Task Force Meeting August 26 in Grand Junction

THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY POVERTY REDUCTION TASK FORCE MEETING WILL BE IN GRAND JUNCTION.

AUGUST 26, 2010
2:30 PM -5:00 PM

THERE WILL ALSO BE A PRESENTATION ON THE IMPACTS OF
PROPOSED AMENDMENT 60, 61 AND PROPOSITION 101
ON LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES
AT 1:30 PM

PLEASE JOIN US AT:
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach
245 South 1st Street

Grand Junction, CO 81501-2201

(970) 241-3658

Constitutional Amendments

Chair--Annmarie Jensen


The group determined that the amendment requiring government to restrict bonding has the worst polling. The impact on low income people includes: public transportation, Community Health Centers, Education--bldg repair, FASTER, Higher Ed, private sector jobs-construction; OED; families and children. The task is to develop 2 or 3 paragraphs to feed back to the campaign; how do we get out to the faith community, etc.
Meeting notes and future activities.

Constitutional Amendments Workgroup Meeting

The next meeting of the Constitutional Amendments Workgroup of the Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force is:

July 28, 2010

at 1:30 pm

Location: 1120 Lincoln, Suite 900

All are welcome to discuss outreach plan for reaching low-income communities about the impact of Ballot Initiative 61.

EOPR Task Force Constitutional Amendments Wokgroup Minutes

Chair--Annmarie Jensen

The newly formed workgroup on the ballot initiatives 60, 61 and proposition 101 of the taskforce met to discuss what this group could do specifically related to low income persons and these three initiatives. The group decided to focus on amendment 61 because that measure is showing it is most likely to pass. The group decided that they would work on getting some written materials put together about amendment 61 and its affects on low income persons. They divided the impacts of the amendment up into several topic areas, and solicited volunteers to try and get further in formation on each one of those topic areas. Assignments are as follows. If your name is not listed here, please feel free to bring any information on any of these topics to the meeting.

Health Care – Corinne Fowler will contact CCHN and see what they may have already done
Education – Senator Guzman will discuss with Senator Hudak, and also see what CEA may already have.
Families and Children – Kenny Smith and Chaer Roberts will work on providing info on this
Housing and Libraries – Heidi Baker will contact CHFA and also the library association
Community Colleges/Universities – Annmarie Jensen will contact those folks.

Private Sector jobs--open