Who Is Served?

I am rather bummed to be unable to attend the SLO Green Build presentation tonight. I really, really wanted to attend. And why I can't isn't relevant. But I'll be curious to find out who did attend and how did they find out about it? Was it not for the general public? How would Los Osos citizens get onto the MailChimp list with the announcement of the meeting? (I have been to other very informative events of theirs which is presumably how I got the e-mail as I left mine on a list.) Looking at their online calendar which anyone can view, this looks to be a regular meeting, no details are anywhere that I can find on their website, but on THIS particular topic, is it really "regular?"

The e-mail announcement made it sound like this was a meeting to educate Los Osos Prohibition Zone residents in helping us to achieve water use efficiency and conservation. And for us 4,200 septic tank owners, to learn how we might benefit the groundwater with their reuse with rain runoff instead of abandoning them. And this is a topic of much interest to many of us. We are sitting on the only water will have (discounting our limited rainfall), so conserving it is a message that is important to us all and bears repetition until everyone over the basin has heard it.

Will working parents drive to a San Luis Obispo hotel with a no-host bar? Will older people perhaps without much in the way of transportation attend this meeting in SLO? Was this meeting publicized on either the SLO County Los Osos wastewater website, the Dig Los Osos website or spoken about at the last Los Osos CSD meeting (or even tweeted by Dig Los Osos)? No, it wasn't. So maybe I have spilled the beans on this, my bad.

I hope that there will be a future meeting on this topic better aimed at Los Osos' PZ residents which will be held here in our town, at one of the usual venues, and at 7:00 p.m.. I imagine that this information will get published in a County mailer like the others we have received on the sewer project. But the more ways and the different approaches that we can have to this very important topic will be the most likely way to achieve optimum results.