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You are here: Home / Local / City of Lincoln / Many Questions About Chris Beutler Decision to Join ICLEI No.1: Is it Legal?

Many Questions About Chris Beutler Decision to Join ICLEI No.1: Is it Legal?

Originally published January 17, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 1, 2013. 3 Comments

Thanks to Don for the excellent presentation last Monday evening about Sustainable Development. We have only begun distributing the information we’ve discovered in our research on this subject. To see our previous articles, click here. We are currently developing an information page on this topic that will include resources and references. Again, much thanks goes to Don for all of the work he is doing.

One of the pieces of information revealed at the meeting includes a report that the Lincoln Mayor's office announced on November 30 that the City of Lincoln has joined ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability.

On it's website's About page (link above), ICLEI informs that it's former name was "International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives" and explains its 1990 founding and 2003 mission statement changes. In 2003, ICLEI reports, its "mandate" was broadened for the purposes of addressing sustainability issues.

We question the source of ICLEI's mandate, Chris Beutler's decision to enter into an agreement with an international body, whether or not the duly elected members of the City Council were involved in that decision, and if so, how they voted, and we seriously question whether a Nebraska city can lawfully enter into such an agreement as an entity incorporated under the authority of the State of Nebraska.

In addition that list of questions, I have one that is largely rhetorical.

Did Channel 10/11 just do a poor job in reporting on this story or do they agree so much with ICLEI and Chris Beutler's agenda that they purposefully improperly characterized the situation in their story?

The headline: "Lincoln Joins National Organization"

In addition to linking to the 10/11 story, we have uploaded a printable copy to GiN's archive on Scribd. (If you do not have a Scribd account and wish to access the PDF in another way, please use our Contact Form to make a request.)

The Mayor's office contact information is located HERE.

The City Council's contact information is located HERE.

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Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local, Sustainable Development Tagged With: agenda 21, beutler announcement iclei, beutler cleaner greener lincoln, beutler environmentalism, chris beutler, City of Lincoln, city of lincoln budget, city of lincoln issues, federal sovereignty, foreign influences in nebraska, iclei, lincoln joins iclei, media bias, personal freedoms, poor media coverage, state sovereignty, Sustainable Development, united nations

Comments

  1. Gregg Shonka says

    April 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    I sent a link to this and other articles regarding the ICLEI to Coby Mach at Drivetime Lincoln (1400 KLIN), practically begging him to research this! Thanks for all your hard work, God Bless You!!

    Reply
  2. Bob Root says

    June 21, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Check out http://www.agenda21today.com for some great information on Agenda 21 and ICLEI.

    Reply
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