EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Sept. 7, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for Sept. 7, 2020! Check your voter registration (57 days until Election Day) and take the Census if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 72.6% response rate so far). Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, September 8, 2020, 7:00 PM: Planning Commission Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Agenda includes the Climate Action Plan.
- Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, 2:00 PM: Library Board of Trustees Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Agenda includes library reopening update. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Future Events
- Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, 5:30 PM: NAACP Escondido Candidate Forum via Zoom. Date changed to Sept. 16th. More details to follow.
Election
- Plan how you will vote for the upcoming election. Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Early in-person voting will also start on Oct. 5, 2020: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday starting Oct. 5 at the Registrar’s office and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31 through Monday, Nov. 2 at your assigned polling place or the Registrar’s office. Track your ballot at Where’s My Ballot. See Election Day 2020.
Postal Office
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.R.2382 and S.2965 to repeal the requirement for the USPS to “pre-fund retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future” which had placed an undue burden on the USPS. Ask them to also support H.R.801 to “maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 health emergency”. Note H.R.2382 and H.R.801 passed the House. See Tell Your Representative to Act Now to Save the US Postal Service, Demand the Federal Government Support the United States Postal Service and Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
- In-related news: read-up on Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up Home Deaths Climb As Some COVID-19 Victims Die Without Medical Care and For many immigrants, the eviction crisis has already begun.
- Read-up on San Diego Schools With Both Academic, COVID-19 Disparities Face Reopening Dilemmas and COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts American Indian Students Significantly, Survey Finds.
- Read-up on County releases redacted coronavirus outbreak list, San Diego County Releases Limited Coronavirus Outbreak Data and Some Prominent UCSD Faculty Want County To Slow Business Reopening.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Mayor McNamara and urge them caution about reopening San Diego County too quickly without sufficient testing and contract tracing capacity. San Diego County is still regularly reporting ~20 community outbreaks in a 7-day period for the past month while in Escondido, we now have a total of 1,938 positive cases (1,268.8 per 100k population) compared to 1,320 a month ago (up 618). Our Escondido total hospitalization rate is 81.1 per 100k population, intensive care unit 16.8 and mortality 16.6, which are some of the highest in North Inland San Diego County.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on FEMA Limits PPE Costs It Will Cover, Sending State Officials Scrambling and FDA convalescent plasma authorization: How Trump politicized another federal agency's response to the pandemic.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Tell your Members of Congress: Fight for the Emergency-Relief We Need and Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
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