Honorable Members of the Committee, my name is Paul Mullin, City Treasurer for Petersburg. I speak on behalf of the Treasurer's Association of Virginia, we would like to see lines 147 - 151 stricken, regarding Treasurers in SB645. The Governor already has the authority to ask the local circuit court to remove the treasurer through VA Code 58.1-3164. There is no justification for placing such sweeping, completely open-ended power over elected officials in the hands of an unelected appointee of appointees. The Treasurers of the Commonwealth of Virginia request that you strip this verbiage out of Senate Bill 645. Thank you for your time.

This is in regards to any solar bills, or bills to remove county level permitting rights. It's unethical to continue down this ridiculous electric energy path. This isn't a replacement for fossil fuels, it just causes the same problems plus more, than data centers. It's weak expensive energy, and has nothing to do with benefiting the environment. The narrative supporting this is fraudulent but still gets used. Common sense would tell us not to dump trillions $$ into a foreign controlled electric energy (China monopolizes manufacturing, foreign land leases) when all the politicians keep saying the electric grid is stressed but apparently our politicians seem more focused on the money grab then caring for Virginia's energy needs, environment or well-being if Virginia citizens. Any politician saying industrial solar is clean and better than "dirty energy" is either misled, ignorant or corrupt. Cherry picking data to support that narrative is deceptive to Virginians. The carbon footprint on industrial solar contradicts policy narratives reducing carbon. Even yellen admitted it was just a financial investment- so why are politicians and solar companies, environmental groups and politicians still lying to the public? By pushing bills like this you endanger our poorest communities because they won't be able to vote themselves away from this financial trainwreck. Any politician supporting this will be remembered for weakening Virginia and industrializing our land and oceans with this dangerous weak electric energy experiment.