[OccupyCU] Outreach Committee meeting tonight 7:30p, in SDaS Room

[ya'aQov]

*Agenda's old business will include Flex N Gate, Move to Amend (canvassing
& training), Urbana's jail construction (see below)*

*Please join us.*

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*Dear all,*

* The County Board is trying to steamroll the jail construction. Their
agenda for Tuesday ignores all the board deliberations and community inputs
 made last week. There is no mention of  further public meetings and
instead the agenda offers “Establishment of a Jail Space Improvement
Project Planning Team” with the members already named. Sheriff Walsh is in
the lead and there are no people of color, no one from any sector of the
community.  They have also pushed to get the RFP going and declared that
looking into why people are locked up and examining alternatives to
incarceration are “outside the scope” of their committee. They also have
put “Funding Model Based on Current Available Resources” as an agenda item
but have merely said the info is “to be distributed”- in other words they
don’t want to tell us they are going to float a bond and then repay it from
the public safety tax.  Once again we need to get a good crowd there with
lots of people speaking out. Please come and bring a friend and be ready to
push back. The main goal now is to push for more public
participation-public meetings throughout the county and ultimately a
referendum. They don’t want any part of this, nor do they want to discuss
the elephant in the room-the 60% African American jail population. Look
forward to meeting again at*

*Brookens Admin Bldg, 1776 E. Washington, Urbana. 6 p.m Tuesday Feb 7. *

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