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They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About","publishDate":1717268405,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don’t Know About | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, CalKIDS began targeting high school seniors, through social media, email and direct mail, according to DeAnda. By May, the number of claims among high school seniors increased by 74%. They have partnered with school districts, such as Hawthorne School District in Los Angeles County, where 87% of seniors have claimed their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most of the funds for marketing CalKIDS remain unused. The 2023–24 California state budget reappropriated $8 million to CalKIDS for a statewide media campaign, and the Scholarshare Investment Board is currently soliciting proposals for marketing services, which were anticipated to start on April 1, but have not begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If families are not aware of this program, then it’s not going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Martinez said.[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"financial-aid\"]The fact that many families don’t start thinking about college until high school is one cultural obstacle that college savings programs like CalKIDS run up against, says Willie Elliott, a professor of social work and founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we can’t expect that we put one of these programs in place, and, instantly, people get it and start functioning in that way,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott has helped develop state and local college savings programs in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C. He says that enrollment is not the best measure of success of programs like CalKIDS, especially this early on in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have in place in California is the infrastructure and now you have to do the work of making communities aware,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests that creating a culture around college savings through programs like CalKIDs will lead to positive outcomes. Those include increased account enrollment, more family conversations about going to college, and generally less stress for families who will be hopeful for their children’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations about college are as important as the amount of money actually in the account, Elliott said. Elliott’s research has shown that lower-income students with a college savings account are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740912004379?via%3Dihub\">attend college\u003c/a> and four times more likely to graduate than students without an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the CalKIDS website. \u003ccite>(CalKIDS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cook, a mother of six who has four children eligible for CalKIDS, is the homeless student advocate at Marysville Joint Unified School District in Yuba County, where she works to support homeless students and help them graduate. She said a lot of the families she works with don’t have college at the top of their mind because they’re thinking about urgent concerns like where they will sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if schools were able to register students, it would be helpful for the families she supports. She also said training for school staff and counselors on the program as well as outreach from California Health and Human Services would help build awareness for schools and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-calkids-joins-local-programs-investing-in-students-education-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">CalKIDS joins local programs investing in students’ education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many students, CalKIDS can be coupled with one of more than a dozen local child’s savings account programs in California. Launched in 2010 by then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newson, Kindergarten to College was the first program in the country to include automatic and universal enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 14 years, the program has been able to refine its outreach efforts to meet the needs of San Franciscans, said Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications at the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector. Students are eligible no matter their documentation status and can easily make cash deposits into their accounts.[aside label=\"Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"california-colleges\"]“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The state is directly investing money for lower-income students and all newborns to attend college. After 2 years, the program is still not widely known by the students who need the most financial assistance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717269311,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1826},"headData":{"title":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About | KQED","description":"The state is directly investing money for lower-income students and all newborns to attend college. After 2 years, the program is still not widely known by the students who need the most financial assistance.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About","datePublished":"2024-06-01T12:00:05-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-01T12:15:11-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jacqueline-munis/\">Jacqueline Munis\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988452","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988452/raising-kids-in-california-they-may-have-college-savings-accounts-you-dont-know-about","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, CalKIDS began targeting high school seniors, through social media, email and direct mail, according to DeAnda. By May, the number of claims among high school seniors increased by 74%. They have partnered with school districts, such as Hawthorne School District in Los Angeles County, where 87% of seniors have claimed their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most of the funds for marketing CalKIDS remain unused. The 2023–24 California state budget reappropriated $8 million to CalKIDS for a statewide media campaign, and the Scholarshare Investment Board is currently soliciting proposals for marketing services, which were anticipated to start on April 1, but have not begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If families are not aware of this program, then it’s not going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories ","tag":"financial-aid"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fact that many families don’t start thinking about college until high school is one cultural obstacle that college savings programs like CalKIDS run up against, says Willie Elliott, a professor of social work and founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we can’t expect that we put one of these programs in place, and, instantly, people get it and start functioning in that way,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott has helped develop state and local college