May 5, 2024

EscInd: Action Plan for May 6, 2024

Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of May 6, 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

• Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #11 on Housing Element Annual Progress Report. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
• Thursday, May 9, 2024, 3:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda has not been posted yet as of May 5, 2024. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here.  Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.

Future Events

• Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. 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 Louisiana won’t immediately get a new majority-Black House district after judges reject it and Federal court puts Louisiana's congressional map on hold.

Escondido City

• 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, Escondido’s Budget Deficit Has Taken a Toll on the City That May Take Years to Correct, Escondido Discussion 2023 Slides 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 think that the city should focuses on. The survey also asks 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.

• In-Related News: read-up on Another City Could Be Ready to Ditch Housing First.

Reproductive Rights

• Read-up on County supervisors OK stockpiling abortion medication in 3-2 vote, Abortion rights: Beverly Hills is showing CA limits and Six-week abortion ban takes effect in Florida.

• 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.