Vote Nevada Supporters,

The legislature came back into session yesterday after being shut down due to inclement weather.  Thankfully, our state representatives and employees are safe.  The legislature did not transition to remote hearings because legislators voted to remove rules that allowed legislators to participate remotely at the beginning of this session.  Legislative leaders feel time lost can be made up with a few evening sessions or possibly a Saturday session or two.

Some reminders:

Tomorrow, March 3rd, the College of Southern Nevada is hosting a Zoom meeting from 9 to 10:30 am with an EEOC representative and the Executive Director of the ACLU NV.  The topics will be knowing what rights the EEOC protects and options for enforcing our new Equal Rights Amendment in the Nevada Constitution.  You can RSVP here: t.ly/nv0s

On March 8^th, at 5:00 pm, via Zoom, Northern Nevada Indivisible is hosting an event: OUR FRAUGHT ELECTIONS, with Jamie Rodriguez, Washoe County Registrar of Voters. Ms. Rodriquez will review her plans for the 2024 election.  RSVP: t.ly/-lFK

Ms. Rodriguez is working to improve internal procedures and training, and she also has plans to form a group of outsiders to provide input on how to improve the process in Washoe County.

 It is vital that we work with our election administrators.  We need as many solutions as possible to ensure mail-in ballots go to voters as smoothly as possible and to ensure we reduce the number of ballots that go uncounted due to uncured voter errors on mail-in ballots.  6,000 uncounted mail-in ballots in the general election is just too high.  (Reference: t.ly/iTlx1)

 Represent Women is hosting a Democracy Solutions Summit on March 7, 8, and 9^th, via Zoom.  Here is the description:

Our second annual virtual Democracy Solutions Summit brings together experts and leaders in election administration, voting rights, and democracy reform who are working on innovative solutions that upgrade and strengthen our democracy. Women experts will discuss a range of critical issues related to fair access, fair elections, and fair representation. Experts will focus on viable, scalable, and transformative solutions to build a 21st century democracy that reflects today’s needs and values.

Each day’s sessions run from 3-5 pm ET.

Day 1: Fair Access – Ensuring ballot access for voters and candidates
Day 2: Fair Elections – Upgrading US Presidential Elections
Day 3: Fair Representation – Ranked Choice Voting and the Fair Representation Act

You can register here: t.ly/rguc

 On March 10^th, the College of Southern Nevada Women’s Alliance is hosting Women’s Hidden Diseases to discuss equity in health care.  You can RSVP here: t.ly/jAecs

 The National Constitution Center is celebrating Women’s History Month with a Live Virtual Event series.  You can RSVP on this page toward the bottom: https://constitutioncenter.org/calendar/womens-history-month-2023

This interview features Arizona’s new Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes: https://youtu.be/qYxdr-TulXM

This forum is from Up the Vote Virginia: The Impact of Ranked Choice Voting on Communities of Color: https://youtu.be/qTa7_-YAiH8

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

Tomorrow starts week 4 of our legislative session. The beginning of the week looks like pretty bad weather in the Washoe Valley and Carson City, so, if you prefer to not provide in-person public comments, I have good news.

The rule created at the beginning of the session that anyone wishing to provide public comments over the phone had to email the committee 24 hours before a bill hearing is gone!  So, the meeting agenda now provide instructions for calling in public comments during the hearing.

Here is a list of events this week:

Monday, February 27, 2023, 1:30 pm

The Carson City Democratic Men’s Club is hosting Carson City Superintendent of Schools, Andrew Feuling. If you would like to join through Zoom, to receive the Zoom link email Rich Dunn at richdunn as one word and then @aol.com.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:00 pm

Vote Nevada is tracking bills related to mental and behavioral health and AB37 is at the top of that list.  We must address our severe shortages of mental and behavioral health providers.  Please consider providing public comments on this bill in person, in writing, or over the phone.  You can click on the agenda below to see information about providing public comments.

4:00 PM  AB37: Creates a Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce Center in higher education

Assembly Committee on Revenue

Agenda

• Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

AB37

 Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 8:00 to 9:00 am (doors open at 7:30)  Dona Maria’s Restaurant 910 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 89101

Hispanics in Politics Monthly Breakfast: Celebrating Two Secretaries of State

Guests: Outgoing Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske and Current Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar

Friday, March 3, 2023, 9:00 to 10:30 am, via Zoom RSVP: t.ly/nv0s

Vote Nevada, ACLU NV, and the CSN Women’s Alliance Presents

Know Your Rights with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & “We have an Equal Rights Amendment, now what?” with the ACLU NV Executive Director Athar Haseebullah.

Friday, March 3, 2023

1:00 PM

SB142: Homeless Persons Bill of Rights

Senate Committee on Judiciary

Agenda

• Room 2135 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

SB142

 Friday, March 10, 2023, 9:00 to 10:30 am, via Zoom RSVP t.ly/jAecs

Hidden Women’s Disease: Join the CSN Women’s Alliance as we discuss policy priorities for establishing women’s healthcare equity

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

Some reminders:

Thursday: February 23^rd, Noon, via Zoom, EEOC Equity in the Workplace, EEOC, and Nevada Equal Rights Commission. RSVP: t.ly/Nusj

Thursday: February 23^rd, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, via Zoom, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! K-12 Education Civil Rights Community Town Hall with Office of Civil Rights Special Education. RSVP: t.ly/TaSq

Sunday: February 26^th, 1 to 2:30 pm, via Zoom, Vote Nevada & Family to Family, Connections: Early Learning, Mental Health, and Workforce Development. RSVP: https://vote-nevada.news/Early-Learning

Join us for a discussion of how early learning, mental health, and workforce development tie together legislatively.

Friday: March 3^rd, 9 to 10:30 am, via Zoom, Vote Nevada: EEOC Know Your Rights & ACLU NV “We have an equal rights amendment, now what?”  RSVP: t.ly/W_1k

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 4:00 PM

AB37: Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce Center                                           

AB62: Tax exemptions for low-income housing

Assembly Committee on Revenue

Agenda

• Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

AB37, AB62

March 7, 8, and 9^th via Zoom                                                                                                        Represent Women: Democracy Solutions Summit

“We’re thrilled to announce the 34 women (and counting!) who will be speaking at our virtual 2023 Democracy Solutions Summit! With attorneys general, election administrators, advocates, five Madam Secretaries of State, and MORE, there is certainly no shortage of brilliance at this summit. There’s still time to register for the event, so be sure to claim your FREE spot today!”

Friday, March 10, 2023, 9 to 10:30 am via Zoom.

Let’s discuss how the medical establishment treats or fails to treat diseases especially associated with women, and the society-wide repercussions of not taking women’s health seriously.  Our guest speaker has written a book about her journey with endometriosis.  RSVP: t.ly/TfE7

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

We are entering week 3 of the legislative session.  Despite tomorrow being a holiday, the legislature will be open and running.  You can view each day’s calendar of hearings here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023

You can review all the events related to “Know Your Rights” with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & our newly approved Equal Rights Amendment, as well as Vote Nevada’s event on engaging in advocacy for early learning here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/2023/02/17/vote-nevada-update-2-16-2023/

You can watch our recording of the Zoom meeting on “What is the Forward Party?” here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/vote-nevada-community-meeting-recordings/

You may want to listen to the KNPR State of Nevada interview with Governor Lombardo, it is very interesting: https://knpr.org/

This is the sign-up for the upcoming virtual Represent Women’s Democracy Solutions Summit, via Zoom, March 7^th to 9^th:  https://www.representwomen.org/democracy_solutions_summit

Here are some issues I will be following this week in the legislature:

Monday, February 20, 2023:

8:00 AM

1. AB131: Puts Governor Sisolak’s Executive Order to protect women who travel to Nevada for reproductive services and the doctors who provide those services into law.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

Agenda

• Room 2134 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

SB131

1:00 PM

2. SB142 is a Homeless Bill of Rights

Senate Committee on Judiciary

Agenda²

• Room 2135 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

SB142

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

3:30 PM

3. SB42: Medical care for the indigent

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

Agenda¹

• Room 2134 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

SB42

Thursday, February 23, 2023

8:00 AM

4. AB35 & AB121 are both criminal justice reforms.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

Agenda

• Room 3138 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

AB35, AB121

8:00 AM

5. Budgets: For Child and Family Services

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and Senate Committee on Finance, Subcommittees on Human Services

Agenda

• Room 3137 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

3141, 3142, 3145, 3146, 3229

 Friday, February 24, 2023

8:00 AM

6. Budgets: Secretary of State Elections & Nevada Commission on Ethics

Joint Meeting of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and Senate Committee on Finance

Agenda¹

• Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
• Videoconferenced to Room 4412 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.

1008, 1050, 1051, 1343, 1499

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

Here are some event updates:

Saturday: February 18th, 12:30 pm, Las Vegas Branch of NAACP, Pearson Community Center, 1625 West Carey Ave.  In-person. 

Sunday: February 19^th, 4 to 5:30 pm, via Zoom, Nevada NOW: Celebrating Black History Month Program RSVP: t.ly/mpFS

Monday: February 20^th, 10 am, via Zoom, Know Your Rights with the EEOC, National Association for Equal Justice in America.  RSVP: t.ly/rYaQy

Tuesday: February 21^st, 6 to 7 pm, via Zoom, Vote Nevada Mental and Behavioral Health Committee: Discussion with the founder of the Cactus Park Elementary School, which is a new charter school focused on mental health.  You can log into the meeting through this link: https://vote-nevada.news/Mental-Health-Committee-Feb

More on Cactus Elementary School: https://nevadabusiness.com/2022/06/student-enrollment-now-open-at-groundbreaking-new-cactus-park-elementary-in-las-vegas/

Thursday: February 23^rd, Noon, via Zoom, EEOC Equity in the Workplace, EEOC, and Nevada Equal Rights Commission. RSVP: t.ly/Nusj

Thursday: February 23^rd, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, via Zoom, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! K-12 Education Civil Rights Community Town Hall with Office of Civil Rights Special Education. RSVP: t.ly/TaSq

Sunday: February 26^th, 1 to 2:30 pm, via Zoom, Vote Nevada & Family to Family, Connections: Early Learning, Mental Health, and Workforce Development. RSVP: https://vote-nevada.news/Early-Learning

Join us for a discussion of how early learning, mental health, and workforce development tie together legislatively.

Friday: March 3^rd, 9 to 10:30 am, via Zoom, Vote Nevada: EEOC Know Your Rights & ACLU NV “We have an equal rights amendment, now what?”  RSVP: t.ly/W_1k

For your reading pleasure, Scott Gavorski has new posts on his Rurals of Nevada blog: https://ruralsofnevada.substack.com/

And the legislative session continues….

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

We are heading into week 2 of the legislative session.  You can view this upcoming week’s calendar of committee hearings and floor sessions here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023

Reminder: You can access all the Vote Nevada advocacy tools and training recordings here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/recorded-advocacy-resources/

And you can watch recordings of Vote Nevada Community Meetings here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/vote-nevada-community-meeting-recordings/

I highly recommend watching Department of Corrections Director James Dzurenda’s presentation from Friday, February 10th. You can access his presentation by going here https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Video/ and then clicking on Assembly Committee on Judiciary.  When the video player opens, click on Agenda, and then click on Presentation by the Nevada Department of Corrections in the Agenda.  This will fast-forward the recording to his presentation.  

After watching the presentation, I am sure you will agree that our mental health crisis must be addressed now, so, let’s come together as Nevadans to start fixing these problems by supporting Director Dzurenda’s budget and bills.

