SUP Status Update: Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Don't Forget!! VOTE Today!

Still time to vote. Polls close at 7:00 PM. Most Westchester Neighbors vote at Garner Elementary School on Polo Road. There is a school board race between Steve Pryor and Tim Johnson. A City Council race in District 3 (not our district) between Bill Nash and Bill Thorn. And a school bond election as well.

If you don't know where to vote go to the Dallas County Elections Web site. Fill in your Precinct # or various other items to find your place to vote today. It will also let you know if you are in the system and accurately registered to vote in Grand Prairie, TX.

Click Here to Find Your Voting Place. Now, go forth and vote.

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* Drivers must have ability to maintain required D.O.T. log books

Holy Cow!! IMPORTANT UPDATE

Click Here to Read this IMPORTANT UPDATE:  Biblical Reference to Matthew 5:16: Dallas Drilling Blog

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  Why is this highly-regarded Highland Park realtor  fracking Grand Prairie's Trailwood Neighborhood??

Jeffrey A. Barnes

Principal of Alpha-Barnes Realty

12720 Hillcrest Road,  Suite 400

Dallas Texas 75230

(Below) Shale Gas Lease Between 

Matthew 516, LTD

12720 Hillcrest Road, Suite 400

Dallas, Texas 75230

and

 Chesapeake (2009)

Click Here to View Leasing Information on the Texas Railroad Commission Web site for the Barnes Assembly A Permit (scroll down to the bottom where it says, Attachments...click on the P-12 Form.)

 (Above) Barnes Assembly A Well 3H

Four (4) Individual Tracts Matthew 516, LTD (Approximately 50 Acres of the 256 Acre Pooled Unit)

Link to Shale Gas Lease between Chesapeake and Matthew 516, LTD (AKA Alpha-Barnes Realty)

Borough E-Mail Moves to the Cloud Today!

Today might have seemed just like another rainy Wednesday to you. But it was a BIG day for me. After months of research, planning, preparation and living through "co-existence", today, May 4, 2011 the on-premises exchange (e-mail) server was shut down, hopefully for the final time. I crossed my fingers after shutting the server down and was elated to see mail flowing normally. After a tweak here and there other services that we have all come to rely on such as fax-scan-copy to email, unified messaging and help desk work orders were all up and in service as well.

The magic of the cloud is this. Without having to maintain a mail server and replacing it on average every 4 years at a cost of $20,000 the Borough now has more efficient mail services including enhanced security, superior data protection, liability protection and more ways than ever of connecting in to our email services.

Some of these enhancements include

• 14 days back-up of email is expanded to 10 year compliance archiving.

• As opposed to our email residing on one server at our facility, our email is written simultaneously to 6 "department of defense" certified data centers located at various locations across the United States.

• Enhanced liability protection because “open records” rules require local government to maintain files, including email for information and court requests. The compliance archiving will protect our government because these files will accessible upon request.

• Built-in spam filtering as opposed to having to pay a third party for this protection.

• Our partnership with Microsoft will keep the borough up to date with the highest standards of office productivity while controlling cost.

• The Borough has an information technology staff of one. Moving the e-mail service to Microsoft’s cloud will continue to support maintaining a minimal staff while providing effective technology services.

There are many more exciting things on the horizon in reference to our move to Microsoft’s Cloud like Microsoft 365.
Standby for more news from cloud and enjoy. Boy is it comfortable up here.

The "Usama bin Laden" Virus

Hackers, Spammers and Scammers all love a BIG story, and there certainly is no bigger news item now then the recent take down of Public Enemy Number 1, Usama bin Laden. These hackers and other bad eggs are using this news story to intice people into downloading a file in order to watch a video. This is a HOAX and if you follow the link, download a file from one of these messages you will infect your computer, or become a spamming machine. This hoax is especially active on Facebook at this time.

Be aware that the United States Government has not released any photos or video from their recent operation.

Often the message, either through an email or a social networking site such as Facebook will have a link to a website it wants to redirect you to. Often stating it's an "official source", such as CNN. This is a ploy. Ignore it.

Also be aware that even the best anti-virus software can not prevent a human being from clicking on and downloading an infected file.

Here is the official FBI news release in respect to this recent hoax.

FRACking to Commence Tomorrow W/O Rule 37 Ruling

So, it really was just a Dog and Pony Show? Wow.  This must be one of the purest examples of that ever seen in Texas History.

Chesapeake appears to be all primed and ready to go forward with the FRAC Job on Barnes Assembly A Well 3H ~ even though a DECISION HAS NOT BEEN MADE by the Railroad Commission on the Rule 37 Waiver Hearing conducted on February 1, 2011 in Austin!  Members of the Trailwood community all made it to Austin on that terrible day of ice and snow and did an incredible job of representing themselves and speaking up for their right to NOT SIGN a mineral lease with Chesapeake.

In case you haven't seen or read the Transcript, click here to see it.  Westchester-Grand Prairie Community Alliance members paid the rather pricey fee to obtain the transcript. 

We continue to be bewildered by our Texas Railroad Commission, our City of Grand Prairie AND, of course, as always, Chesapeake.

Pray for us.  Thank you.