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Th e Door CountyEnvironmental Council News

“Fostering the preservation of Door County’s rich heritage of natural resources for the health, welfare, and spiritual uplift

not only of its inhabitants, but of generations to come.”

Published Quarterly. Copyright © 2020 by the Door County Environmental Council, PO Box 114, Fish Creek, WI 54212

Greta Thunberg Isn’t Just an Activist―She’s a Role Model

March 2020

There’s more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere now than at any time in

human history. Earth has experienced the warmest 20 years on record during the past 22 years. Average wildlife populations have dropped by 60 percent in a little more than 40 years.

Yet who is the loudest voice speaking out today? A 16-year-old Swedish activist named Greta Thunberg. And the only way action will be taken against the threats to our environment is if we begin to have the same intense and zealous mentality as Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg first became known for her activism in 2018 when she spent school days protesting the Swedish parliament for not taking more action against climate change. Since then, she’s risen to worldwide fame as an activist. Not only has she made a

name for herself, but she has also inspired many other youth climate activists―and it’s not just because she’s more interesting, accessible and relatable to youth than Al Gore was.

A large reason for her influence on people is the context of her age. At just 16, she speaks with a moral urgency that is similar to that of Gandhi and Mandela. In contrast to many other climate speakers and activists, she speaks in words that are straightforward, easy to understand, and blunt. Fundamentally, she’s easy to listen to. Her speeches are less fact and

data-based than they are flat-out emotional. In a largely uneducated world, facts and statistics have proven ineffective in spurring people to action.

“You are failing us,” Thunberg has said, “but

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the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you!” Thunberg says it with utter resentment. She uses the pronoun “you” as a weapon, aiming to make listeners realize their responsibility to act.

Few have framed global climate change as a more personal issue than Thunberg has. She’s passionate, uses an authoritative tone and makes people uncomfortable. She views imminent environmental threats as if an intruder is standing outside her door with a weapon, threatening her and her family, and she needs the help of everyone in the world to stop this threat.

In contrast, others seemingly view environmental threats as if someone were to say, “There might be someone out to get you, but if so, he’s hundreds of miles away.” It makes you feel a bit unsteady, but it’s nothing that’s going to make you change your lifestyle. You feel as though someone else will protect you from this threat, so you don’t have to protect yourself.

The question of why we aren’t taking action―and Thunberg is―can be easily explained by psychological processes. According to Sigmund Freud, our brains use unconscious defense mechanisms to protect us from difficult and uncomfortable situations by warding off unpleasant and anxious feelings. Psychology Today says that some of the defense mechanisms that

apply to society’s perception of climate change include denial, rationalization and diffusion of responsibility.

Roughly 20 percent of Americans are “climate-change deniers” who openly deny scientific evidence of the human contribution to climate change and believe it’s a hoax. Others try to rationalize the situation by saying things such as, “If it were a real problem, someone would have done something about it by now” or “If

it were a crisis, why do so many people deny its existence?” Only four in 10 Americans, according to a Washington Post poll taken in September, believe it’s an urgent crisis. Many push their responsibility for environmental advocacy onto others by saying things such as, “If other countries aren’t taking action, why would we?”

Thunberg is significant in all of this because the last thing she’s willing to do is use these psychological

defense mechanisms. Thunberg has Asperger syndrome, a condition that she refers to as a “superpower” because it allows her to be more direct and straightforward about climate change.

The reason why climate change continues to become an even more dangerous and impending threat every day is largely our attitudes and dispositions toward it. Even in her youth, Greta Thunberg should be a role model for adults because of her passionate and emotional approach to dealing with environmental crises. If environmental change is to come, we all need to act as

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advocates, just as Thunberg does.“We need a balance of optimism and outrage,” she said. “We need optimism to keep going and to not give up ... and we need outrage to be able to step outside our comfort zones.”

