EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for May 4, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for May 4, 2020! Stay safe and healthy! 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
- Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 9:00 AM: Board Of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here Agenda includes item #01, 15 and 16 on SDC COVID-19 response updates and proposed actions. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov.
- Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Agenda includes item #11 on mobile home land rent vacancy control and item #12 on the city council district 2 vacancy. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido City Council
- Read-up on Escondido City Council deadlocks on District 2 nominations and Escondido City Council meeting agenda’s item #12 on the city council district 2 vacancy. The candidate short list are Barbara Aguilar (No Party Preference), Tina Ostrem Inscoe (Republican), Richard Paul (No Party Preference), Scotty Lombardi (Democrats) and Vanessa Valenzuela (Democrats).
- Contact Escondido City Council and express support for a ranked choice voting process as proposed by City Councilmember Diaz for the appointment of the city council district #2’s seat.
Local Rent Control
- Read-up on Escondido City Council meeting agenda’s item #11 on mobile home land rent vacancy control.
- Contact Escondido City Council and express support for placing a vacancy control initiative on the November Ballot to close a loophole in Prop K that allows mobile home park owners to raise the land rent for a new homeowner when a park resident wants to sell their mobile home. This leads to homeowners dropping the sell price of their home and losing equity in their home.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing? A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.
- Read-up on North County Mayors Want Businesses To Reopen This Week, Governor Says Not So Fast, County Ramps Up Testing In Southeast San Diego, But Still Falling Short Of Demand and Testing and the Governor Are the Two Things Standing in the Way of San Diego’s Reopening.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Board of Supervisors and tell them that you support Governor Newsom and California Department of Health’s 4-stages and 6-key indicators plan to reopen California. Tell them that you believe San Diego County should not ease our local public COVID-19 health measures until we meet both the 5 federal criteria and 6 key statewide indicators with widespread and robust testing and contact tracing. After calls to reopen SDC started in mid-April, we saw a reverse of local COVID-19 case decline and instead saw an increase of COVID-19 cases. See our updated notes on San Diego County COVID-19 Cases.
- Contact Mayor McNamara and the Escondido City Council and tell them that you oppose the mayor’s calls to reopen San Diego County in May or in the near-term without the county having met the 5 federal criteria and 6 key statewide indicators for easing restrictions.
- Note that in 7 days from April 26 to May 2, 2020 and even with our early & strict state and local public health orders, we had reported 884 new positive cases (which account for ~22.5% of total cases and a peak since 3/29-4/4 which saw 807 new positive cases), 132 new hospitalization cases, 39 new intensive care cases and 28 new death cases.
- In-related news: read-up on A Snapshot Of Who Died From Coronavirus In San Diego County.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump's attempts to reopen America, Health official says US missed some chances to slow virus, Trump Received Intelligence Briefings On Coronavirus Twice In January and Trump Moves To Replace Watchdog Who Reported Medical Shortages.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and urge them to pass additional relief for COVID-19. See Urge Congress to Pass Additional Coronavirus Relief Measures, What To Tell Your Members of Congress to Do About Coronavirus and People's Bailouts.
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