Similarly, in the 2022 primary election, 4,068 mail-in ballots were not counted due to errors such as the voter not signing the back of the ballot envelope.  In the 2022 general election, 5,979 mail-in ballots were not counted due to errors.

Here are the primary election mail-in ballot statistics: https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/home/showpublisheddocument/10798/637957441057530000

Here are the general election mail-in ballot statistics: https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/home/showpublisheddocument/11353/638097234357270000

Election and voting issues are contentious this legislative session, so, it may take recommendations from we the people to figure out how to reduce the number of mail-in ballots going uncounted in our elections.  

If you have any ideas, election laws and processes are managed by the Legislative Operations and Elections Committees.  You can submit ideas to committee members through the Assembly Committee here https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Committee/394/Overview

And through the Senate Committee here https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Committee/404/Overview

Tomorrow, February 13^th at 1:30 pm, the Carson City Democratic Men’s Club is hosting Amber Falgout, Northern Nevada Manager for Battle Born Progress.  If you would like to attend via Zoom, email richdunn as one word and then @aol.com.

Indivisible Northern Nevada is hosting their Legislative Education Priorities Zoom meeting on Wednesday, February 15^th at 5 pm.   You can receive the link by RSVP’ing here: t.ly/oqEl

The UNLV Lady Rebels won their 15^th straight game yesterday! The team’s next home game is this Thursday, February 16^th at 6:30 pm.  Tickets are just $1 at the Cox Pavilion, so parking is free.  You can purchase tickets and see streaming options here: https://unlvrebels.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule/2022-23

I am sure we’ve all heard about the new Forward Party, but many of us have questions.  So, I have invited the Nevada Forward Party’s Chair Cesar Marquez to join me for a discussion on Saturday, February 18^th from 9 to 10 am.  We will review the history of American political parties and then look at how the Forward Party fits into that history.  You can review Forward Party information here: https://www.forwardparty.com/

You can RSVP for Saturday’s meeting here: https://vote-nevada.news/What-Is-The-Forward-Party

And Nevada NOW is hosting a Celebrating Black History Month Zoom event on Sunday, February 19^th from 4 to 5:30 pm. You can receive the link by RSVP’ing here: t.ly/M_6r

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Vote Nevada Supporters,

The legislative session started yesterday and is in full swing today.  You can now see how NELIS works: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023

You can watch yesterday’s floor session recordings here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Video/

All of Vote Nevada’s legislative advocacy resources and training videos are on our blog: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/

Today the Nevada Independent also published a guide for legislative engagement, which is very good, here: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/indy-resource-guide-participating-in-the-legislative-session

New civic engagers ask me about my own process for evaluating bills, so I wrote up a worksheet that includes all the questions I ask when I read a bill.  Click the Word link to download the bill analysis tool if you think it might also help you. You can also open the tool as a PDF.

Vote Nevada Bill Analysis Tool 2023

Vote Nevada Bill Analysis Tool 2023 PDF

The UNLV Lady Rebels are playing this Thursday, Feb. 9^th, at 5 pm.  You can find tickets and streaming options on the team’s game schedule: https://unlvrebels.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule/2022-23

Thanks for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada Supporters,

Tomorrow is the big day!  The legislature kicks off tomorrow, February 6^th, with sessions on each legislative floor.  The Assembly is set to gavel in at 11 am and the Senate will gavel in one hour later at noon. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023

Now let’s review what “legislative time” is: Legislative meetings usually start on time at the beginning of the session and then the meeting start times become increasingly irregular as the session progresses.  This is especially the case as we approach deadlines. 

So, “legislative time” means meetings just start when they start.  One way to keep from sitting at your computer unproductively staring at an empty hearing room is to start the meeting’s live stream and then keep working until you hear the meeting gaveled into order.

Reporters in the building often also provide a “heads up” on Twitter through the #nvleg hashtag if they hear that a meeting is about to start. If you are new to Twitter and would like to use it to follow along during the legislative session, here are some social media training workshops: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/social-media-training-sessions/

The first legislative floor sessions are mostly ceremonial and handle housekeeping measures, such as adopting rules and a budget to fund the session.  Starting Tuesday, both houses will have floor sessions to start reading and assigning bills to committees. Once the committees have bills, each will start scheduling the first hearings. 