Thunberg’s talking points are reflective of the views of many of us in the generations that will have to live with what’s left of this planet. The average age of our 115th Congress is the highest of any Congress in recent U.S. history. Most of its members won’t live to experience any of the most catastrophic effects of climate change, so what’s it to them?

But they represent us young people, too. The refusal to act as a nation isn’t just because of the corruption in politics that we’ve had for centuries. It’s worse: it’s personal, selfish, and dire. The World Health Organization has “conservatively” predicted that climate change will result in 250,000 annual deaths between 2030 and 2050, totaling one million fatalities per presidential term.

by Solomon Lindenberg

Solomon Lindenberg is a senior at Gibraltar High School and editor of the school newspaper, the Viking Voice.

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The Door County Environmental Council Position Statement on the Proposed Quarry RV Development Plan

For fifty years, nearly 400 members of the Door County Environmental Council

have worked to protect and preserve our Door County natural resources. Accordingly, the DCEC strongly opposes the 117-unit RV campground being planned for the abandoned quarry above George K. Pinney County Park and Marina. In addition to the RVs, concrete RV pads for Class A motor homes (coaches constructed with heavy duty tour bus frames), along with the possibility and option of 115 single family houses on all but two of these lots, are also being proposed. The question and our concern is: How will this proposed motor coach and housing campground development impact the environment?

In addition to impeding the park’s recreational use, likely diminishing neighboring property values, increasing traffic, and posing safety concerns for walkers, joggers, and bicyclists on Bay Shore Drive, this development will increase density, noise, and light pollution, disrupt wildlife, and pose potential environmental concern with the possibility of sewage leaking from the proposed sanitary waste containment facility consisting of a

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single holding tank located adjacent to Bay Shore Drive.

The proposed site for this development sits on a ledge of porous karst topography high above and a few hundred feet from the bay. The developers have proposed an onsite sanitary waste holding tank of 40,000 gallons that will require, at maximum use, twice daily emptying. It’s unclear whether the system, as sized, is appropriate for intended usage by both the RVs and the single family homes. And, while the system will be required to meet existing codes, systems do fail. Will the developers be responsible for damages, clean up, and cost?

Currently, when it rains, quarry rainwater drains to lower levels. Retention ponds are not perfect. What happens to rainwater runoff contaminated with leaked motor coach oil and transmission and coolant fluids? It drains to lower levels―into the groundwater and eventually the bay.

It appears there will be limited access to the proposed campground. In an emergency, would residents driving large motor coaches be able to successfully and uneventfully evacuate the development while emergency vehicles were entering the development?

As for 117 Class A motor coaches and 115 single family homes on 50 acres, how is this harmonious with the area? This type of development is not compatible with the surrounding area of residences, park land, and marina.

Given the above, the Door County Environmental Council opposes this RV and housing campground development.

The Door County Environmental Council Board of Directors

Hello High Water!

Everyone seems to be asking, why are our Lake Michigan and bay of Green

Bay water levels so incredibly high? People wonder how these high water levels will impact their property values, the environment, the economy, and perhaps the overall quality of life in Door County. What’s causing this, and will the lake and bay water levels ever return to a more normal range? The most honest answer is we just don’t know for sure. But let me try to explain what we do know and what some experts think.

The unprecedented swing in the water level of Lake Michigan from January 2013 to July 2019 has been nearly 6 feet. This fluctuation has been from historically low to historically high water. Lake levels are, of course, affected by seasonal fluctuations, but are primarily governed by three things: precipitation, runoff, and evaporation. According to scientists, it is extremely difficult to forecast water levels over six months, let alone several decades. However, the foremost researchers on Great Lakes hydrology believe climate change is contributing to these steep swings between high and low water levels. These swings, they predict, may become even more pronounced in the future.

“There is no way we can heat the earth, change the moisture budget and not expect it to have an impact on the lake levels,” said Dr. Richard B. Rood, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.

