EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for March 7, 2022
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for March 7, 2022! California Primary Election will be on June 7, 2022. Check your registration status and updated district information, and register to vote if you’re eligible and not registered.
Events
- Thursday, March 10, 2022, 2:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda has been posted yet as of 3/6/2022. 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, March 16, 2022, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. The City Council will vote on Recommended Redistricting Plan (PDF) Map 2E. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido Budget
- 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 public library. See also Re-imagining Public Safety.
- In-Related News: read-up on County launches campaign to promote Mobile Crisis Response Team.
COVID-19 & Recovery
- Read-up on The Burden of COVID Is Shifting to the Global South and The Biden Administration Killed America's Collective Pandemic Approach.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to support S.3726 which funds research on long COVID-19. See Va. Sen. Tim Kaine still has long covid symptoms, introduces bill to research the phenomenon.
- In-Related News: read-up on Will one-way masking protect you from COVID in public spaces?
Voting Rights
- Read-up on Jan. 6 committee says Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election and Jan. 6 committee says Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election.
- 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 Redistricting
- Watch the Presentation to the City Council on Escondido Recommended Redistricting Plan (Item #14; ~44 minutes).
- Contact or Comment to the City Council to support Escondido Recommended Redistricting Plan Map 2E. The Escondido Redistricting Commission approved Map 2E and was presented to the City Council on March 2nd. On March 16th, Map 2E will be up for approval by the City Council. Previous map visualizations include January 10th, January 13th, Map Visualization 1, Map Visualization 1A, Map Visualization 1B, Map Visualization 1C, Map Visualization 1D, Map Visualization 2, Map Visualization 2A, Map Visualization 2B, Map Visualization 2C, Map Visualization 2D. See Redistricting Documents & Information for video recordings of past hearings and meetings.
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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