EscInd: Action Plan for May 13, 2024
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of May 13, 2024! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Events
- Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 10:00 AM: San Diego County Board of Supervisors Operational Plan Presentation at Board Of Supervisors North Chamber Room 310, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 402, San Diego, CA 92101. See County Budget 2024 - 26. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #7 on Financial Report For The Quarter Ended March 31 2024. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, May 16, 2024, 10:00 AM: San Diego County Board of Supervisors Operational Plan Presentation at Board Of Supervisors North Chamber Room 310, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 402, San Diego, CA 92101. See County Budget 2024 - 26. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
Future Events
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda may include CCEA and LS&S Management Agreements. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Actions
Election 2024
- Plan to vote. The Presidential Election will be on November 5, 2024 which will be ~184 days from now. Register to vote if you’re eligible to vote, check your voter registration, sign-up to track your mail ballot and plan to vote. Information is not available yet, but our Escondido municipal election will include District 3 and 4.
- Read-up on IRS Audit Could Cost Trump $100 Million and Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows.
Escondido City
- Read-up on Escondido Community Budget Workshops Spring 2024 Presentation (PDF) and refer to Escondido Discussion 2023 Slides (PDF) and Escondido Discussion 2022 Replay.
- Complete Escondido Community Survey 2024 (15 to 30 minutes) where the City asks us what priorities do we find important and our thoughts on a local cannabis business city measure (which the city is exploring for possible tax revenues), the one-cent sales tax citizen initiative and an infrastructure half-cent county sales tax citizen measure. See prior Escondido Discussions.
- Sign the Citizen's Initiative to raise the sales tax by one cent for the next 20 years. A reader has informed us that signatures from registered votes are being gathered at Escondido Farmers’ Market on Tuesdays, 2:30 PM to sunset located at Heritage Garden Park at Juniper Street between Grand Ave and Valley Parkway. 7,748 signatures are needed and be collected in 180 days to qualify for the upcoming election. See Escondido resident coalition launches ballot initiative to raise sales tax, Escondido citizens pushing to place 1-cent sales tax hike on the ballot and Escondido’s Budget Deficit Has Taken a Toll on the City That May Take Years to Correct.
- In-Related News: read-up on San Diego County more than 134,000 low-income rentals short, report finds and Housing experts say there just aren't enough homes in the U.S.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on Abortion consumes US politics, courts two years after SCOTUS draft leak and For a Louisiana lawmaker, exempting incest and rape from the state's abortion ban is personal.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to codify abortion, contraception and reproductive rights into federal laws such as H.R.782, H.R.3420 and H.R.4303. Note that Representative Issa had previously praised the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and voted against codifying abortion rights. See Codify Abortion Rights and Indivisible's Abortion & Reproductive Freedom.
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