EscInd: Action Plan for May 20, 2024
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of May 20, 2024! We'll be on break for the next week or so. Enjoy the rest of May!
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 Item #7 on CCEA Agreement and Item #8 on Fiscal Year 2024-25 Operating Budget Briefing. See Preliminary Fiscal Year 24/25 Operating Budget. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda may include LS&S Management Agreement, Municipal Election and Community Investment Initiative. 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. 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 Voter registration drives cut back after Republican state laws and The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Louisiana's redistricting plan.
Escondido City
- Read-up on City Council Meeting Agenda Item #8 on Fiscal Year 2024-25 Operating Budget Briefing and Preliminary Fiscal Year 24/25 Operating Budget. From agenda:
"To address the predicted structural budget gap for the upcoming fiscal year, Departments were directed to submit their FY2024/25 General Fund operating budget at the same level as the prior year, FY2023/24, while prioritizing the City Council’s Essential Services and Council Priorities".
- 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 Discussion 2023 Slides (PDF) and Escondido Discussion 2022 Replay.
- In-Related News: read-up on How San Diego’s Safe Sleeping Sites Are Faring on Housing.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on Louisiana attempts to criminalize unprescribed possession of abortion pills and Alabama hospital to stop IVF services at end of the year due to "litigation concerns".
- 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.
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com. And feel free to forward our newsletter to interested parties! If you were forwarded this letter, you can subscribe here, and check the archive here.