EDITOR: I attended the recent city council meeting with a group
of citizens to support Mori Struve, city deputy director of public
works operations in his request to the council for a small sum of
money to train his workers in alternative pest management in the
city of Morgan Hill.
EDITOR:
I attended the recent city council meeting with a group of citizens to support Mori Struve, city deputy director of public works operations in his request to the council for a small sum of money to train his workers in alternative pest management in the city of Morgan Hill.
I have been active in working towars the county ordinance requiring the use of alternatives to toxic pesticides wherever possible and to train their maintenance people in application and control on all county grounds. They have hired a director who has done remarkable things in the past few months. His name is Naresh Duggal. He has extended an invitation for all the cities in the county to participate in training their groundskeepers in non toxic alternatives. Mr. Struve attended the last county meeting and is very enthusiastic about implementing this in the City of Morgan Hill.
I want to thank Mr. Stuve, all the supporters who attended the meeting with me and the city council for their interest in and support of this proposal. As I mentioned in the meeting, the Central Valley now has the distinction of housing the five most polluted cities in the United States (not just California) as a result of toxic pesticides and fertilizers used by the corporate farms and the burning of fossil fuels on Highways 5 and 99.
My hope is that Santa Clara Valley will be spared joining this infamous group. I was especially impressed by CouncilmanGreg Sellers’ response. He wanted to get this going sooner than January. I would suggest that Morgan Hill write its own ordinance so integrated pest management in this city can become a requirement rather than a suggestion.
Natasha Wist, Morgan Hill