Gauging lake levels, the balance of waters flowing in and out, sounds simple enough. But it’s a complicated equation for scientists

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to apply. While seasonal water fluctuations are routine, the degree of rise and fall hinges on which factors―precipitation, evaporation, and/or runoff―are dominant at the time. Climate change has made precipitation patterns wildly unpredictable. There is no doubt the earth is getting warmer, and for every degree of temperature rise, the atmosphere can hold 4% more moisture. This fact translates to a greater potential for increased precipitation.

Climate change is amplified in the Lake Michigan and Lake Huron regions, as they are already naturally predisposed to fluctuations. Unlike Lakes Ontario and Superior which are regulated by dams and binational regulatory boards, Lakes Michigan and Huron are really one lake that’s connected at the straits of Mackinac, and has no such controls. They consequently have experienced the greatest variation from low to high water of all the Great Lakes. “I think it’s reasonable to expect in the next 10 to 30 years, perhaps longer, one of the main outcomes of climate change might be more variability, higher highs, and lower lows,” Professor Rood said.

As the amount of heat trapping greenhouse gases has spiked over the past century, the Earth’s warmer atmosphere is capable of holding additional moisture which scientists say is resulting in more frequent and severe storms. In fact, across the Great Lakes region, precipitation has increased 14%, and the frequency of heavy storms has risen 35% according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s comprehensive 2018 report on global warming. In the past two years, the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio each have endured a string of 12 consecutive months that have been the wettest in over 124 years.

Lake Michigan and Lake Huron together are the world’s largest lake by surface area. The sprawling lake surface and watershed basin give these two lakes an enormous area to catch rainfall, or in times of drought, more surface area for evaporation. It therefore appears that large water level fluctuations are the future for Lake Michigan and the bay of Green Bay.

Precipitation seems to be the main cause of our high water. We will need a very long stretch of dry weather and some serious evaporation to allow our Door County beaches and submerged piers to reappear. That does not seem likely in 2020 as lake levels continue to rise, but eventually, that will occur. In the meantime, we need to plan on larger than “normal” water level fluctuations in Door County.

By Steve Eatough

This article was adapted from a piece written by Tony Briscoe for the Chicago Tribune.

Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change and Clean Energy in Wisconsin

Here it is February 15, 2020, and Lake Michigan is 17 inches higher than it

was last year at this time.

We are faced with emergency manure spreading measures in Kewaunee County caused by precipitation of over 50 inches in Sturgeon Bay in 2019 compared to the average of 32 inches. These two facts highlight that we are not isolated from a changing climate in our beautiful Door County.

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Most of us have realized we are not going to be saved by federal protection alone and realize that we have to look closer to home for answers to our changing climate. Opportunities abound thanks to technological innovation and our changing perceptions.

We have an election year. Our current governor boldly supports adaptation and mitigation to climate change in spite of straining politics. A recent revisited study by Stanford University’s Professor Mark Jacobson and his team concludes that the principal barriers to 100 percent renewable electricity systems and broader climate solutions are neither technological nor economical, but instead are primarily political, institutional, and cultural.

As Clean Wisconsin’s Scott Blankman recently concludes in his post on Wisconsin’s roadmap to tackling climate change, “The benefits of clean energy to our state—in the form of economic growth, jobs, and healthy communities—mean we also need lawmakers to join the governor in ushering in a clean energy future in Wisconsin.”

Center stage to this transition to a clean energy economy is Governor Evers Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy and Governors’ Climate Change Task Force tasked with “ensuring all electricity consumed within the State of Wisconsin is 100 percent carbon-free by 2050.”

One organization that is in the midst of helping create a roadmap for transitioning to a clean energy economy for Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (Climate Fast Forward), which is all about science-based carbon and carbon equivalent reduction goals and

is democratic, equitable, and just. The Academy’s Climate Forward 2017 Update highlighted the following:

1) Local governments are leading the way. These entities have taken the form of bottom-up solutions to climate and economic challenges. Eau Claire, La Crosse, Madison, and Middleton have adopted resolutions to be 100% renewably powered by 2050.

