female youth, or a black woman.
It seems to me also urgent that the State of Utah sponsor a study as soon as possible to obtain an estimate on the percentage of all of the white or Hispanic women or white or Hispanic girls in Utah who were ever at any time in their life ever once impregnated by a black male person.
The statewide survey could also attempt to obtain an estimate on the percentage of those previously or currently impregnated women or girls in regard to whom at least one pregnancy they were subjected to resulted from inter-racial intimidation, inter-racial coercion, inter-racial hostage-taking, inter-racial human trafficking to which they were subjected against their wishes and despite their repeatedly stated opposition and revulsion, or inter-racial sexual assault.
--The increase in the number of white or Hispanic women and white or Hispanic girls here in Utah who are currently "married" to or "dating" or "living with and having sexual relations with" a black male person demands a follow-up study.
The focus of that study could be on whether "compelled" or "coerced" or involuntary or illegal inter-racial "personal" sexual relationships that occurred or are currently occurring here in Utah are among the leading underlying causes of antipathy toward black Utahn men and black Utahn male youths in our state by white persons or Hispanic persons in (Utah).
---There appears to be an urgent need for a Monoracial Dating Rights Movement here in Utah that protects the legal right of a white non-Hispanic single adult Utah resident (myself, for instance) to exclusively date and exclusively have sexual relations with one or more adult (age 21 or older) members of that individual's own racial group (white non-Hispanic American citizens, in my case).
Thank you again for your kind invitation that I share with you concerns of mine for which public policy action by the State Government of Utah could be helpful in addressing the problems cited by me.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM, Mike Schultz
<mikeschultz@le.utah.gov> wrote:
Thank you, John. I’m so glad you’re having a good dialogue with my colleague Rep. Bennion. Please let me know if you have any other concerns.
Mike
Representative Mike Schultz
House Majority Leader
Utah House of Representatives
District 12
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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
Date: Monday, November 27, 2023 at 4:43 PM
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Subject: Fw: 11-26-23 Urgent Need for UT Water Conservation Laws
November 27, 2023
A respectful FYI to each of you on the following friendly reply letter that I wrote and sent earlier today to first-rate Utah State Representative Gay Lynn Bennion of Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Best Wishes,
from gainfully employed, permanently-alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong tattoo-less, dependably civil and law-abiding and pro-law-enforcement, non-stalking, single male adult white British-German-American lifelong American citizen and permanent Utahn resident (as of January 1, 2023) John Kevin McMillan.
(I am the founder and only approved member of the non-proselytizing and politely non-Christian, factually focused, public-safety-minded and public-health-minded "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---a new and implicitly deistic religion with very strict membership-eligibility requirements that does not agree to having a second member at any time in the foreseeable future. My new non-profit Honor Society religious organization is not yet officially registered with the State Government of Utah.)
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Sent: Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: 11-26-23 Urgent Need for UT Water Conservation Laws
Dear Utah State Representative Gay Lynn Bennion,
Thank you for your friendly reply letter.
I hope that these very tentative suggestions I wrote and sent last night to you and your colleagues in the Utah State Legislature will prove to be helpful to your very influential governing body in early 2024.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:18 AM, Gay Lynn Bennion
<glbennion@le.utah.gov> wrote:
Hello John,
Welcome to Utah. These are some great suggestions. For decades, the Department of Natural Resources, Great Salt Lake Advisory Committee, Audubon, and others have been focused on ways to conserve water.
Here's some information you might want to review:
The Division of Water Resources has released the Great Salt Lake Basin Integrated Plan. Clyde Snow provided a Water Policy Inventory & Assessment for the project. It’s two parts – a Water Policy Narrative and an interactive Matrix of all of the laws, administrative rules, program websites, administrative forms, and related recommendations passed in the last several years. I personally find the Matrix the most helpful.
