EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 15, 2022
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for August 15, 2022! The General Election will be Tuesday, November 8, 2022 and will include 7 state ballot measures along with Escondido Municipal Election. Check your voter registration and register to vote if you’re eligible to vote.
Events
- Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 9:00 AM: San Diego County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting at Board Of Supervisors North Chamber Room 310, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 402, San Diego, CA 92101. Agenda includes Item #21 on COVID-19 Response and Item #23 on emergency measures to prevent jail deaths. 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, August 17, 2022, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #8 on Center for Art Management Agreement. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Voting Plan
- Check your voter registration and register to vote if you’re eligible to vote.
- Plan to vote. The General Election will be Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Mail ballots will be mailed to all voters starting October 8th and early in-person voting will start on October 10th.
- Read-up on Escondido City Council puts term limit, salary measures on November ballot.
- Explore San Diego Registrar Election Information and Escondido Election 2022 (scroll down to “Candidate Information by District” and “Ballot Measures” section) Note that the Escondido Municipal Election will include the following candidates (so far): Paul "Mac" McNamara and Dane White for Mayor, Consuelo Martinez and Mike Johnson-Palomares for City Council District 1, Joe Garcia and Jeff Griffith for City Council District 2 (both districts recently re-districted). City ballot measures include: ¾ cent sales tax, term limits & treasure compensation.
- In-Related News: read-up on Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show.
Homelessness
- Read-up on Parking lot for homeless people opens in East County.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask for homeless services and programs such as a creation of a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa along with an expansion & more collaboration with San Diego County Mobile Crisis Response Teams. See Illegal Commune in Foreclosed Escondido Home Evicted, Residents Now Homeless.
Libraries & LGBTQ+ Rights
- Read-up on Upset over LGBTQ books, a Michigan town defunds its library in tax vote, Residents of a small Iowa town criticized their library’s LGBTQ staff and their displaying of LGBTQ-related books until most of the staff quit. Now, the town’s library is closed for the foreseeable future, A Mom’s Campaign to Ban Library Books Divided a Texas Town — and Her Own Family, and A [Solana Beach] school district was given LGBTQ-affirming kids’ books. Then parents objected.
- Share Preventing Censorship of LGBT Information in Public School Libraries and Book bans won't stop these kids' authors from telling stories of trans youth.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass the Equality Act H.R.5/S.393 to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Representative Issa voted no on H.R.5 but the bill passed the House. See Support LGBTQ+ Rights with the Equality Act of 2021.
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com, and our sister group is at Escondido Indivisible on Facebook. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com and @EscInd50 on Twitter. 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.
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