Complete Streets Means 
More Government Intrusion

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Judy Tankink, Great Falls Tea Party Patriots

National groups such as Complete Streets (http://www.completestreets.org/tag/training/) and ACHIEVE NACCHO (as outlined in the grant), have training programs teaching their members how to pressure for redevelopment, and training candidates for public office.                              *Elected Officials in Red           *Public Employees in Blue CHART Team travel to Action Institute Convention in Atlanta in April 2012 Airline Ticket Not Applicable Lodging Per Diem Ground Travel Cost per Traveler Alicia Thompson, Executive Director City-County Health Dept. $ 703.20 $  ‐ $ 595.84 $ 255.00 $ 6.00 $ 1,560.04 Trudi Schmidt, HD 22 $ 713.20 $  ‐ $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 1,370.08 SUBTOTAL $ 2,930.12 Group Purchase $6,709.90 $ 271.30       $ 6,981.20 Tom Figarelle, MSU     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Bill Bronson, City Commssioner     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Jesse O'Hara, HD 18     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Kathy Hill, Benefis     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Patty Rearden, Park and Rec.     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Jenn Reichelt, Deputy City Mgr.     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Erin Schermele, KRTV     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Becky Nelson, Foothills  Christian School and Rivers Edge Trail     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Steve Malicott, Chamber of Commerce     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 Jody Murray, Great Falls Public Schools     $ 446.88 $ 204.00 $ 6.00 $ 656.88 SUBTOTAL $ 13,550.00 TOTAL COST $ 16,480.12   Coaches for the Achieve Grant Meeting in Atlanta February 21-23 Flight, Hotel and Ground Travel Pkg. Per Diem ($131/EA)   TOTAL Alicia Thompson, Executive Director & Patty Rearden, Park & Rec $2,538.84 $262.00     $2,800.34   $19,280.46 spent on the two trips

CONTRADICTION AFTER CONTRADICTION!!!  KRTV Posted: May 4, 2012 6:57 PM “Last week, a group of city and county leaders from Cascade County attended a conference in Atlanta to figure out the best ways to put the county's ACHIEVE grant to use and create a healthier community. One of the hot topics at the conference was Complete Streets.”  Tribune  April 25, 2012 County officials, including Great Falls City Commissioner Bill Bronson, deputy City Manager Jen Reichelt, and state legislators Jesse O'Hara and Trudi Schmidt, are tasked with creating a community action plan while learning strategies on creating a healthier infastructure.  Among a variety of ideas being hashed through this week, the team has agreed their number one goal is to pass the "complete streets" initiative. Several successful "ACHIEVE" communities have adopted the complete streets plan. Public Meeting 5/23/12 When specifically asked by a member of the audience why it was necessary to send 12 high-level leaders to an all-expense paid trip to Atlanta in May (ACHIEVE grant), Ms. Reichelt stated that this was a trip for Get Fit Great Falls – there was no discussion of Complete Streets and this didn’t have anything to do with Complete Streets. "One of the hot topics at the conference was Complete Streets. " KRTV Reichelt said the program is not opposed to motor vehicles yet a recent headline says   “Car-free living” with a photo of Ms. Reichelt 5/18/12 Headline Tribune The headline has  been changed online to read: "Program would help Great Falls bikers and walkers" Contradiction  after  Contradiction!

Please read about Complete Streets in Great Falls

Some may have never heard the term “complete streets” or “walkable communities” so allow me to enlighten you. The “Complete Streets” policy says “it will serve to provide safe access for all users including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and bus riders.” Sounds harmless, right? There’s more. It also says the benefits include “encouraging walking and bicycling, eases transportation mobility, encourages children to become more physically active along with reducing air emissions from single occupancy vehicles.”

 By now you may be asking how does providing safe access to roads translate into reducing single occupancy vehicles? Because the “complete streets” initiatives aren’t about adding curbs and sidewalks (which indeed are needed to accommodate pedestrians and the disabled) as much as about declaring an all-out war on cars. Like “complete streets,” “walkable communities” is code for the United Nations’ Agenda 21 initiatives that seek to abolish private property, reduce the carbon footprint of humans, restrict mobility, and basically control what we eat, how many children we can have, how we travel, and where we can live, work, and play -- initiatives which are already being implemented through ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in over 600 cities nationwide and in 178 countries worldwide.