Reminder, you can view all of Vote Nevada’s legislative advocacy workshop recordings here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/recorded-advocacy-resources/

I also recommend watching The Nevada Independent conversation with Governor Lombardo for more details on his priorities and governing approach. https://youtu.be/zQIYQ0pUFv8

Regardless of political party affiliations, elected leaders represent all of us; it is, therefore, important for every community member to engage with our elected leaders as constituents.  We only have 120 days to get the state’s business completed, so there is no time to waste.  Let civility be our guide.

Some upcoming events:

Tomorrow, February 6^th, at 1:30 pm, the Carson City Democratic Men’s Club luncheon speaker is Sam Shad, the host of Nevada Newsmakers.   You can watch recordings of Nevada Newsmakers here: http://www.nevadanewsmakers.com/

If you would like to Zoom into the meeting, please email Rich Dunn at richdunn as one word and then @aol.com

On February 15^th, from 5 to 6 pm, via Zoom, Northern Nevada Indivisible is hosting a meeting: Education Priorities in the NV 2023 Legislature. “To help you get informed on legislative proposals in education—and their likely consequences—we have asked Calen Evans, President of the Washoe Education Association, to be our guest speaker.”

Register HERE https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-utrDwoEtYIxmvHliyCbCeFvFOx3f2A

On February 19^th, from 4 to 5:30 pm, Nevada NOW is hosting a Celebration of Black History Month via Zoom.  You can RSVP here: t.ly/gXiXn

The Nevada Women’s Business Center is offering webinars for all entrepreneurs in February.  Here’s the organization’s website: https://nevadawbc.org/

And if you are interested in Veterans for Political Innovation, you can reach out to the organization through their website: https://www.veteransforpoliticalinnovation.org/

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

Vote Nevada: Solving Problems with Civics

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Congresswoman Peltola shared with us how she navigated Alaska’s new election process that Alaska voters approved in 2020.  Alaska adopted open primaries with an instant runoff in the general election.  In the open primary, Mary Peltola’s name shared a ballot with 47 similar candidates who hoped to win Alaska’s lone seat in the House of Representatives.  

Under the new process, the top 4 candidates moved forward into the general election.  One of those candidates dropped out, leaving 3 candidates to compete in the general election.

The other two candidates were Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, both Republicans.  In the special election, Mary Peltola won the most votes, but not the 50 percent needed to win under the new process.  So, the candidate with the least number of votes, Nick Begich, dropped off and the election officials looked to see who his voters picked as their second-choice candidate. 

Under the new process, voters rank candidates by preference, but even one vote counts.  Half of Nick Begich’s voters picked Sarah Palin as their second choice, so their votes moved to Sarah Palin.  Of the remaining half of Begich’s voters, one-half, or one-quarter of Nick Begich’s voters, voted for Mary Peltola, and the remaining one-quarter decided to not pick a second choice.

This gave Mary Peltola enough votes to cross the 50 percent threshold to win.  In this process we learned who the consensus candidate was, it was Mary Peltola.  The reason Representative Peltola won rested on her appeal to most voters to be either their first or second-choice candidate.

You can see the Alaska election department’s tabulation of the House special election here: https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22SSPG/RcvDetailedReport.pdf

This process repeated almost the same in the general election.  In the general election, there were four candidates.  You can see the Alaska election department’s tabulation of the House general election here: https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22GENR/US%20REP.pdf

You can read more about Alaska’s special and regular elections here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/30/americas-weirdest-voters-test-its-newest-voting-system-00059376

You can read some analysis of Mary Peltola’s campaigning style and how it aligned with ranked choice voting: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0105/We-re-all-on-the-same-team-Inside-the-Alaska-model-for-US-politics

