Got questions about what goes into your bill?
Wondering about utility undergrounding?
Come get answers from San Diego Gas and Electric.
(General questions only; specific energy bills/properties will not be discussed.)
Presenting for SDG&E:
Please join us at 6 pm on January 28th for an important and timely discussion of the PERT program with its Director, Dr. Marvin.
In 1996, PERT (Psychiatric Emergency Response Team) program was established in San Diego county. In fiscal year 2019-2020:
Mark Marvin, Ph.D. (Vice President of Community Research Foundation, PERT Division – Director) and Wes Albers (PERT Community & Law Enforcement Liaison) will address an overview of PERT including its history, the role of the PERT unit, and training provided to first responders.
Community Research Foundation, Inc. (2020). What is PERT? http://www.comresearch.org/pert.php
For the safety of all attendees, we require the following from participants in our meetings:
For help on setting up zoom, please see sandiegonaacp.org/zoom-setup
The night of the townhall, you may join by visiting:
We were so grateful to Ms Tevlin for her presentation!
Police Budget Townhall with the IBA
CriminalJustice #CitizensJustice #WeAreDoneDying #naacpsandiego #naacp #sandiego #socal #california
The following letter was received by the Branch:
Dear Francine and Brian,
I am writing to invite you to a roundtable discussion about Measure B, and next steps in the transformation of the current Community Review Board on Police Practices (CRB) into an independent Commission on Police Practices.
In preparing for this roundtable, we compiled a large list of local community groups. We are writing to you because of your leadership in the San Diego NAACP. If there is someone else in your group who would be a better fit to represent your organization, please feel free to forward this message to them.
The roundtable will be online, and will take place on Monday, November 30 at 4pm.
The purpose of this roundtable is threefold:
The roundtable will be co-hosted by:
Patrick Anderson, current CRB member, chair of the Outreach Committee, member of the Ad Hoc Transition Committee
Poppy Fitch, current CRB member and 2nd vice chair
Andrea St. Julian, author of Measure B and member of San Diegans for Justice
…
We would appreciate your publicizing this public meeting with your organization’s members. The roundtable will be live-streamed at the City of San Diego’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4gY2k1D1ikzb25QM-O3eg/
Questions or comments about the shared documents may be sent in advance of the roundtable to the following email address: [email protected]
Finally, I offer my profound gratitude for your commitment to community-based work, and my sincerest hope that you will be able to join us on November 30!
Yours,
-Patrick
—
Patrick Anderson, Professor
Department of Communication
Department of Ethnic Studies
Program in Critical Gender Studies
University of California, San Diego
(he/him)
The San Diego County Office of Education will be partnering with Panorama Education to host a 3-part virtual learning series focused on Enhancing Equity with SEL. It’s now more important than ever to focus on the racial inequities that exist within our school districts and learn how to actively fill the gaps.
Throughout the series, we’ll focus on how to leverage social-emotional learning (SEL) to address inequity that exists among, students, staff, and families. This is a space to ask questions and share resources with district leaders and educators just like you. Let’s tackle today’s challenges together and help each other grow.
If you would like to join us, please save your seat. Be sure to register for each specific learning session that you would like to attend:
If you are unable to attend a session but would like access to the recording and materials, register for that session and we will follow up after.
Please forward this email to your colleagues to spread the impact!
Thank you,The Equity Team
Please join us at 6pm, Tuesday November 10th for a presentation by and discussion with District Attorney Summer Stephan on the function, efforts and specialized units of the district attorney’s office.
Please see sandiegonaacp.org/zoom-setup for instructions on how to set up zoom to attend NAACP San Diego Branch events.
On Thursday night, October 22nd at 6pm the NAACP San Diego Branch will host a forum with the candidates for the San Diego County Office of Education District 1 board seat, Mark Powell and Gregg Robinson. This event is co-sponsored they the League of Women Voters and the California Charter Schools Association.
