EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for January 23, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for January 23, 2023! 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. Happy Lunar New Year!
Events
- Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 6:00 PM: Special EUHSD Board Meeting on Escondido Union High School District Service Center, Board Room, 302 North Midway Drive, Escondido, CA 92027. Agenda includes Item #4 on Interviews and selection of candidate to fill Governing Board vacancy in District Area 4 which includes Escondido High School and Orange Glen High School. Live Broadcast of the meeting will be on YouTube. Public comments may be made via E-Comment Form.
- Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 4:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #7 on City Council District 3 Vacancy Interviews. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido City Council
- Read-up on Escondido council to choose from among 11 candidates for District 3 seat.
- Read-up on Agenda includes Item #7 on City Council District 3 Vacancy Interviews and Candidate Applications. Questions that candidates answered include: “What are your three top priorities for the City?”, “How would you address the City’s structural budget deficit?”, and “How would you address homelessness in Escondido?” Of concern, a few of the candidates presented privatization and criminalization of homelessness as solutions to the above questions.
- Comment on Item #7 on City Council District 3 Vacancy Interviews and/or Contact the Escondido City Council and express your views and concerns on the City Council District 3 Vacancy.
- Attend the Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025 on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 4:00 PM.
Homelessness
- Read-up on The trend continues: More falling into homelessness than becoming housed in San Diego County and Most Formerly Homeless San Diegans Securing Unsubsidized Rentals.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to address the immediate needs of the community, such as, creating a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa.
Federal Budget
- Read-up on National indivisible’s Legislative Process 101: The Debt Ceiling.
- Read-up on Explainer: Why we have a debt limit, and why this fight over it may be different and What to know after the US hit its debt ceiling.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and express support for a clean debt ceiling increase. See Support a Clean Debt Ceiling Increase, Tell Your Democratic Representative to Fight MAGA Extremism and Tell Your Republican House Representative You Oppose their Extreme Agenda.
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