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26. Establishing a Two Year Moratorium on Drones in Berkeley
From: Peace and Justice Commission
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution adopting a two year moratorium on drones in Berkeley.
The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission sent this to the Council last June! Council promised, at its Worksession on Drones in April, to pursue a more comprehensive Policy on Drones. Yet it never voted on the comprehensive recommendation the Commission sent it before the Worksession and it has not taken a next step toward working on the issues to create a drone policy in Berkeley.
Here is the link to that recommended policy:
1. a. Drone Policy for the City of Berkeley
From: Peace and Justice Commission
It is unfortunate that Council, so far, has not taken a next step to work on this yet.
The proposed recommendation “Establishing a Two Year Moratorium on Drones in Berkeley” that Council will consider Tuesday night, gives it an opportunity to place a band-aid on this potentially critical wound, for two years, while it figures out a grand plan. More and more, drones are and will be filling the skies. It will be easier to regulate them now, sooner than later. The new guidelines that the FAA is proposing were just released this week. We do not know if or when they will be implemented. But they were originally intended to take effect by the end of this year.
Whether or not you can attend the meeting, you can contact the Mayor and the eight City Councilmembers and urge them to vote to Establish a Two Year Moratorium on Drones and to then put some time and energy into the details of the issues, as they promised to do at the end of the Workshop on Drones last April 29th, in order to have a more comprehensive plan for a Drone Policy in Berkeley. Their contact info (email addresses and phone numbers) is here: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/City_Council__Roster.aspx
Thank you.
In Peace and Resistance,
Sincerely,
Bob Meola, Vice-Chairperson, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission