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Action Alert!!!
Where: 2811
Agriculture Dr., Madison - Location: Board Room
When: 10:30 am,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
What:
DATCP Board Meeting - Comment about your support for the
legalization of raw milk sales!
Dear All
Opportunity arises!!!
DATCP board is meeting on Nov 11th with public comment period beginning at
10:30 am in Madison. Max Kane called me with this information. Attached is
the agenda and members bio provided by Max.
Karen Schultz is the DATCP employee in legal services who takes minutes
for these meetings. Her number is 608-224-5023. I called her this
morning. She told me that public comment period begins at 10:30 am. We can
register the day of the meeting, Karen said if not many people show up
each person can talk for 5 minutes, if many people show up everyone get 2
minutes.
DATCP board is the group that approves administrative rule changes.!!!
This board approved the rule changes that is putting so much pressure on
the raw milk producers today.
What do you think of asking your consumers to go to Madison and be at this
meeting. If we can get 200 people it will set a tone of seriousness. Now
is the time! I believe we need people from each group to attend.
We do not have much time as usual. I believe a report on the effects of
this rule change needs to be presented. Karen said in the past if 25
people show up the DATCP board will allow a letter to be read for all the
people they represent rather than each individual speaking. I think a
combination of a report telling the effects of the rule changes and
enforcement is important and then individuals speaking their heart and
mind is the way to go.
This is an opportunity. This DATCP board meets every other month with
sometimes meeting every month. I did not get the schedule of meetings.
We need to take every opportunity to bring Raw Milk out in the open. Be
forewarned that DATCP and health department officials are going to attack
us with a vengeance. They will try to paint us as unreasonable fringe
ex-hippies as one lobbyist cautioned me. The way forward is not for the
fainthearted. AS we become more public we are open to more attacks. This
is the game we are in as distasteful as it may be.
Do you have the people organized in your group to act now and take
advantage of this opportunity to be in front of the DATCP board? (I think
visiting this board should be in our strategic plan for raw milk
legalization and we should have someone attending each month.)
We have today and tomorrow to see if anyone can attend. I am willing to
commit to being there for the meeting. Max said he is attending.
Please send this out to your customers and ask your best organizers to
attend and we consumers can meet each other and share information and work
on strategy after the meeting.
The address of the meeting is: 2811 Agriculture Dr. Location: Board Room,
Madison.
Each person who wants to speak needs to fill out an appearance card with
Karen Schultz. Meeting begins at 9am. Karen said it would be helpful if we
arrive by 10am to fill out the appearance card.
Board Room just to the right of the main doors.
Hope to see you in Madison,
Brian Wickert
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