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Santa Rosa Snippets - by Elaine B. Holtz - April 2018

Two public hearings were held regarding

Councilwoman Julie Combs encourages residents to attend these hearings. “It’s important that all our residents have a voice in how the districts are drawn. The lines of the districts will group voters together to select the council member to represent them,” she said. Combs also believes residents need to have a voice in sequencing which districts are the 3 districts in the 2018 election in November and which are the 4 districts in the 2020 election.

District Elections hearings schedule has changed!

April 3: Public hearing (may include consideration of maps

April 10: Public hearing and introduction of the ordinance (may include consideration of maps posted one week earlier, that is on or before April 3rd)

April 17: Public hearing, second reading and adoption of the ordinance

at the Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa. INFO: srcity.org/2593/District-Based-Elections

You are also encouraged to provide comments to the Santa Rosa demographers at SantaRosa@NDCresearch.com. Current and past maps and documents are posted at srcity.org/2819/Draft-Maps.

Santa Rosa Assembly Districts 2 (Jim Wood) Women of the Year

Congratulations to Jenny Chamberlain named Women of the Year representing the 2nd District and resident of Santa Rosa. Chamberlain is an inspiring leader in Sonoma County’s Hispanic/Latino community. She is highly regarded as a champion for immigrant rights, civic engagement and promoting opportunities for young Latina leaders. Jenny is the current President of Sonoma County’s Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Secretary for the California Hispanic Chamber and deputy director for Sonoma County District 4 Supervisor James Gore.

The Woman of the Year event was founded in 1987 by Assemblywoman Bev Hansen (R) and Assemblywoman Sally Tanner (D), who noticed that the California Legislature had no events planned for the month of March, Women’s History Month. The women are recognized as Woman of the Year in a formal ceremony on the floors of the Senate and Assembly. This yearly event, sponsored and organized by the Women’s Caucus, is greatly anticipated by all Legislators. California is composed of 80 assembly districts.

Delegation visits Santa Rosa’s Sister City Jeju, South Korea

This is the Seventeenth year that Don Taylor, owner ofOmelette Express in Santa Rosa has been front and center as scores of adults and teens from Santa Rosa and Jeju have crisscrossed for cultural exchanges. This year Taylor with the help of Peter Suk and Gail Bowers fromMaria Carrillo High School organized twenty-five students to attend and perform at the annual Jeju Fire Festival, a national holiday bringing together believers to pray for a good harvest and healthy year. Also joining the group was Santa Rosa Councilman John Sawyer, who reports, “Most of the students we bring over to our Sister City of Jeju, South Korea experiences a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.”

The Sister City program was introduced at a White House conference by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 and includes individual sister cities across the United States that link up with the citizens of other countries in an effort to bring about “citizen diplomacy.” Once again participants were able to visit the Snoopy statue provided by Don & Jeff Taylor in memory of their mother Nan Taylor.

A bit of history: Santa Rosa provided the first American dancers to the fire festival in 2003 and in exchange received two Korean Dol hareubangs which are large rock statues found on Jeju Island off the southern tip of South Korea and now displayed on Sonoma Avenue in Santa Rosa.

Something to think about: “We know we must provide for our students’ safety and invest in their prosperity. It’s just as critical that we learn from them and let them lead.” #PublicSchoolsWeek Keith Maurice Ellison, an American politician and lawyer who has been the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2007 and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee since 2017.

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