|
May 2009 HANC General Membership Meeting |
|
|
HANC General Membership Meeting
May 14th, 7 PM
State Special Election on the Budget: May 19th, 2009
HANC will feature the May 19th State Special Election on the budget and its possible
impacts on San Francisco's municipal budget.
Invited guests are The League of Women Voters who have been asked to give a
presentation on the State ballot measures ( 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, and 1F) placed on the
Special Election ballot by the Governor and State Legislature as part of the "deal" settling
the budget impasse last March.
Also attending the meeting will be Chelsea Boilard, of Coleman Advocates for Children
and Youth and James Keys, Health Program Director of Senior Action Network. Chelsea
and James shall place the state ballot measures in context of the nearly $600 million in
cuts being proposed for the San Francisco municipal budget.
All state wide polls taken over the last week indicates that most of the state propositions
are losing with the voters, especially the revenue measures -Propositions 1C, 1D and 1E-
which redirects state funding into the states general fund from the lottery (1C),
children's and youth services ( 1D) and mental health (1E). If these measures fail, and
they are trailing by from 9 to 21 points in the Field Poll, the impact on the state budget
will be measurable although state revenues are down by several billion dollars from two
months ago, when the measures were placed on the ballot. In short, there will be severe
budget cuts anyway.
What does this unprecedented decline in tax revenue mean for the state and the City?
Come and find out for yourself, Thursday, May 14th, 7 PM, 1833 Page Street.
|
|
|
Meetings |
|
|
|
HANC meetings are open to the public and take place on the second Thursday of each month, at 7:00 p.m. in the Park Branch Library located at 1833 Page Street in San Francisco. [map] Non-members are welcome to attend and participate without voting, and new members may vote or run for office after one month's membership standing. Reminders of these meetings -- and their agenda -- come in the form of the monthly HANC newsletter which also provides information of issues of importance to the neighborhood. The coordinating Board of Directors, elected every November by the general membership, also meets monthly about ten days before the membership meetings. |
|
|
Meetings & Calendar 
