EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for June 5, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for June 5, 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.
Events
- Wednesday, June 7 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda will include Item #7 on Operating Budget Workshop and Item #8 on Economic Development Strategy. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, June 8, 2:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. No agenda posted as of June 4th. 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, June 21, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda will include Adoption of Operating & Capital Budget and Public Comment Process. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido Budget
- ICYMI Watch Operating Budget Workshop. Per SDUT: “Sales tax revenue is expected to drop by 3 percent, and a budget deficit of $11 million is projected. Staff recommended cuts and delayed maintenance to reduce expenses, as well as using the city’s reserve fund to help make up the difference.” See also Staff Report Preliminary Budget Workshop, The Escondido Discussion 2023 Slides and The Escondido Discussion 2022 Replay.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and call for more funding to community-based programs and services. For example, creating a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa to address immediate needs of our community.
- In-Related News: read-up on North County Report: Six Years Later, More Homeless Shelters Are Coming to North County (Quote: “In total, they provide 144 beds. That’s compared to at least 787 homeless people in North County…”) and This Couple Entered a Safe Parking Program for Stability. They Ended Up on the Street.
LGBTQ+ Rights
- Read-up on The anti-drag bill passed in Tennessee is straight from history's playbooks and A federal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad and vague.
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and State Senator Jones and ask them to support ACA-5 to “rescind Proposition 8” and “enshrine marriage equality in the state constitution” through a ballot measure.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass the Equality Act to “amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity”. The bill passed the House in 2019 and 2021 but the Senate failed to act on both times. See What Is The Equality Act? Anti-Discrimination Law Explained.
Gun Control
- Read-up on The Uvalde Report: A Path Forward for a Community—and Nation—Struggling to Heal.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass more comprehensive legislation addressing gun violence such as S.25 which will ban assault weapons and S.14 which will raise the age to be able to buy a gun from 18 to 21. Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla are co-sponsors of S.25 & S.14. Note that Representative Issa previously voted no on the Gun Safety Bill (S.2938) along with other gun safety legislation. See Demand a Federal Ban on Assault Weapons and Demand Action Against Gun Violence.
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