Beaver Dam is an example of a small community inspired by their Mayor, Becky Glewen, to weatherize, solarize, and replace inefficient heating and cooling systems in their municipal buildings. They are part of a state-sanctioned program and considered an Energy Independent Community that agrees to reach 25% of their energy to come from renewables by 2025. There are 140 communities in Wisconsin that have joined.

Green Bay has recently created a Sustainability Commission, and the Oneida Nation has created a resolution recognizing climate change as a long-term threat to cultural values. They are resolved to working to adapt and mitigate climate change by honoring the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Oneida Nation in 2018 installed solar on six facilities within the reservation and will provide 800 kilowatts of solar-electric power. The project is anticipated to generate approximately $80,000 per year in electricity savings, but more importantly it will provide a reduction in carbon dioxide to the tune of 700 metric tons per year, according to Michael Troge, Energy Project Manager.

2) Businesses and utilities are planning for a low carbon future. Advocate Aurora Health Systems has pledged to

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rely on 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Gundersen Healthcare System, with headquarters located in La Crosse, is using 100% renewable energy and is carbon free. They are the poster child for “doing well by doing good” sustainably in the healthcare field.

KI Furniture also deserves local recognition for using 480 solar panels to generate 42% of their electrical needs in their Corporate Design and Development Center in Green Bay as well as for the energy efficiency efforts of their buildings and facilities.

Wisconsin Public Service has retired the Pulliam Power Plant in Green Bay and plans to collaboratively contract to use a 150 MW solar development in Two Creeks, while WPPI, the Sturgeon Bay electrical provider, is to purchase power from 100 MW Point Beach Solar Energy Center.

3) Solar is taking off. The cost of solar power and wind energy has decreased―dropping in the last decade with the cost of delivered electricity from new wind energy farms by 69% and the cost of delivered electricity from new utility-scale solar farms by 88%. Utility scale solar and wind is cost-competitive with traditional coal and natural gas power plants.

“WEC Energy Group produces about half of the electricity used in Wisconsin. Executive Chairman Gale Klappa said, “[W]e made real progress in reducing our carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, we are on track to exceed our goal of 40% reduction below 2005 levels by the year 2030. Now we expect to achieve that goal by 2023.” (RENEW Wisconsin)

4) Wisconsin is falling behind its neighbors in adopting policies and making

investments that support efficiency and renewable energy, a more diversified transportation system, innovative and affordable utility models, long-term planning, and cutting-edge research and education.

Another noteworthy organization is RENEW Wisconsin, which is dedicated to building a strong, healthy, and more vibrant Wisconsin through advancement of renewable energy.

Locally we have multiple complementing environmental organizations and groups that are advancing a clean energy economy and bringing education on climate issues. Of notoriety to many of you who are reading this is the Door County Climate Change Coalition. It is hoped that a newly formed chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby will also be a powerful advocate at various levels of government, but mostly focused on bipartisan legislation regarding a Carbon Fee and Dividend policy for households.

Wisconsin’s Green Tier Communities program is being proposed at a county level. Silver SolSmart Designation (streamlining a solar program in Egg Harbor) is an important advancement, and soon there will be an announcement of a group purchase opportunity of solar energy systems.

We are also lucky to have businesses like Lake Michigan Wind and Sun, which has diligently worked to bring renewable energy to Door County over many years, and Virge Temme Architecture, which is leading local and national efforts to build energy efficient buildings.

We have an abundance of opportunities

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Clean Water Lobby Days

DCEC Board Member Renee McAllister and Administrator Lora Jorgensen

traveled to Madison on Thursday, January 30, to attend Clean Water Lobby Days. There they joined over 250 other environmentalists from around the state to speak with our representatives regarding the importance of voting for legislation to protect our surface and drinking/groundwater. Some of the current bills that are in both the senate and assembly address:

• (SB423/SB424) replacing lead pipes/hydro-infrastructure in schools and day care facilities;

• (SB302/AB321) regulating and banning forever chemicals such as PFAs (found in non-stick cookware and fire extinguishing foams);

• (SB723/AB790) increasing funding for county conservationist positions,

watershed management, and grants to farms for infrastructure upgrades, erosion control, and implementing sustainable practices such as cover crops and no-till practices.