savings programs in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C. He says that enrollment is not the best measure of success of programs like CalKIDS, especially this early on in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have in place in California is the infrastructure and now you have to do the work of making communities aware,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests that creating a culture around college savings through programs like CalKIDs will lead to positive outcomes. Those include increased account enrollment, more family conversations about going to college, and generally less stress for families who will be hopeful for their children’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations about college are as important as the amount of money actually in the account, Elliott said. Elliott’s research has shown that lower-income students with a college savings account are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740912004379?via%3Dihub\">attend college\u003c/a> and four times more likely to graduate than students without an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the CalKIDS website. \u003ccite>(CalKIDS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cook, a mother of six who has four children eligible for CalKIDS, is the homeless student advocate at Marysville Joint Unified School District in Yuba County, where she works to support homeless students and help them graduate. She said a lot of the families she works with don’t have college at the top of their mind because they’re thinking about urgent concerns like where they will sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if schools were able to register students, it would be helpful for the families she supports. She also said training for school staff and counselors on the program as well as outreach from California Health and Human Services would help build awareness for schools and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-calkids-joins-local-programs-investing-in-students-education-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">CalKIDS joins local programs investing in students’ education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many students, CalKIDS can be coupled with one of more than a dozen local child’s savings account programs in California. Launched in 2010 by then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newson, Kindergarten to College was the first program in the country to include automatic and universal enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 14 years, the program has been able to refine its outreach efforts to meet the needs of San Franciscans, said Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications at the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector. Students are eligible no matter their documentation status and can easily make cash deposits into their accounts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Higher Education Stories ","tag":"california-colleges"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988452/raising-kids-in-california-they-may-have-college-savings-accounts-you-dont-know-about","authors":["byline_news_11988452"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_33638","news_31933","news_22810","news_32239","news_20013","news_30211","news_22697"],"featImg":"news_11988478","label":"news"},"news_11988472":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988472","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988472","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","title":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US)","publishDate":1717239648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What to Know About Mexico’s Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US) | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987267/mexican-citizens-in-california-could-play-key-role-in-countrys-upcoming-election\">millions of Mexican voters will head to the polls \u003c/a>to elect the country’s next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this election, two female candidates are leading the polls — something never seen before in the history of Mexico. And whoever wins out of the two will become the first female president to lead the nation of 126 million people with one of the biggest economies in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Are you a Mexican citizen in the Bay Area and want to vote in this election? You may still be able to\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Poll after poll show Claudia Sheinbaum, former Mayor of Mexico City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">at least 20 points ahead of her closest rival\u003c/a>, Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum represents the left-leaning MORENA party which has been in power since 2018, when outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who is also known as “AMLO”) won the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gálvez, on the other hand, leads a coalition of three parties that have historically been bitter rivals but have come together to oppose MORENA — a party that has existed for less than 15 years but under AMLO’s leadership has amassed an incredible amount of power in all branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s Sheinbaum or Gálvez — or long-shot third-party candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez who’s polling at 10% — whoever voters elect to succeed AMLO will face monumental challenges. The country has experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/cme-group/2023/06/01/mexico-is-outpacing-latam-economies-can-it-continue/?sh=10fea61146b4\">strong economic growth in recent years\u003c/a> but climate change and economic inequality threaten that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in Mexico is of enormous importance to the United States — and nowhere is that more important than in California,” said Harley Shaiken, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, who previously led the university’s Center for Latin American Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials will announce the presidential winner on Sunday night, sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. PST. Ahead of the big announcement, we’ve brought together the big Mexican election stories to watch out for this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Could Sheinbaum match her mentor AMLO?