EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for February 14, 2022
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for February 14, 2022! Escondido City is conducting a survey on “local community priorities and City service needs” for the budget as the city is facing “an $8 million budget gap”. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Remember that “budget gap/deficit/efficiency” is the justification used for outsourcing our public library to an out-of-state private company and closing our East branch library.
Events
- Thursday, February 17, 2022, 5:00 PM: Escondido Redistricting Commission Public Hearing via Zoom or In-Person at Escondido Library, 239 S. Kalmia St., Escondido CA 92025. Public comments can be made online at Commission Contact Form, Public Comment Form or via redistricting@escondido.org. Video recordings of past hearings and meetings can be found at Redistricting Documents & Information. More redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Redistricting Presentation is available here.
Future Events
- Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 6:00 PM: Independent Redistricting Commission Meeting via Zoom or In-Person at Escondido Library, 239 S. Kalmia St., Escondido CA 92025. Public comments can be made online at Commission Contact Form, Public Comment Form or via redistricting@escondido.org. Video recordings of past hearings and meetings can be found at Redistricting Documents & Information. More redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Redistricting Presentation is available here.
Escondido Public Services
- Complete Escondido City’s survey on “local community priorities and City service needs” for the budget as the city is facing “an $8 million budget gap” and call for more funding to community-based programs and services. Remember that “budget gap/deficit/efficiency” is the justification used for outsourcing our public library to an out-of-state private company and closing our East branch library. See also Re-imagining Public Safety.
- In-Related News: read-up on Underfunded Libraries Are Critical Infrastructure, 'A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can' and Why the Hell Would You Want to Privatize Libraries?
Escondido Redistricting
- Read-up on Redistricting commission drafts preliminary electoral map for Escondido.
- Comment on Escondido Redistricting 1/27 Preliminary Draft Map (Demographics), which was previously Map Visualization 2C, and Map Visualization 1C, which was drawn on February 3rd. Map visualization from February 10th has not been posted yet. The Commission will vote on a final map on February 23rd to present to the City Council for approval. Previous map visualizations include January 10th, January 13th, Map Visualization 1, Map Visualization 1A, Map Visualization 1B, Map Visualization 2, Map Visualization 2A, Map Visualization 2B, and Map Visualization 2C. See Redistricting Documents & Information for video recordings of past hearings and meetings.
- In-Related News: read-up on Jeff Epp wants to return to Escondido City Hall — as a member of the City Council [and] Dane White, son-in-law of Councilmember Morasco, looking to unseat Mayor McNamara.
Voting Rights & Redistricting
- Read-up on Texas counties reject up to 40 percent of mail-in ballots under restrictive new law, What the Supreme Court's decision on Alabama's maps could mean for the Voting Rights Act and The Supreme Court’s newest attack on voting rights, explained .
- Contact Representative Issa, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and urge them to pass legislation to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 such as the amended H.R.5314, H.R.4/S.4, H.R.1/S.1 and S.2747. Note that Representative Issa voted no on H.R.5314, H.R.1 & H.R.4 which passed the House but was blocked in the Senate. See Support Democracy Reform with Voting Rights Protections.
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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