DCEC Administrator Jorgensen led a group of twenty lobbyists from Senate District 1 (Door and Kewaunee Counties and parts of Brown, Manitowoc, Outagamie, and Calumet Counties) and facilitated a meeting with Senator Andre Jacque, who is currently a sponsor of SB423 and SB723.

Immediately following, Lora led a group of ten lobbyists from Assembly District 1 (Door and Kewaunee Counties, parts of Brown and Manitowoc Counties) and facilitated a meeting with Assemblyman Joel Kitchens. Kitchens is currently a sponsor of AB790 and a co-sponsor of SB423/424.

If environmental protection and clean water are passions of yours, we would love to have you join us! We invite our members to participate in future legislative events. If you are interested, please email us at contact@dcec-wi.org, and we will keep you updated on future legislative days.

By Lora Jorgensen

Assembly District 1 Representatives with Joel Kitchens

here in Door County to influence and protect our inspiring home. It starts with conversations with those friends, families, and affiliations we all have and leads to action, including voting.

By John Hermanson

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Retired Executive Director Jerry Viste

Longtime DCEC Executive Director Jerry Viste died on Nov. 24, 2019, at

the age of 85. Jerry Viste joined DCEC as a board member in 1980 when a coal fire power plant was proposed for Sturgeon Bay, and the Viste farm in Nasewaupee was threatened with becoming an ash disposal site for the plant. The plans were dropped.

Because Jerry was a dairy farmer and so knowledgeable about environmental stewardship, the DCEC Board hired him as the first executive director in 1986. Having been a teacher and a veteran, Jerry used his leadership skills to guide the DCEC for 28 years on a mission we still follow to this day: fostering the preservation of Door County’s rich heritage of natural resources for the health, welfare, and spiritual uplift, not only of its inhabitants, but of generations to come.

Jerry had an innate understanding of the interconnectivity of the air, water, land, food, animals, and people that embody this community. His land ethic ran as deep as his multigenerational farm.

Jerry sought to teach people about the riches that surround us in Door County and to never harm those natural resources in exchange for money.

Under Jerry’s leadership, DCEC was often at the forefront of many contemporary issues. As an educational nonprofit, DCEC brought in a variety of speakers on a myriad of topics, often before the general public

had any knowledge of the issues. These are just a few of the subjects perused by this champion of conservation:

• A weekend of sustainable agriculture practices in 1990;

• Northeast Wisconsin fractured karst bedrock and its susceptibility to contamination;

• The dangers of the proliferation of leaking holding tanks;

• The riparian rights of waterfront property owners;• The dangers of invasive species from the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Chicago Sanitary Canal;• The importance of protecting wetlands for clean drinking water;• A well-testing program for individual homeowners throughout Door County;• Prohibition of water diversions through the Great Lakes Compact;

• The dangers of phosphorus and nitrate runoff from harmful agricultural practices;

• Smart growth planning instead of urban sprawl;

• The value of the State of Wisconsin’s Public Trust Doctrine.

Jerry often said his two proudest accomplishments with the DCEC were the formation of the Door County Land Trust and the protection of the critical habitat of the Hines Emerald Dragonfly.

So many of the professionals brought in to speak on these subjects held Jerry in high regard and had such admiration for his years of dedication and vast knowledge.

Jerry Viste (1934-2019)

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Letter from the Administrator

As we begin 2020, the DCEC has taken the time to reflect on the past decade,

what issues we have focused on, and how it aligns with our mission in the future. We have spent a great deal of time focusing on clean water, zoning and development, and the protection of endangered species in Door County, all of which continue to be “top of mind” for us.

