EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for May 15, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for May 15, 2023! SANDAG is planning a new Rapid bus route connecting Eastern Escondido, Escondido Transit Center, and Palomar Medical Center Escondido and asking for feedback at Next Gen Rapid Route 471 Survey and Encuesta de la Próxima Generación De Los Buses Rapid 471.
Events
- Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #11 on Board and Commission Appointments and Item #12 on Operating Budget Workshop. See Fiscal Year 2023/24 Preliminary Operating Budget. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda will include a Capital Improvement Budget Workshop. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- 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. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido Budget
- Read-up on The Escondido Discussion 2023 Slides (See 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 A Daily Game of Russian Roulette’: Homeless in San Diego: As a record number of people die on America’s streets, Abdul Curry fights to stay alive, Why couldn’t SF house Banko Brown before he was shot at Walgreens? and ‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded.
Federal Budget
- Read-up on The US debt ceiling negotiations could hinge on Medicaid work requirements.
- 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 and MAGA Default Crisis Week of Action Toolkit.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts And Family Payments.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to adopt a code of conduct for the Supreme Court such as S.325/H.R.927. See Senate Democrats push for Supreme Court ethics code for justices and Outside groups take a first stab at a Supreme Court ethics code.
Gun Control
- Read-up on “My Daughter’s Murder Wasn’t Enough”: A Uvalde Mother Fights Back.
- 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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