Best regards,
Representative Bennion
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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>
Date: Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 11:23 PM
To: Joel Briscoe <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, Jen Plumb <jplumb@le.utah.gov>, Angela Romero <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, Scott Sandall <ssandall@le.utah.gov>, Walt Brooks <wbrooks@le.utah.gov>, Nate Blouin <nblouin@le.utah.gov>, David Hinkins <dhinkins@le.utah.gov>, Derrin Owens <dowens@le.utah.gov>, Evan Vickers <evickers@le.utah.gov>, calbrecht@le.utah.gov <calbrecht@le.utah.gov>, Gay Lynn Bennion <glbennion@le.utah.gov>, Bridger Bolinder <bbolinder@le.utah.gov>, schew@le.utah.gov <schew@le.utah.gov>, Tim Jimenez <tjimenez@le.utah.gov>, Mike Kohler <mkohler@le.utah.gov>, Derrin Owens <dowens@le.utah.gov>, Doug Owens <dougowens@le.utah.gov>, Thomas W. Peterson <tpeterson@le.utah.gov>, Mike Schultz <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>, Rex P. Shipp <rshipp@le.utah.gov>, Casey Snider <csnider@le.utah.gov>, cwatkins@le.utah.gov <cwatkins@le.utah.gov>, chart@le.utah.gov <chart@le.utah.gov>, Julie Humberstone <jhumberstone@le.utah.gov>, Patricia Owen <powen@le.utah.gov>, Ryan Williams <rwilliams@le.utah.gov>, Finn Rose <frose@le.utah.gov>, farose@le.utah.gov <farose@le.utah.gov>, Mayor Wilson <mayor@slco.org>, County Council Member Bradshaw <arbradshaw@slco.org>, llstringham@slco.org <llstringham@slco.org>, suharrison@slco.org <suharrison@slco.org>, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021 <mayor@slcgov.com>, Salt Lake City (UT) City Council <council.comments@slcgov.com>, Mark A. Strong <mstrong@le.utah.gov>, Kirk Cullimore <kcullimore@le.utah.gov>, Mike Weichers <mweichers@ch.utah.gov>, Envision Utah <info@envisionutah.org>, jsweeney@sltrib.com <jsweeney@sltrib.com>, Deseret News 2022 <dnweb@deseretnews.com>, newsmedia@ldschurch.org <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, mayor@murray.utah.gov <mayor@murray.utah.gov>, Utah Restaurant Association 2022 <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, Utah Press Assn Director Brian Allfrey 2022 <ballfrey@utahpress.com>, Attorney General of Utah <uag@utah.gov>, University of Utah Student Newspaper 2022 <press@chronicle.utah.edu>, Utah Apartment Association 2022 <info@uaahq.org>, UT_Webmanager <ut_webmanager@hud.gov>, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021 <beckiepage@utah.gov>, membership@utahretail.com <membership@utahretail.com>, Office of Gov. Spencer Cox <govcomm@utah.gov>, Utah Republican Party <info@utgop.org>, Utah Democrats <mail@utdem.org>, Him-roi <him-roi@umail.utah.edu>, contactus@imail.org <contactus@imail.org>, Utah Apartment Association 2022 <info@uaahq.org>, Utah Restaurant Association 2022 <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, utah.chapter@sierraclub.org <utah.chapter@sierraclub.org>, Fox News SLC 2022 <news@fox13now.com>, nbauer@abc4.com <nbauer@abc4.com>, Jennifer Gardiner <jgardiner@abc4.com>, CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters <60m@cbsnews.com>, nytnews@nytimes.com <nytnews@nytimes.com>, Utah Public Radio 2022 <tom.williams@usu.edu>, JCarter@cleanwater.org <JCarter@cleanwater.org>, commerce@utah.gov <commerce@utah.gov>, Utah State University Provost 2022 <provost@usu.edu>, Utah State Univ Communications 2022 <ucom@usu.edu>, agriculture@utah.gov <agriculture@utah.gov>, Berkeley (CA) Mayor (2016) Tom Bates <mayor@cityofberkeley.info>, newsmedia@ldschurch.org <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, byu-info@byu.edu <byu-info@byu.edu>, sociology@byu.edu <sociology@byu.edu>, Murrayschools Info <info@murrayschools.org>, anielson@murrayschools.org <anielson@murrayschools.org>
Subject: 11-26-23 Urgent Need for UT Water Conservation Laws
November 26, 2023
Dear Highly Esteemed Members of the Utah State Legislature,
I feel sure that each of you is already painfully aware of the grim fact that Utah is the second-driest state in the entire nation.
