Upcoming regular Membership Meeting will be held on September 25, 2018 at the Presbyterian Church at 545 Ashbury Ave, El Cerrito 94530. Meeting will start at 6:30 pm.

Business Agenda

• 6:00 Doors Open:  Pizza available ($5)
• 6:30  Call to Order
• 6:35 Minutes from August 28, 2018
• 6:40 Treasurer’s Report
• 6:45 October 20 Dinner – Mark your calendar and sign up
• 6:50 Fall Precinct Walking Volunteers – sign up to assemble and to walk
• 6:55  Announcements

Program

7:10         Matt Duffy, Superintendent West Contra Costa Unified School District

Superintendent Matt Duffy will present an overview of the West Contra Costa Unified School District and the many challenges that face the district going into the new school year, including limited budgets, security concerns, curriculum, discipline issues, and the ongoing issues involving Charter vs. public schools.

Duffy spent nine years in the Oakland Unified School District serving as a principal and an area superintendent.   As an area superintendent, he oversaw a portfolio of 15 schools including middle and high schools throughout the city.   Before coming to WCCUSD in 2016 Duffy served as the Assistant Superintendent in Milpitas Unified where he was in charge of teaching and learning, leadership, enrollment, technology, Special Education, and LCAP development.  Superintendent Duffy is the ninth permanent superintendent in WCCUSD history.  He lives in Oakland with his wife Tamara and their three kids.

Action Item:

7:40                ECDC Endorsement Panel:  AC Transit Director at Large

The two candidates for AC Transit Director at Large will make their case before members for an ECDC endorsement, with a vote to follow.

• Dollene Jones is Co-Founder and CEO of Abundance Worldwide Enterprises and was an AC Transit bus operator for more than 21 years.
• Joel Young is the incumbent AC Transit Director at Large and is an attorney.

8:10                 CA Proposition Endorsements

At Last month’s ECDC meeting members voted to discuss, and possibly take positions on, the following four state propositions on the November ballot:

• Proposition 3 (Water Bond)
• Proposition 5 (Property Tax Assessment Changes)
• Proposition 7 (Daylight Savings Time Repeal)
• Proposition 10 (Rent Control Ban Repeal)

9:00 Adjourn

Time to Step Up and Get Steps – Precinct Walking

One of the missions of ECDC is to elect democratic candidates.  This means walking literature to El Cerrito and Kensington houses to inform resident who we support.  After the August meetings, ECDC will have endorsed several candidates for the November election, and the rubber needs to hit the road – literally.  We have about 75 separate 1-hour walks in El Cerrito and Kensington.  We walk from the third weekend in September to the second weekend in October.  ECDC needs volunteers for this fall’s walking campaign.  You can help in one of three ways!

Campaign Coordinator: The Coordinator sets up the walk maps, arranges and manages the literature stuffing and organizes the volunteers on two organized campaign days.  This is about a 5 hour a week task between September 1 and October 11.

Literature counters/stuffers: These volunteers bundle literature into groups of 10, 20 and 50.  This helps the Coordinator to get the right number of flyers into each walk folder.

Walkers: Get your steps in as you walk around various neighborhoods in El Cerrito and Kensington.  We bundle into 50 to 75 household walks over a 6 to 8 block area.  Designed to take about 60 to 90 minutes to walk to the target households, we are looking for 30 to 40 volunteers to each do one to three routes.  Yes, you can do more, and, every little bit helps.

To volunteer, please email Greg Lyman at gblyman@comcast.net.