Looking forward, we plan on continuing our efforts in these areas, as well as new issues that arise. Some of our prime directives for 2020 are: sustainable development, well monitoring and water testing, reducing our carbon footprint, sustainable tourism, wetland/shoreline protection, nonpoint and agricultural runoff, and educating the public about the effects all of these things have on Door County’s fragile karst topography.

With a new decade comes some useful and important updating within our organization. Keep an eye on our website, as we are currently in the process of updating it with our 2020 Events Calendar, new information for current topics and issues that we are working on, links to resources, and volunteer opportunities for our members! We are also using social media as a way to connect with our members. If you have not already done so, please “like us” on Facebook (DCwiEnvironmentalcouncil) and on Instagram (#doorcountyevironmentalcouncil).

We look forward to continuing to serve our members through Advocacy, Education and Action!

Lora Jorgensen

For decades, Jerry sought to make people appreciate the riches that surround them in the natural beauty of Door County. For Jerry, true wealth lies in clean air and water and in the healthy land and its people, not in a big bank account.

In many ways Jerry was an ordinary man; a farmer, a veteran, a musician, a father of five, but he was a man of extraordinary character.

We will truly miss our dear friend and colleague and his vast knowledge and dedication to the environment.

By Eileen Andera

Volunteers are needed for Highway 42 cleanup in the spring. Please watch our website, our Facebook page, or call 920-743-6003 for details.

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DCEC LeadershipPRESIDENT: Mike Bahrke, Ellison BayFIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: Steve Eatough, Sister BaySECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: Ryan Heise, JacksonportSECRETARY: Paul Leline, Baileys HarborTREASURER: Eileen Andera, Sturgeon BayDIRECTORS: Dorothy Anderson, Liberty Grove John Beck, Sevastopol Jean-Rene Gehan, Gills Rock Ryan Heise, Jacksonport Renee McAllister, Sturgeon BayHONORARY DIRECTORS: Tony Haswell James Ingwersen Flora Langlois Bob Merline Carol Sills Karen Wilson Libby ZimmermanADMINISTRATOR: Lora Jorgensen, ForestvilleBOOKKEEPER: Nancy Raye, Sturgeon BayCOMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR: Kaethe Gutierrez, Sturgeon Bay

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Your Government RepresentativesGovernor Tony Evers 115 East Capitol Madison, WI 53702 (608)266-1212 Email: Eversinfo@wisconsin.gov www.evers.wi.gov

State Senator Andre Jacque Room 7 South PO Box 7882, State Capitol Madison, WI 53707-7882 (608)266-3512 Email: sen.jacque@legis.wisconsin.gov www.legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/01/jacque

State Representative Joel C. Kitchens Room 10 West P.O. Box 8952 Madison, WI 53708-8952 (608)266-5350 or (888)482-0001 Fax: (608)282-3601 Email: rep.kitchens@legis.wisconsin.gov www.legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/01/kitchens

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson 328 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510 (202)224-5323 Milwaukee office: 414-276-7282 Fax: (202)228-6965 www.ronjohnson.senate.gov

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin 709 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington DC 20510 (202)224-5653 (800)247-5645 Madison office: (608)264-5338 www.baldwin.senate.gov

U.S. Respresentative Mike Gallagher 1007 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington DC 20515 (202)225-5665 Green Bay office: (920)301-4500 https://gallagher.house.gov

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Greta Thunberg Isn’t Just an Activist—She’s a Role Model ............................................... 1

The Door County Environmental Council Position Statement on the Proposed Quarry RV Development Plan .............................................................................................................. 3

Hello High Water! .................................................................................................................... 4

Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change and Clean Energy in Wisconsin ......... 5

Clean Water Lobby Days ......................................................................................................... 8

Retired Executive Director Jerry Viste .................................................................................. 9

Letter from the Administrator ............................................................................................... 10

DCEC Leadership .................................................................................................................... 11

Your Government Representatives ......................................................................................... 11