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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCritical updates you'll need to know (December 3, 2020)View this email in your browser What you'll need to know Our most notable events + tasks : December in SLO Gov. Newsom issues Stay-At-Home Order for SLO and our region. Governor Newsom has issued a new, regional Stay-At-Home order as an "emergency brake" to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19 in California. Once our region's ICU hospital capacity falls below 15%, the new Stay-At-Home order will be triggered for at least three weeks. All indicators suggest our region will be placed on a Stay-At-Home order in the next few days. Once the Stay-At-Home order is triggered, bars, wineries, nail salons, hair salons and barbershops, and other personal care services will need to close. Private gatherings of any size will be prohibited. Schools that have received a waiver can stay open as can all "critical infrastructure," otherwise all schools will remain closed. For more up-to-date information... Stay up-to-date with COVID-19 emergency Subscribe Past Issues Translate and safety info The COVID-19 crisis continues to impact the health and safety of those in our community and the economic health of our businesses and institutions. Stay armed and informed with the most up-to-date information about the pandemic and our City's response at readyslo.org. #WeGotOurBlock COVID-19 Printables available for download Subscribe Past Issues Translate Click to download your own #WeGotOurBlock printable SLO City 2021-23 Community Survey The City is seeking your input on the most important, highest priorities you want the City to accomplish in the next two years. Completing the 2021-2023 Community Survey is the first step to getting the best picture of the kind of City that together we all can create. TAKE THE COMMUNITY SURVEY Subscribe Past Issues Translate Deadline to complete the Survey: 10:00 PM, December 15, 2020 Shop Small All Season Long Our Downtown shops and services are taking all precautionary measures to help keep our downtown community and visitors safe this holiday season. You and your family can shop small all season long! For a map and extra information about our downtown stores and restaurants, click here. Enrollment for Covered California Annual open enrollment for Covered California – California’s state health insurance marketplace – is now open through January 31, 2020. In order for coverage to begin on Jan 1, 2021, consumers will need to sign up by Dec. 15. Visit https://www.coveredca.com/ to sign up! SLO City is on the CDP “A” list The City of San Luis Obispo was recently recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) as one of 88 leadership cities across the world that are meeting the highest standards of “climate and sustainability-related transparency, achievement, and commitment.” Transportation Project of the Year Winner APPLY NOW : COVERED CA INSURANCE Subscribe Past Issues Translate The City of San Luis Obispo has been awarded Transportation Project of the Year (<$2M) by the local chapter of the American Public Works Association for the Anholm Neighboorhood Greenway Foothill/Ferrini Crossing. Congratulations to DEI Task Force Funding Recipients 8 local organizations have been selected for the first round of funding through the city’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force program: R.A.C.E. Matters SLO Noor Foundation SLO Repertory Theater Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success Diversity Coalition San Luis Obispo County Literacy for Life Subscribe Past Issues Translate SLO International Film Festival One Cool Earth We applaud you for your continued commitment to SLO and to your efforts in helping "narrow equity gaps that have disproportionately impacted marginalized communities:" A big thank you to every organization that applied. And special congratulations to this year's awardees! Come out and enjoy Light Up Downtown The tradition of Light Up Downtown SLO continues this month but Downtown SLO, the City of San Luis Obispo and other community partners have helped reimagine the Holiday season so the memory- making can continue while our community stays safe during this pandemic. All LightUp Downtown SLO activities have been moved outdoors. Visitors are expected to wear a mask, keep to smaller groups, maintain distance from others, and follow all COVID-19 safety guidelines. If you are unable to join us in person, you’ll still be able to view the downtown windows online. You can even vote for your favorite! Meet up with Mayor Heidi Subscribe Past Issues Translate Join Mayor Heidi for “Meet Up with Mayor Heidi” Monday, December 7th from 5:30-6:30 PM. This is an opportunity for the Mayor to listen to you and your neighbors as well as answer your questions and share her thoughts on the issues most important to SLO, our region and the country at this critical juncture in our history. Mayor Heidi will also update attendees on her work with our City Council to address the issues facing our city and our region. Space is limited, so please RSVP today. Once we reach capacity, we will put participants on a waitlist. Mayor's Corner: Message from Heidi For my first mayor's corner, I wanted to share some of the speech I gave during this week's swearing-in ceremony for our newest City Council: Congratulations to our first ever all-female city council—I look forward to working with all of you all to reimagine a bright future for our city. It’s taken 170 years