EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for May 8, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for May 8, 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, May 10, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #9 on Third Quarter Budget Adjustment, #10 on Council Interagency and Subcommittee Assignments and #11 on Planning Commission Interviews. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda will include an Operating Budget Workshop. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- 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
- Watch The Escondido Discussion 2022 or read-up on The Escondido Discussion 2023 Slides.
- Read-up on Escondido’s Budget Deficit Has Taken a Toll on the City That May Take Years to Correct and North County Report: She Was Horrified by the State of Park Restrooms. So, She Did Something About it.
- Complete The Escondido Discussion Online Survey (5 to 15 minutes) on “local community priorities and City service needs” 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 Jordan Neely Was Already Dead: New York reckons with a homeless epidemic and a killing, Killed over ‘$14 of candy’: Banko Brown’s death is a tragedy of San Francisco’s making and Flipping burgers — and living on California’s streets.
Federal Budget
- Read-up on Debt ceiling showdown has 5 possible outcomes.
- 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.
- In-Related News: read-up on With school lunch no longer free for all kids, school meal debt rises.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on What to know about the Supreme Court and ethical concerns, Leonard Leo directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’ and Clarence Thomas Raised Him. Harlan Crow Paid His Tuition.
- 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.
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