My councilperson Mina Loera-Diaz had this great town hall about the thefts downtown. I’m in the audience and was concerned not only for my city, but also specifically for the break-ins and thefts we’ve suffered at the Humane Society of the North Bay. Many of you know I’m on the Board and currently the Board Secretary. We’re working on getting much better cameras and lights, but we have been victims of people violating the space where we’re just trying to find homes for animals in our community. Here is the video link:
Dear friends, husbands Jim Purpura and Steve Albanese, visited us for the first time since Covid. These were taken in the Twin Peaks bar in the Castro.
Went with fellow Humane Society of the North Bay volunteers Carlene Coury and Linda Overton. Linda is also on the Board with me. We got to see a lot of people we knew and schmooze with many of the Solano County movers and shakers.
The Benicia Chamber of Commerce, which HSNB has been a member of for 27 years, hosted the event in an amazing space called the Benicia Clock Tower. There are a bunch of art galleries in the area which appears to have been an old military complex and still serves as a shipping yard for big ships that deliver freight, including private automobiles, with its port at the mouth of the Sacramento Delta at the beginning of the Carquinez Strait.
My friend, neighbor and fellow activist Miguel Castillo joined me at this town hall. While I voted “No” for the regressive nature of this measure, it did win. I will always support spending money in my city and otherwise spending locally, but when I voted for it, I had no assurance of its proportion, planning, prioritization or accountability. This meeting addressed some of that, and I know my councilperson Mina Loera-Diaz wants the same transparency I do about the estimated extra $18M in revenue that the City of Vallejo is likely to get as a result of this measure’s passage.
