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18 Feb 2010 - ECDC Meeting, Topic Water; Speaker: Helix Water District General Manager Mark Weston at Coco's Restaurant at 1025 Fletcher Pkwy El Cajon, CA 92020 (6p/7p) sponsored by East County Democratic Club Meet at 6pm and join us for dinner; main meeting starts at 7pm Info: 619-447-3246 or visit http://www.ecdcweb.orgDetails
18 Mar 2010 - ECDC Meeting, Topic Endorsements & Supreme Court Decision; Speaker: Mary Salas + more! at Coco's Restaurant at 1025 Fletcher Pkwy El Cajon, CA 92020 (6p/7p) sponsored by East County Democratic Club Meet at 6pm and join us for dinner; main meeting starts at 7pm Info: 619-447-3246 or visit http://www.ecdcweb.orgDetails
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HOT PROJECTS
ECPAC - El Cajon City Council threatens to close the East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC) theater December 24th for 18 to 24 months for some kind of renovation, the substance of which is not quite clear. Apparently, there is some threat of lawsuit by CCT (Christian Community Theater) and Art Beat Management, headed by Paul Russell.
Grossmont Healthcare Board - Sent $100,000 "grant" to the Boy's and Girl's club for the Little Rascal's Room, a questionable expentiture since it has almost no relevance to healthcare. Grant exceeded guidelines and was from general fund instead of grants fund, an irregularity. This, while family care facilities were denied funds for prenatal care givers.
Sunrise Powerlink - SDG&E surprises Lakeside with the announcement that the huge transmission line project is slated to decimate EL MONTE VALLEY. See background and videos here: Sunrise Powerlink.
Wind Zero - Paramilitary training camp planned for Ocotillo/Nomirage area of Imperial County, just over the San Diego County line, is now called "Coyote Wells". Draft EIR up for comment on 2010-01-26
Blackwater Otay - Blackwater (now "Xe") offends the community with agreement with Southwestern College to use campus classrooms in trade for use of shooting range. The SWC Governing Board voted to cancel the agreement during their October 14, 2009 meeting, about ten months after the agreement was first disclosed. More here: Blackwater Otay and Blackwater In Southwestern College
Police academy suspends classes -- Kristina Davis, Union Tribune, 2010-01-21 (Note: this academy recently pulled their contract with Blackwater/Xe to use the Blackwater Otay training facility. See Blackwater In Southwestern College for the full story on our 10-month battle to stop that contract. This additional scrutiny of their training facility may be a result as well.)
COPs Rov Report - COPs Report on the San Diego County Registrar of Voters November 2008 Election This report is available as a PDF file. Please complete the following form to get ...
Cops Canvass Report Procedure Summary - #CanvassProcedureSummary Canvass Procedure Summary This section of the Cops Canvass Report describes the overall process used to conduct elections in San Diego County ...
Cops Canvass Report Introduction - Executive Summary Introduction This report is the result of a project initiated by Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) in 2008 to document and review the procedures ...
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Cops Canvass Report Issues Summary - Issues Summary This part of the report lists all issues in numerical order. There are two major categories of issues. Issues related to RoV Procedures These ...
Cops Canvass Report Manual Tally Procedure - #ManualTallyProcedure Manual Tally Procedure The RoV maintains the One Percent Manual Tally Procedure to govern this process, which is mandated by the SoS. This is ...
Cops Canvass Report Five Percent Review - #FivePercentReview COPs Five Percent Review COPs conducted a review of RoV procedures by gather all available and relevant documentation on a 5% random sample of ...
Cops Canvass Report Documents - #DocumentsReferenced Documents Referenced The following documents were provided by the RoV as a response to our request or obtained from other sources. These documents ...
Cops Canvass Report Unscanned Ballots - #UnscannedBallots Ballot Control and Scanning The first step of our review is to determine if all the ballots were correctly processed. Acceptable Error Rate Voluntary ...
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Projects
See COPs Program for a list of all projects and an overview of our project concept.
Collaboration Areas
Common Calendar - Month-at-a-glance format for all events relevant to East County
Calendar Update - Quick list of the events for the next 2 weeks.
How To Turn In Churches To The IRS - How to turn in churches and other nonprofits who are promoting a candidate or spending significant time on propositions.
Gun Control - The State Democratic Platform supports Safe Gun Ownership... Read more here.
Strong Family Model - How should we decide issues of pregnancy termination, end-of-life decisions, and even gay-marriage? The "Strong Family Model" is an important umbrella for these issues.
Other Stuff
County Removes Lutzs Trees - After sending a request for information to Dianne Jacob's office and to the County Counsel regarding Brown Act violations, the County retaliates by driving over the curb with a truck and removing all the trees in front of the Lutz residence with no notice at all.
What Are RSS Feeds? - Learn about an important technology for distributing Blog-like postings.
Basic Instructions - When you first start using this wiki to report on a strange event, I will refer you to this topic to get you started!