President Francine Maxwell
First Vice President Brian Bonner
Second Vice President Philip Liburd
Secretary Delfina González
Assistant Secretary Diane Langworthy
Treasurer Hakim Alaji
Assistant Treasurer Jennifer Porter
Dr Robert Lee Brown
Althea Dougherty
Tariq Harris
Wiley Lane III
Derrick Luckett
Brittany McKnight
Sonja Robinson
Dr Leonard Thompson III
Thomasine Whitehurst
Donte Wyatt, Esq
The NAACP San Diego Branch held its election on November 12th via ElectionBuddy. It went reasonably smoothly; 277 members voted, and approximately 30 of those called in to the Election Supervisory Committee for assistance. Three errors were discovered in the membership roster, but those folks were enabled to vote through the quick thinking of the Election Supervisory Committee.
For comparison, fewer than 30 people voted in the 2018 Branch Election.
You may view the results of 275 voters by following the same link you were sent to do your voting. However, because accommodations had to be made for two of the membership errors, the online vote differs just slightly from the numbers below. These additional votes did not affect the outcome.
We congratulate the winners and thank all the candidates for their service and their efforts. We look forward to working with everyone to move the needle for Civil Rights in San Diego and beyond.
Voting will take place from 4-9pm on November 12th, 2020.
All our voting will be done via the online voting service ElectionBuddy, as recommended by the National Association.
We will be sending out ballots from 4-9pm on November 12th, 2020. You can get your ballot three different ways:
If you have an email on file with us, we will email you a link to your ballot.
If you have a mobile phone on file with us, we will text you a link to your ballot.
If you don’t receive your ballot by email or text, join the following Zoom call for help voting:
Meeting ID: 535 969 7960
One tap mobile
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Manual Dial: 669-900-9128
Meeting ID: 535 969 7960
Once you get your ballot and get logged into ElectionBuddy, voting is easy. Simply click the circle or box next to the candidate(s) you wish to vote for. If you don’t wish to vote for any candidate for a particular office, click “Abstain”.
Keep scrolling down, because there are a lot of folks you might vote for! When you are done voting, click “Verify your selection”
ElectionBuddy will remind you who you voted for, and you can either go back and make changes (“Edit Ballot”) or make your vote final (“Submit ballot”).
You will only be allowed to vote once, so be sure before you hit “Submit ballot”!
You will be given a verification code; make sure you copy that down!
At our October 1st General Membership Meeting, we have four matters of election business:
At the September 3rd General Membership Meeting we elected the following persons to the Nominating Committee:
| Allie Akmal | Letitia Flynn | Khalada Salaam-Alaji |
| Petrina Branch | Diane Langworthy | |
| Dr Robert Brown | Philip Liburd |
These folks were charged with coming up for a nominee for each of our six (or seven) Officers and ten At-Large Executive Committee Members. They will give their report at our October meeting and present their list of candidates. If you would like to be interviewed by the nominating committee for a position on their slate, please email [email protected]. The Nominating Committee requests responses by September 18th.
Also at the October 1st General Membership Meeting, we will accept nominations by petition. In order for a nomination by petition to be valid, it must be signed by the nominee (granting consent for the nomination) and by at least three other members in good standing.
You may download a Petition and Consent form here. The form should be signed by all parties and emailed to [email protected], or mailed to the Branch at:
NAACP San Diego Branch
PO Box 152086
San Diego CA 92195-2086
Please realize that the form MUST reach the Branch by October 1st to be considered. Postmarks are insufficient; we MUST receive it.
For email, we will accept scanned copies or copies signed via AdobeSign or DocuSign or similar.
We greatly encourage you to submit your nominating petitions sooner rather than later. We will validate them and let you know if there is anything that needs to be fixed. There is no margin for error at the October 1st meeting. Your petition will be validated during the meeting, and if it is found invalid you only have until the nominations close during the meeting to resubmit it.
We have written a lengthy post listing what the various official documents (which can all be found at sandiegonaacp.org/election) say. It boils down to this:
In order to run as a candidate you must:
In order to sign a nominating petition you must:
The best thing to do is email [email protected] and ask.
However, if you have your membership card, you can get some hints:
John Doe is probably not eligible. Jane Brown is probably eligible.
We say “probably” not eligible because there are some instances where there have been misunderstandings that can sometimes be fixed. Please email [email protected] and we will try to help.
We say “probably” eligible because continuous membership in our Branch since May 1st, 2020 is required, and that continuity is hard to tell from a card, and you have to live or work in our jurisdiction, and that is also hard to tell from a card.
