Support the CIR at the Petaluma City council
Support the CIR at the Petaluma City council

Monday, June 16th, 2008 7:00 PM

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May 5th Petaluma City Council turnout
Support the Proposed Community Impact Report for Retail Development in Petaluma
Save the Date: Monday, May 5th, 2008 7:00 PM
Petaluma City Council 11 English St., Petaluma

The Living Wage Coalition, Petaluma Neighborhood Association, Petaluma Community Coalition, Petaluma Independent Business Association, Sonoma County Conservation Action and Petaluma Tomorrow have introduced a proposed Community Impact Report (CIR) requirement for new large retail developments to the City of Petaluma. The City Council will consider our CIR ordinance and discuss a staff report at this meeting. The CIR is an innovative policy tool that can help policy-makers and staff to make informed decisions about proposed large commercial retail. The CIR complements the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) by considering the potential impacts of proposed large retail projects on small businesses, public health and social services, job quality, and affordable housing. Our legislation is similar to CIR requirements adopted in other California cities such as San Diego and Los Angeles, and a recent state law passed in Maine, the Informed Growth Act. A CIR will encourage more sustainable and equitable development in the City of Petaluma, and can serve as a model for other cities in the county.

Please come to the City Council meeting on Monday, May 5th to demonstrate your support for Community Impact Reports.
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Petaluma City Council 11 English St., Petaluma

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Petaluma joins 'living wage' cities
NOVEMBER 2006
The Petaluma City Council approved a living wage ordinance that would require employers to pay $11.70 an hour with benefits or $13.20 an hour without. This ordinance would apply to city employees and companies that do business
with the city.
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Workers Can Act Locally to Raise Wages
SEPT 2006
We should commend Governor Schwarzenegger for supporting an increase of the state minimum wage from $6.75 to $8.00 an hour by 2008. Wealth and income inequalities have reached levels not experienced in California since the 1930s. Raising the minimum wage can ease problems such inequities create...
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Petaluma Third Local City to Adopt 'Living Wage' Law
NOVEMEBER 2006
Petaluma's City Council on Monday voted unanimously to adopt a "living wage" law, joining two other Sonoma County cities that have passed similar ordinances in the past three years.
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LIVING WAGE COALITION IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

Against the Grain is now available as a podcast!
SEPT 2006
KPFA Audio Archives
"Working for a Living" with Marty Bennett, Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County, and Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts hosted by C.S. Soong and produced by Sasha Lilley.
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Forget Washington, all GOOD Politics is Local: States, Cities go for Living Wage, Clean Elections, and Medical Pot
FEBRUARY 2006
What an embarrassment our national government is. Mired in the sickening muck of corrupt corporate money and right-wing ideology, our so-called leaders continue to divert our public treasury and our nation's unlimited potential for good into war, into the pockets of the superrich, into the self-serving whims of greedheaded corporate executives, into a rising police state, into the careless desecration of nature into waste.
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What Is a Living Wage?
JANUARY 15, 2006
For a few weeks in the summer of 1995, Jen Kern spent her days at a table in the Library of Congress in Washington, poring over the fine print of state constitutions from around the country. This was, at the time, a somewhat-eccentric strategy to fight poverty in America. (MORE)

Minimum Security
JULY 12, 2004
Over the past ten years, a host of scrappy grassroots campaigns across the country have successfully pushed through living-wage ordinances in 112 cities and counties. The individual wins are significant, but they add up to a big-picture victory, too--the expression 'living wage' has seeped into the national discourse, along with the notion that working families shouldn't have to rely on public assistance or private charity to make it from month to month. (MORE)

Money for Nothing
AUG 14, 2003
It was the dream of economic development that inspired officials in Caledonia, Minnesota, to give a Dairy Queen franchise a $275,000 tax subsidy in 1996. One problem: The largesse created exactly one job, at $4.50 an hour. (MORE)

Living Wage Comes of Age
JULY 23, 2001
When the nation's first living-wage ordinance passed in Baltimore in 1994--a modest measure that improved the earnings of just 1,500 workers--few could have predicted that a powerful national movement would emerge in its wake. In the ensuing seven years, more than sixty municipalities, pushed by coalitions of local activists, have passed living-wage laws, and some seventy-two campaigns are rolling forward around the country, from New York City to the right-to-work South, not to mention at Harvard University, where students concluded a high-profile living-wage sit-in in May. (MORE)

Living-Wage Movement Takes Root Across Nation
JULY 24, 2002
Life used to be very hard for Marlene Mendoza. The single mother worked as a waitress at Los Angeles International Airport. At $5.50 an hour, she says she had no choice but to put in 80 hours a week.
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