As a new permanent resident of Utah, I would like to offer each of you a variety of very tentative brainstorming ideas of mine on how our state each year can consistently provide an adequate quantity of safe drinking water and irrigation water for all residents and visitors to Utah, and for all applicable businesses and farmers in our state.
Among the possible public-policy strategies toward that goal for our state:
----a State of Utah-sponsored "Utah Water Conservation Tips" website could invite and post brainstorming ideas from Utahns of all ages, and from visitors to Utah of all ages, on how Utah can achieve a significant reduction in total annual consumption of drinking water throughout our state. Candid and non-profane online dialogues in response to each of the suggestions posted at that website could also be encouraged by the moderators or editors of that website.
----The Utah State Legislature could sponsor the creation of a Utah Water Conservation Pop Quiz that could be given to each public school student in Utah. Students receiving a grade of "95" to "100" on that pop quiz could be honored publicly at an all-school assembly in which their school principal would preside and would hand out awards to each of the top-scoring students.
----The Utah Legislature could declare "War on our Utah Mega-Drought" by requiring each business in Utah to post on permanent display for all employees and visitors inside their business at least one Water Conservation Tip.
----The Utah State Legislature could require that each public primary and public primary school in Utah must each year offer their students a mandatory-attendance videotape or movie focused on the Utah Mega-Drought and how to conserve water in this state.
----The Utah State Legislature could require that any and all radio stations and television stations and news-media publications in Utah must offer a Water Conservation Tip or Water Quality Tip to their listeners, viewers, or readers, respevtively, at least once per month in a format that is clearly identifiable to all applicable listeners, viewers, and readers, respectively.
---The Utah Legislature could sponsor and help finance the offering of workshops for Utahn parents and Utahn Sunday school teachers on how they can be successful at teaching their or others' children the skills needed to help conserve water and protect and enhance the quality of water in our state.
----The Utah Legislature could recommend or require that all restaurants and cafes in Utah must serve water or iced tea guests or customers in glasses that each hold no more than 16 ounces of water or iced tea.
---A "Utah Water Conservation Statistics Office' could be established established by the State of Utah. That proposed new state agency office could employ numerous experts in both statistics and water conservation.
That new State of Utah agency could offer assistance to any and all Utah Legislators or Utah Legislative Committees that or who request information from the cited office about the "Water Conservation Impact" (WCI), and "Water Quality Impact" (WQI), of any given proposed new state law or proposed new state policy or proposed new construction project or service.
For example, if my own duly elected state lawmaker in the Utah House of Representatives, Rep. Joel Briscoe, were to introduce a new bill before the Utah Legislature that requires all retail stores and hotels and apartment complexes in Utah to install or continue to offer State of Utah-approved water-conserving faucets and State of Utah-approved water-conserving toilets in any and all bathroom or restroom sinks inside their commercial real estate properties, this could save many thousands of gallons of water per year in our state.
----The Utah Legislature could approve a new law that requires the Utah State Tax Commission state agency to provide corporate tax discounts to respective businesses in Utah that can prove with legal documents that they reduced their own total water consumption rate from the previous calendar year, or that can prove with purchase and installation receipts that they have recently installed more water-conserving faucetd or more water-conserving toilets inside their business property in Utah.
