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Jacksonville working Women for Obama

This is a group of working women who are working to ensure that change happens. Whether you work in or outside the home, you're a Working Woman, and invited to join us.

Virtual Brainstorm: How can we help folks with mortgages or electric bills?

By Casie - Feb 20th, 2009 at 8:33 am EST

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Good morning everybody,

Our group received a request for assistance with mortgage payments and/or electric bills this week. While we don't have any monetary funds at this time, I would like to open up a virtual discussion about how we could solve these issues locally. If you know of existing groups or programs in place to solve these issues, please post them here. If you have ideas about how we ourselves could be of service, please post those as well.

To get you started thinking, I will post some of the ideas folks have come up with so far:

I had one thought, which was that Chris and I could unplug things and turn down the heat, lose the cable tv, etc. and then "adopt" a family to help with their electric bill. Riverside for Change families could decide to participate on a household basis, and maybe single folks could partner up to "adopt" a family. We'd be helping the environment and our neighbors.

Holly put forward that The Jacksonville Urban League has housing counseling programs, for buying homes and for finding subsidized housing. http://www.jaxul.org/

Anybody else have ideas?

Casie Simpson
Riverside for Change

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Contact City council asap: $750,000,000 No-bid Waste Management Contract

By Casie - Feb 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm EST

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Hey everybody,

Max Wood and the Young Democrats have alerted me of the need to contact city council and urge them to vote "no" on the $750,000,000, 35-year no-bid contract to give Trail Ridge over to Waste Management. All you need to do is e-mail cityc@coj.net. Let them know, briefly, that you'd like the Trail Ridge bid to be open, competitive, transparent, and fair. Ask them to vote "no" on the mayor's contract proposal. The e-mail can be as short as a couple of sentences. You can even copy my letter below and change it as you see fit!

Bringing this contract down would establish a mighty precedent: Jacksonville residents will not tolerate any more no-bid contracts.

Example:

Dear City Council Members,

As one of your constituents, I urge you to vote "no" on the no-bid Waste Management contract for Trail Ridge. In these tough economic times, it seems both unethical and irresponsible to approve a $750,000,000 contract without opening the bid to other vendors. Jacksonville residents deserve a competitive, transparent, and fair bidding process for all contracts — especially one of such magnitude.

Thank you,

Casie

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