Community Before Cops

2020 Election Candidates - Seaside

All County Candidates List: https://www.montereycountyelections.us/candidate-list/

Mayor

Ian Oglesby (Incumbant): Response to our Questionaire

Jon Wizard (Current City Councilmember): Response to questionaire. See Weekly article detailing his harassment by Thin Blue Line supporters

Joseph Smith (Hospital Systems Administrator): Response to our questionaire

City Council (vote for 2)

Ayman Adeeb (Dentist/Business Owner):

Tinisha Dunn (Healthcare Worker):

Alexis Garcia-Arrazola (Community Outreach Representative): Interview on IG Live

Regina Mason (Social Worker):

David Pacheco (Incumbent):

School Board - Trustee Area 2

Debra Gramespacher (Incumbent):

Jessica Hare (Registered Nurse/Mother):

Miriam Smith (Community Organizer/Parent): Response to our questionaire, Interview on IG

County Supervisor - District 4

Wendy Root Askew (School Board Member): Interview on IG Live, Response to questionaire

Steve McShane (Councilmember/Businessperson):

Seaside City Council Actions

Contact Seaside City Council

When contacting City Council members, CC the City Clerk (CityClerk@ci.seaside.ca.us) to make sure your comments are read
If you use an auto-fill email, change the title and add your own ideas (even a few sentences to start) so they must read individual comments.

Demands

Reduce police budget to 30% of total city budget (down from proposed 43%)
Permanently remove SROs from school campuses
End $30,000 police recruiting bonuses (highest in California)

What's Happening Now

In Seaside, we had overwhelming support for our budget proposal to remove Student Resource Officers, eliminate the $30,000 recruiting bonus for police officers and to reallocate these funds to partner with or hire members of local orgs already doing crisis counseling and supporting Seaside’s most vulnerable populations. (ex. Village Project has already noted in 6/17 discussion that they have a person who could fulfill the role of SRO in far more appropriate and supportive ways.) As revenue is restored to the City, CB4C insists funds are pooled into community service programs that support real public safety including parks & recreation, libraries, mental health & wellness initiatives, as well as housing support and food justice/access services

An Open Letter to Googie Grill.

23 June, 2020. Seaside, California

To: Jennifer Kadosh | jenkadosh@gmail.com

Dear Ms. Kadosh,

I’m writing to you regarding Friday’s Juneteenth Celebration at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church and the altercation that took place in your parking lot between you and attendees of the event, as well as what unfolded online in the following days. I understand you may have had concern for your business and patrons - in these difficult economic times, we are all struggling. If you are not aware, the person who took the video of you is receiving death threats and racially-charged threats of violence. I am hugely concerned by this, and rather than continue to stir vitriol and hate, I believe it’s time for us to come together and solve this as a community.

I would like to invite you to a mediated conversation about what transpired, and discuss the larger context of police harassment and violence both in our community and beyond. I trust that by coming together and listening to one another, we can begin the process of healing our community, challenging our implicit biases, and exploring alternative methods of problem-solving besides involving police--especially when we know Black folks are at highest risk when cops are called.

As a white resident and teacher in Seaside, I speak from the heart when I say it is our duty as a privileged class to hold ourselves and each other accountable to do the work of unlearning harmful patterns of racism in our society, beginning here at home. It’s undeniable that across the nation, white people are finally noticing how deeply entrenched racism is in our criminal justice systems, education systems, and in our own unconscious beliefs and unintended actions. To begin to address this legacy of injustice, we must be willing to challenge ourselves and to listen to our Black neighbors.

Restorative Justice Partners (RJP) has been asked to facilitate a mediated dialogue between you and the individual who took the video in your parking lot, either in-person with respect to social distancing, or online on Zoom. I hope that you will take this opportunity to rise to the occasion. Please let me know by Saturday June 27, 2020 if you are willing to participate and your availability so we can arrange a time for us to have this important conversation.

Thank you,

River Navaille & Community Before Cops

communitybeforecops@gmail.com

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