You can watch the recording of our meeting with Mary Peltola here: https://vote-nevada.news/Mary-Peltola-Webinar-Recording

Nevada is also considering adopting election reforms like what Alaska used in 2022.  This was Ballot Question 3 on the 2022 ballot and will be Ballot Question 3 on your 2024 ballot.  You can learn more about Ballot Question 3 here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/top-5-open-primary-with-ranked-choice-voting/

If you would like more information about Vote Nevada, please visit: https://vote-nevada.org/ and https://vote-nevada-blog.org/

If you would like to know more about Veterans for Political Innovation, please visit: https://www.veteransforpoliticalinnovation.org/

And if you are interested in the Forward Party, please visit here: https://www.forwardparty.com/

Thank you again for attending today’s webinar.

Sondra Cosgrove

Eric Bronner

Vote Nevada Supporters,

If you would like to meet Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola tomorrow morning, January 30^th, at 8:30 am via Zoom webinar, please RSVP here: https://vote-nevada.news/Meet-Congresswoman-Peltola

If you cannot attend in person, but you would like to receive a link to the webinar’s recording, please RSVP and I will send the meeting recording link out through the RSVP list as soon as the meeting concludes. 

The Carson City Democratic Men’s Committee luncheon speaker tomorrow, 1/30, at 1:30 via Zoom, is Jodi Hocking, the Executive Director of Return Strong. Return Strong started as a group of women with incarcerated loved ones who advocated for transparency and accountability in Nevada’s prisons during the pandemic.  The group is continuing to advocate for prison and justice reforms.  If you would like the link for the meeting, please email Rich Dunn at richdunn as one word and then @aol.com.

The Legislative Commission Budget Subcommittee continues to meet through February 2^nd to hear state agency budgets and the priorities of state agency heads.  You can see the calendar of meetings, along with links for live-streaming and each hearing’s agenda, on the Scheduled Meetings page here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/

If you missed any of the meetings last week or would like to review the recordings of this week’s meetings, you can view meeting recordings here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Video/

On Wednesday, February 1^st, Hispanics in Politics is focusing on the homeless count and the policy implications of persistent homelessness.  The HIP breakfast is at Dona Maria at 910 S. Las Vegas Blvd.  More information here https://fb.me/e/5U7WhgiVa

The legislative session starts on February 6^th, so, if you haven’t yet attended an advocacy training workshop, the Vote Nevada recorded meetings on how to use the legislative website, how to use Slack, and how to use social media platforms, are all here: https://vote-nevada-blog.org/recorded-advocacy-resources/

There are 907 bill draft requests for this legislative session, so, there are still quite a few bills to be written between now and the February 6^th start date.  Not all bills will be in full form at the beginning of the session, so, we will need to watch the legislation page on NELIS closely for the next few weeks. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bills/List

You can watch the Governor’s State of the State Address recording here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Video/

And you can view the Executive Budget on the Session Info page, about halfway down: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/

Clark County School Board Meeting Information: https://ccsd.net/trustees/

Washoe County School Board Meeting Information: https://www.washoeschools.net/Page/4680

Carson City School Board Meeting Information: https://www.carsoncityschools.com/school_board/school_board_meetings

Elko County School Board Meetings: https://www.ecsdnv.net/Board-of-Trustees

Lastly, the Lady Rebels won yesterday! 80 to 57 https://twitter.com/UNLVLadyRebels/status/1619481882286227456?s=20&t=3fxh3a-mqvoccD14LAoJ8g

And the house was full! https://twitter.com/UNLVLadyRebels/status/1619480780291592192?s=20&t=3fxh3a-mqvoccD14LAoJ8g

Thanks to everyone who attended.  The Lady Rebels have 8 games left in the regular season, so, there are more opportunities to see this awesome team!  Tickets are just $6 dollars and kids are free.  You can find tickets and options for live-streaming games on the team’s schedule page:  https://unlvrebels.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule/2022-23

Thank you for being Nevadans with me,

Sondra

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