----Your very influential Legislature could assign highest possible priority to water conservation by creating a new permanent Legislative committee or new permanent Legislative subcommittee that is focused exclusively on Water Conservation-related and Water Quality-related public-policy issues in Utah.
----Your Utah State Legislature could require that all Utah-theme social studies textbooks books, all Utah-theme government textbooks, all Utah History-theme textbooks, all Utah Geography textbooks, and any other Utah-theme textbooks must each include at least one chapter devoted to providing pertinent factual information about water conservation issues and water quality issues that have arisen here in Utah.
----The Utah Legislature and Utah State Board of Education could require that each public school or public college in Utah must require that their students pass at least one academic course on water conservation and water quality in order to graduate from that public school or public college.
----The Utah Legislature could approve funding for field trips that enable public school classes in Utah to receive a guided tour of a business or non-profit group headquarters or meeting place or other building in their town or city that practices and benefits from water conservation policies at that workplace in Utah.
----The Utah Legislature could approve funding for a generous annual financial awards and financial prizes and college scholarships to the Utah public primary or public secondary or public post-secondary students who each were judged at their school or college as having submitted a very creative and original and helpful idea for promoting water conservation or for raising the quality of tap water in our state.
----The official songs honoring Utah could be revised to urge or praise year-round devotion to water conservation by a wide variety of Utahns of all ages.
----The Utah Legislature could co-sponsor the offering of very informative and inspirational public "Water Conservation and Water Quality Workshops" open to the general public and news media. Those workshops in numerous cities and towns of Utah could be led by Utahn water conservation experts, with questions from Utahns attending those workshops being invited at each such event.
----The Utah Legislature could approve criteria for determining which Utahns are granted official State of Utah certification as "Water Conservation and Water Quality Experts" in our state.
----The Utah Legislature could provide financial incentives through our state corporate tax policies to Water Conservation Experts and Water Quality Experts residing in Utah who also pursue a part-time or full-time career or consulting services career focused on Water Conservation or Water Quality.
----The Utah Legislature could officially appoint a very articulate and incisive full-time "Utah Water Conservation Czar."
That well-paid expert on those crucial topics could produce podcasts, factual documentary videotapes, hold press conferences and grant interviews with the news media that are focused on Water Conservation Issues here in Utah, and give public speeches in public schools, private schools, at civic group meetings, and in town civic centers---public speeches that promote a healthy "Water Conservation Ethos" throughout our entire state.
----The Utah Legislature could sponsor an annual essay competition in which Utahns ranging in age from age 8 to age 30 could each----through a class they each attend at a school or college or university in Utah--- be invited by a teacher or professor of theirs to write and submit an essay explaining why they believe that water conservation and water quality protection are of supreme importance for the Utahns and visitors here of today, and for the Utahns and visitors here of five, 10, 20, or 30 or 50 or 75 or 100 years from now.
---The innovative "Water Waster" program (see online link further below) currently sponsored by the City of Ogden, Utah, could serve as a model for a statewide program of that type to be approved by the Utah State Legislature.
That statewide program could invite reports or tips from Utahn residents and visitors who have heard rumors or obtained factual information about one or more alleged water wasters in Utah.
Below is a link to a website providing more information about the Water Waster program in Ogden that apparently has been very successful in that city.
----The Utah State Legislature could revise the state penal code to impose a variety of criminal-law penalties for water wasters in Utah whose conduct is flagrantly illegal.
This could help increase the scope of Environmental Crimes here in Utah for which a perpetrator upon conviction could be put in a state prison in Utah for a specified time period.
I hope that this brainstorming letter proves to be helpful to some, several, or many of you Utah State Legislators.
I welcome any reply note to me that any of you are willing to offer me.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from John Kevin McMillan, the youngest grandson of former Murray (UT) butcher shop owner Parley McMillan of Murray and his devoted Mormon Church (LDS) member wife, Mrs. Alice Mae Pugh (maiden surname) McMillan of Murray.
My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
My home phone: (801) 355-0850.
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