to get here since our city was first created. It’s a perfect homage to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg who when asked when will there be enough women on the 9 member Supreme Court, responded with: 'When there are nine." Now we are five. In 1917, Queenie Warden was the first woman to run for mayor of San Luis Obispo. And while she did not prevail, we owe her and all of our pioneering ancestors a debt of gratitude. I am certain she is looking down on us all tonight with pride. This Council was her wildest dream. While we celebrate the first all-female identified city council here in RSVP NOW : MAYOR HEIDI'S MEET UP Subscribe Past Issues Translate SLO I recognize that I also have many forms of privilege as a white woman in a position of power, and I understand that it took far too long for women to get here. So we must cast a vision for more swift equity, and I look forward to more people of color, indigenous, transgender, and disabled leaders joining us on the dais. We are in one of the most complex moments of our history. People across our community are experiencing deep pain, fear, and loss. Loss of businesses, of income, of classrooms, of family plans, of health and of life itself. These next few years will ask a lot from each one of us. We have been challenged to our core, and the pain is not over. This very month may be one of the toughest of our lives. I want you to know I am here with you. And our dedicated City staff will be here with you. No matter what. We will continue to do everything we can to swiftly and creatively address the many compounding crises we face. Public health and safety, small business retention, meaningful remedies for folks living unsheltered, affordable housing, sustainable transportation, and climate action—all addressed with a lens of an economic recovery that leaves no one behind. There is a long list of challenges we face—none more pressing than the dilemma of division. This election confirms that this community is ready to do the difficult and meaningful work of having hard conversations. We can tell the truth about San Luis Obispo and still love it. In fact if we truly love this place, we must tell the truth about who we are in order to blossom into who we aspire to be. And we won’t get there by fighting with each other. Subscribe Past Issues Translate We have two very divergent roads we can go down: the road of hatred and division, or the less traveled road of mutual respect, and love. We can be a community where we can disagree without being disagreeable. Where we ask each other with genuine curiosity: “what is it like to be you?” A city where we do not strive to a niceness that veils the truth but rather a city that embraces an Adventurous Civility. The adventure of civility for our time can’t be a mere matter of politeness or niceness. Adventurous civility honors the difficulty of what we face and the complexity of what it means to be fully human. It doesn’t celebrate diversity by putting it upon a pedestal and ignoring its messiness or its depths. The questions that perplex and divide us will not be resolved quickly. Civility, in our world of ever present change is about creating new possibilities for living forward while being different and includes at times moments of profound disagreement. We are grappling with questions of meaning, of how we structure our common life, and who we are to each other. How do we speak the questions we don’t know how to ask each other or even ourselves? Can we find ways to cross gulfs between us about politics and the meaning of community? Can we engage our neighbors who have become strangers? Can we do so even while we continue to hold passionate disagreements on deep, contrasting convictions? It is up to us, where we live, right here and right now to start having the conversations we want to be hearing and creating the realities we want to inhabit. We can be a city where we have more trust in each other than anything else. Where we are hard on issues and soft on grievances. A community where we fill people’s potholes while we fill people’s hearts. Subscribe Past Issues Translate I echo the words of Madame Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris. "Now the real work begins. To beat this pandemic. To rebuild our economy. To root out systemic racism in our justice system and society. To combat the climate crisis. To heal the soul of our nation. The road ahead won't be easy. But America is ready." As we move forward into our future, as we create a city of belonging for every one of us, let us move forward with Adventurous Civility. America is ready and so is San Luis Obispo. This will be the hardest thing we have ever done—and we can do hard things. Mayor Heidi Mayor - San Luis Obispo NEWSLETTER from HEIDI HARMON FOR MAYOR In these challenging times, our community newsletter is vital! A $5 contribution today helps ensure that the community stays updated and informed as we navigate through these times together. Can you donate today to help? HELP SUPPORT OUR NEWSLETTER Subscribe Past Issues Translate Make sure to stay connected with me on social media—I update my Facebook and instagram regularly with new content! Be on the look out for questions and opportunities for collaboration, every voice matters! For more information about Heidi Harmon please contact: heidi@heidiharmon.org [DONATE] to help support Heidi Harmon for Mayor Paid for by Heidi Harmon for Mayor 2020 F.P.P.C. # 1388334 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Subscribe Past Issues Translate