Great Falls is now being targeted by groups trying to push this into our community. Investigate this for yourself by going to their website at:

Cascade City-County Health Department

    “In January 2012, City-County Health Department was one of 15 communities chosen for the ACHIEVE program. The opportunity to become an ACHIEVE community is a chance for CCHD, working with other local groups like Get Fit Great Falls, to help prevent chronic disease in Cascade County. Several objectives and strategies have already been outlined in the Community Health Improvement Plan, the Downtown Master Plan and various community employee wellness programs. Being an ACHIEVE community gives us the additional resources to accomplish all these goals”

Let’s get this straight, this is about personal property rights – plain and simple. This should be exposed for what it is -- an anti-car, anti-property rights Agenda 21 scheme. However, some Montana cities have already adopted a 'complete streets' policy at the local level. It’s implemented in Billings, where Council members were, understandably, concerned and bewildered with the county and state’s interpretation of Complete Streets as “inflexible” with “predetermined design goals.”

The policy grows government bureaucracy.  For example, some cities add full-time Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinators, Sustainable Transportation Coordinators, and multiple other agencies for oversight.

It all sounds nice enough, but the part they leave out is that part of the plan is to reduce auto lanes to make way for bikes and pedestrians. It’s not truly about offering more choices, but government deciding for you that cars are bad and cycling and walking are better alternatives to driving in your car. So under the guise of “sustainable transportation,” the real motive is to force people out of their cars and onto their feet or bikes to get around.

They want to make the streets narrower. Only a government bureaucrat would call shrinking the number of auto lanes and replacing them with bike lanes an “efficient” roadway.

What can you expect if the Complete Streets is implemented in Great Falls? 

ü   Two lane roadways  in each direction would now be one lane each way for autos-- with a dedicated bike lane in the space once used by autos. This results in traffic congestion.

ü   Eminent domain has been used in other cities throughout the US in order to expand and to add hike and bike trails and to expand a parks.

ü    Environmental studies for bike and pedestrian facilities will increase.

ü   Many of agencies repeatedly tell us there’s no money to fix potholes or expand our existing roads but we apparently have plenty of money for this?

ü    First responders such as fire and ambulance will have a harder time navigating narrower streets.

ü    Don’t even think about parking on narrow streets. Street parking will create road hazards.

ü    Yard waste and garbage cans cannot be safely placed on the street for pickup anymore.

ü  What is the cost to do all of these unnecessary changes? 

'Way to coerce people out of their cars'
Getting the picture yet? There’s a war on cars and politicians and bureaucrats are putting us on a “road diet” to force you out of your car and onto a hike & bike trail to help “solve” congestion. But is biking and walking really a practical solution for your daily commute and do you want your road taxes being used to expand roads for bikes only with no similar expansion for auto lanes?  A larger agenda is at play and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood wants gas taxes to fund non-motorized transportation: “It is a way to coerce people out of their cars. About everything we do around here is government intrusion in people's lives...So have at it.” 

RNC Resolution Exposing United Nations Agenda 21

WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; and,

WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local “sustainable development” policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other “Green” or “Alternative” projects; and

WHEREAS, this United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called “sustainable development” views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment; and,

WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment which would be accomplished by socialist/communist redistribution of wealth; and,

WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy National sovereignty is deemed a social injustice; now therefore be

RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations Agenda 21 and hereby exposes to the public and public policy makers the dangerous intent of the plan; and therefore be it further

RESOLVED, that the U.S. government and no state or local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty in that it has never been endorsed by the (U.S.) Senate, and therefore be it further

RESOLVED, that the federal and state and local governments across the country be well informed of the underlying harmful implications of implementation of United Nations Agenda 21 destructive strategies for “sustainable development” and we hereby endorse rejection of its radical policies and rejection of any grant monies attached to it, and therefore be it further

RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of the Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, all Republican candidates for President who qualify for RNC sanctioned debates, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.

Chief Sponsor:
Helen Van Etten
Republican National Committeewoman for Kansas
Co-Sponsors:Carolyn McLarty
Republican National Committeewoman for Oklahoma
Kim Lehman
Republican National Committeewoman for Iowa
Paul Reynolds
Republican National Committeeman for Alabama
Demetra DeMonte
Republican national Committeewoman for Illinois
Solomon Yue
Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Donna Cain
Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Cindy Costa
Republican National Committeewoman for South Carolina
John Sigler
Republican State Chairman for Delaware
Steve Scheffler
Republican National Committeeman for Iowa
Peggy Lambert
Republican National Committeewoman for Tennessee
Jim Bopp
Republican National Committeeman for Indiana
Bruce Ash
Republican National Committeeman for Arizona
DeMarus Carlson
Republican National Committeewoman for Nebraska

What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?

More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.