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performance; and built a project management office and aligned IT to deliver district solutions utilizing acommon industry framework, methodology and philosophy.“Jerome is a very strategic thinker who focuses on executional excellence and accountability for results.He puts his objectives and plans in writing and then measures against them. At The Atlanta PublicSchools he insisted on quality and documentation, and really the accountability of everyone,” said SusanObermeier, who worked with Mr. Oberlton as Atlanta Public Schools’ chief strategy officer. “And youknow how with someone very accountability oriented you often think, ‘Oh dread?’ Not with Jerome.Everybody loved to work with him.”Prior to joining Atlanta Public Schools, Mr. Oberlton worked in several capacities at General Electric,most recently as the company’s IT compliance officer. Before that, he worked at Kraft Foods. He beganhis career in IT as a programmer at Amoco Corp. in 1990“Mr. Oberlton comes to City Schools with an extensive background in IT that includes several years withanother large urban public school district that, like City Schools, is in the midst of reform and, like CitySchools, looked to data to drive its reform work and to technology to maximize its reform efforts,” Dr.Alonso said. “Mr. Oberlton’s history of building data warehouses and creating operational and costefficiencies will hugely benefit City Schools. His arrival will help push the district into a new realm ofaccountability and complete focus on student achievement.”Mr. Oberlton holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida A&MUniversity in Tallahassee, FL, and a Masters in Business Administration in Finance and ManagementInformation Systems from DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He completed the Executive LeadershipDevelopment program at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government, and is a member of the MetroAtlanta CIO Council and a program leader for the United Way of Atlanta.“The challenges Baltimore’s leadership is wrestling with are very similar to the challenges we faced inAtlanta. The collection of data and the nimbleness and agility of using data pose a huge set of challenges.My job will be to craft solutions that address those challenges,” Mr. Oberlton said. “I look forward to thework ahead. Besides, determining how to marry technology to the needs of the classroom and to helpstudents perform at higher levels—and particularly in urban education—is just a big interest of mine.”-30-
Executive Summary:The objectives of this study were to show the contribution from the Hay Point port lands coalterminals to the area’s industrial sources of harmful PM10 particulates; how far visible PM10 coaldust is travelling (as measured by North Queensland Bulk Ports); how often it is settling in monitoredresidential areas; and to question extensive further coal port expansion (as planned in the draftQueensland Ports Strategy) given annual average PM10 measurements for the Mackay localgovernment area are close to exceeding the World Health Organisation’s air quality guideline of 20µg/m³ and the hazardous coal dust component of PM10 emissions from the ports would increasesignificantly .Air quality monitoring of dust in Mackay consists of ambient (outside) air quality measurementsreported as average hourly, daily and annual PM10 particulates designed to provide a measure of“average” air quality conditions across the air shed of the Mackay local government area. This isseparate from point and fugitive sources of dust emissions such as those produced from industrialsources, and additional dust deposition monitoring which may be done by an industry. Anothermajor source of particulates, transportation, was not considered in this review.Ambient annual average PM10 particulate dust levels from 2000-2012 at West Mackay monitoringstation were consistently above those monitored in the Brisbane CBD. Mackay’s dust levels wereabove the World Health Organisation guideline from 2000-2009 and remained high, falling justbelow that guideline from 2010-2012 following transfer of the monitoring station to a site morerepresentative of ambient air quality for the Mackay local government area.PM10 particulate emissions from industries in the Mackay local government area are reportedannually by industries exceeding trigger thresholds to the Australian government’s NationalPollution Inventory. The current two coal port terminals, Dalrymple Bay and Hay Point in the HayPoint port lands, contributed twenty-seven per cent of the total industrial sources of these point andfugitive source emissions for 2011-2012.Dust deposition data for the existing Dalrymple Bay and Hay Point coal terminals is collectedmonthly by HLA-Envirosciences Pty Ltd for North Queensland Bulk Ports and analysed in the lab forpercentage of coal dust i.e. visible dark particulates greater than one per cent. Between 2000-2012coal dust deposition was recorded in 98 per cent of the measurements for a residential site at LouisaCreek within a few hundred metres of the Hay Point coal stockpiles, declining to 40 per cent at 2kmfrom the stockpiles and a few per cent at Grasstree Beach 8.25km from the stockpiles.Mackay Conservation Group. Dust Up Report. Oct 2013
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