Please remember that the Secretary will be required to validate all the nominees and petition signers during our October 1st General Membership Meeting! Please do all our members a favor and submit your petitions early so we can validate them early and not make everyone wait. As an added bonus, that will mean there is no chance of a misunderstanding and an invalid nominating petition.
The moral of the story: email [email protected] and ask!
We are going to use online election software. Two choices will be presented, and we will ask the membership to choose which they prefer. We have evaluated four packages:
| Price (per election) | Requires Trusted Admin? | Voter Receipts | Handling of too Many EC Votes? | Non-email voters | |
| SimplyVoting | $340 | No | Fully Automatic | Refuses | Unknown |
| ElectionRunner | $65 | Yes | Manual | Refuses | Yes |
| ElectionBuddy | $89 | No | Automatic | Error message | Yes |
| OpaVote | $50 | No | No | De-selects earlier vote | Yes |
Of these four packages, we believe OpaVote and ElectionRunner are not viable, due to security (ElectionRunner) and the de-selection of earlier votes and lack of voter receipts (OpaVote). ElectionBuddy and SimplyVoting are both acceptable and will be offered as choices at the meeting, but at around a quarter of the cost (which will add up if we have both a practice election and a runoff), we recommend ElectionBuddy be chosen.
If you are interested in learning more about how an ElectionBuddy Election might work, we refer you to the following presentation:
Please be aware that this is very much a work in progress!
The Election Supervisory Committee are the folks who will actually work out the nuts and bolts of the election. They may not be candidates for office or the Executive Committee. Please consider that the election is a lot of work they will be required to do; they should have both the skills and time to manage an operation like this.
In order to stand as a candidate for the Election Supervisory Committee, you have to have been a member of our Branch since September 1st, 2020 and live or work in our jurisdiction.
The next steps in our election take place at the September General Membership Meeting. We need to do three things at that meeting: Elect the Nominating Committee, decide how many Members-at-Large there should be on the Executive Committee, and choose the method of the election.
The Nominating Committee consists of 5-15 members, only 2 of which may be current Officers or Executive Committee members. In order to serve on the Nominating Committee, you must have been a member in good standing of the NAACP San Diego Branch for the entire time period of August 4th, 2020 through September 3rd, 2020.
The work of the nominating committee will be to produce a “slate;” persons recommended for each Branch Office and each at-large position on the Executive Committee.
Members-at-Large of the Executive Committee are elected members who are on the Executive Committee without serving the Branch in a specific office or as a Committee Chair. The Branch chooses in September how many should be elected; a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 24.
Due to COVID-19, the Board of the NAACP has decided that all elections should take place online. We postponed choosing the election method hoping they would give us recommendations by the promised September 8th date; they did not.
At our August General Membership Meeting, the Membership will decided to hold the election on November 12th, from 4pm – 9pm. Due to COVID-19, elections will not be done in person but will take place through an online voting system.
In order to run for election in November of 2020, you must be a member in good standing as of May 1st(1), with your membership dues paid up. If you have even a single day of lapsed membership from May 1st to the election in November, you will be ineligible to run. We have seen this happen in our very Branch in the past, and the Secretary wishes to ensure it never happens again.
If you think you might run, check your membership card; if the Expiration Date is coming up, renew now! Whatever the date may be, please make a mental note to renew before then, if you think you might run. On their part, the Secretary will do their best to remind you when your dues are due, but it is ultimately your responsibility to keep up your membership.
Note: it is currently impossible to renew your membership in our Branch from National’s website.
You must renew your membership at join.sandiegonaacp.org, either with a credit card or by downloading a membership application and mailing it in with your check. Please write [email protected] with any questions.
2020 Election Procedure Manual
2020 Election Dates to Remember
Not a member? Need to renew?
Visit join.sandiegonaacp.org or mail your check by October 12th to:
NAACP San Diego Branch
PO Box 152086
San Diego CA 92195-2086
To be eligible to vote in our Branch, you must live or work in our “jurisdiction,” which is San Diego County south of the 56 freeway. Members in good standing will by now have received an email if their address of record is not in our jurisdiction. If you have moved or if you work south of the 56, please email [email protected]
Questions? Email [email protected] or call 619-431-1633
Note 1: Those of you who study the bylaws on a daily basis (we assume that is all of you) may have read that the membership deadline is April 1st. That deadline has been moved, for this year only, by the National Board of Directors.