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In politics, nothing is ever certain. But the general consensus is that Sheinbaum’s sizable and consistent lead in every major poll for the past two years now makes this her race to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheinbaum, however, does not have the same appeal as her mentor AMLO, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-sheinbaum-lopez-obrador-e7e0b95c4812f4c4504a5e1803328aad\">who is by far the more popular of the two politicians\u003c/a>. In 2018, AMLO swept into power with 54% of the vote in a four-way race — a feat not seen since the 1980s, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or PRI in Spanish) \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Institutional-Revolutionary-Party\">held almost absolute control over Mexican politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claudia Sheinbaum is underrated by many,” said Shaiken. “She governed Mexico City for five years under very difficult circumstances and has some impressive things to show for that in the area of policing, renewable energy and community development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of ‘Sigamos Haciendo Historia’ coalition waves to supporters during the 2024 closing campaign event at Zocalo on May 29, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Hector Vivas/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One frequent criticism the opposition has leveled at Sheinbaum is that she’s heavily influenced by AMLO, and that a Sheinbaum presidency would in fact just be a second AMLO term. But Shaiken doesn’t buy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has she been close to López Obrador? Positively … but she’s her own person,” he added. “One area where I think we will see some very different things is in the environment,” said Shaiken, noting that Sheinbaum has a PhD in energy engineering and “has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/sheinbaum-planea-gastar-miles-de-millones-en-plantas-solares-y-de-gas\">very committed to doing things on solar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Sheinbaum can match — or potentially exceed — AMLO’s electoral success could ultimately show whether she can wield as much political influence as her mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the role of Mexicans abroad in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 12 million Mexicans live outside Mexico — and 97% live in the United States. For months, Mexican consulates across the U.S. have been promoting the different ways Mexicans living abroad can vote in this year’s presidential contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/elecciones2018\">roughly 98,000 Mexicans abroad voted in that year’s election\u003c/a> — an extremely tiny fraction of the eligible population. But this year, Mexican officials have invested more time and resources to engage the diaspora with the voting process, said María Antonieta Mejía, reporter with Univision 14 Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía has covered many Mexican elections, both from Mexico and the U.S., and this year she’s specifically been following efforts by consulates locally to inform the Mexican community in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the San Francisco and San José consulates have been very open in talking to folks who want to get their INE cards,” she said, pointing at multiple workshops held on Saturdays where Mexican nationals could register for an INE card without needing an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez of ‘Fuerza y Corazón por México’ coalition speaks, during the 2024 closing campaign event at Arena Monterrey on May 29, 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Medios y Media/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of her reporting, Mejía spoke to dozens of Mexican families now living in the Bay Area about their attitudes to the election. Those who told her they \u003cem>weren’t \u003c/em>planning to vote cited reasons like not having their INE voter card in time, or that it wasn’t a priority “because they have been living here for so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mejía also met Mexican nationals who were very engaged with the electoral process — and still felt heavily invested in the country’s politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, “many are sending remittances back, others still have a lot of family in their hometowns,” she said. Millions of Mexicans working in the U.S. frequently send some of their wages back to their families. Last year, Mexicans abroad sent back \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-remittances-record-money-migrants-275a49302e840fdaa8060d5cab9c7a24\">a total of $63.3 billion\u003c/a>, making remittances \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/manufacturing-remittances-tourism-and-oil-key-factors-for-mexicos-economy-in-2020-and-beyond\">one of the biggest contributors to Mexico’s GDP\u003c/a> — a testament to the outsize role the diaspora plays in the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for party support, “both MORENA and its partisans have — to my knowledge — been the most active here,” she said, and “it’s been difficult to find any type of political activity at their level organized by the opposition parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AMLO visited San Francisco last November during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, a Bay Area group of very energetic fans of the Mexican president — who call themselves “AMLOvers” — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/biden-to-meet-with-mexicos-president-l-pez-obrador\">quickly organized a rally outside the APEC security zone to express their loyalty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that in the Bay Area, the number of Mexican nationals who vote on Sunday will be in the hundreds. “When we talk about numbers, this may not seem big,” she said. “But this moment is important, because it opens the door to more people participating in the electoral process in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much more can AMLO’s party win?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Besides the presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-explainer-claudia-sheinbaum-xochitl-galvez-59fc84d8e757675ea9c5110f700e09bc\">more than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs\u003c/a> in Sunday’s Mexican elections. MORENA controls both chambers of Congress and keeping that majority is essential for Sheinbaum to follow through on campaign promises, including a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality between men and women and having Supreme Court justices picked by popular vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the table on Election Day is the head of government for Mexico City and the governor’s seat in eight states: Jalisco, Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos, Tabasco and Yucatán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MORENA and its allies already hold power in Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Morelos and Tabasco but are looking to win over the remaining three. If they do so, that would deal a significant blow to the opposition, as each of these states hold significant economic and symbolic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jalisco, an economic powerhouse, is currently governed by the center-left Citizen’s Movement Party and \u003ca href=\"https://politico.mx/quien-va-ganando-las-encuestas-en-jalisco-pablo-lemus-claudia-delgadillo-o-laura-haro-segun-polls-mx\">their candidate is hanging onto a slim advantage over MORENA in state polls\u003c/a>. The conservative Party for National Action (or PAN in Spanish), which has been the loudest voice of opposition against AMLO, holds Guanajuato and Yucatán — and has invested millions of pesos in keeping these two states in their roster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If MORENA manages to pull off these wins, they will control 26 out of 32 states, something only the PRI managed to do \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/life-after-dictatorship/mexicos-pri/9CEDCDB3A6847B72D413A5BF490A4FA4\">when it held almost absolute power over Mexico for more than six decades\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Álvarez Máynez, the long-shot Mexican presidential candidate of the Citizens & Movement party (MC), is campaigning in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, seeking the youth vote at the CETYS University campus. Maynez, the only male candidate in the race, is trailing both front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena ruling party and opponent Xochitl Galvez of the PRI-PAN-PRD opposition coalition in national polls. \u003ccite>(Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If the opposition doesn’t beat MORENA, what then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this race, Xóchitl Gálvez may be in the trickiest position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She represents a coalition made up of Mexico’s three historic parties: The right-leaning PAN, the moderate PRI and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (or PRD in Spanish) on the left. For decades, these parties have been at odds with each other — but MORENA’s rapid growth forced the three to put ideological differences aside and stick together to have a shot at the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all three parties \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cv22e6g3x59o\">are very unpopular among voters\u003c/a>. And rather than galvanize their bases, this union has frequently highlighted the ideological gulfs between each of the coalition parties. Take the issue of abortion, for example. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198039758/mexico-abortion-decriminalization-supreme-court\">As access to abortion expands in Mexico\u003c/a>, the PAN remains firmly opposed to abortion while the PRD supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gálvez was asked by an abortion rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/urielesqueda4/status/1707397006665126127\">about her stance on abortion last September\u003c/a>, she replied that as a coalition candidate, she represents multiple viewpoints and in turn, must represent each different viewpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team has responded to these contradictions by instead positioning Gálvez as first and foremost the candidate for those frustrated with AMLO and MORENA. But this message hasn’t yet convinced voters: Gálvez \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">has consistently polled somewhere between the high 20s and low 30s\u003c/a>, a long way from Sheinbaum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the Citizens’ Movement Party, has polled even lower, sticking to the low 10s. He’s employed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/elecciones-2024/canciones-y-tiktoks-la-estrategia-de-maynez-para-colocarse-entre-los-jovenes-11999278.html\">a social media-heavy strategy in order to court youth votes\u003c/a> and has targeted MORENA’s left-leaning flank by promoting policies AMLO hasn’t yet taken on, such as establishing a progressive tax scheme. Support for Álvarez Máynez still remains largely concentrated in his party’s strongholds of Jalisco and Nuevo León.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If election results match the polls and Gálvez loses by a big margin, that could spell the end of her coalition. “I think we will definitely see soul-searching,” said Shaiken of such a potential loss at the ballot box. “Both the Citizens’ Movement and the coalition that Gálvez leads are looking towards the future. They know the die is cast for this Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re going to see whether they meet expectations — or do they exceed them? That could be an important difference as to where they go,” predicted Shaiken.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What could this election spell for AMLO’s legacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to constitutional rules, AMLO cannot run for reelection. But the outgoing president has transformed the political landscape of Mexico since he first entered the national spotlight back in 2000, when he was elected mayor of Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his three presidential runs (in 2006, 2012 and his successful 2018 campaign), AMLO \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicans-say-they-will-vote-for-change-on-sunday-1530264601\">crisscrossed the country building a massive network of fervent supporters\u003c/a>. By railing against the political and economic elite, he won the votes of millions of Mexicans living in poverty, who he frequently refers to as “el pueblo bueno y sabio” — “the good and wise working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is speaking at a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day and the signing of the decree to create the Pension Fund for Welfare. \u003ccite>(Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As president, AMLO has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2022/11/16/mexicos-presidents-social-programs-are-effective-at-boosting-his-popularity/?sh=727b4acb3688\">dozens of social welfare programs that directly benefit the country’s elderly and poorest families\u003c/a>. His government has also poured billions of dollars in infrastructure projects all over Mexico, notably in states that historically have seen little investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while polls show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/la-aprobacion-de-amlo-sube-al-60-a-un-mes-de-las-elecciones/\">a majority of Mexicans still support AMLO\u003c/a>, others have become frustrated with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/the-end-of-macronism/\">Jupiterian style of governing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO’s critics — be they opposition politicians, journalists or community organizers — have often found themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-23/amlo-says-he-doesn-t-regret-sharing-nyt-reporter-s-number\">quickly and publicly discredited by the president in his morning press briefings\u003c/a>. He shrugs off criticism that homicides across Mexico have continued to increase during his term — “I have other data,” he says — \u003ca href=\"https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Suman-171085-homicidios-en-el-sexenio-de-AMLO-20240117-0008.html\">despite these numbers coming from his own government’s agencies\u003c/a>. And many former allies have left MORENA in response to AMLO’s close relationship with the military, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels\">an institution accused of violence and civil rights violations against journalists and civilians\u003c/a> during the country’s war against drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been concerns from international groups, including the United States, about Mexico sliding away from democratic practice in certain areas,” Shaiken said. “That’s going to be a challenge that Claudia Sheinbaum will face if she actually becomes president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO has repeatedly said that once his term ends, he will completely exit the public sphere and retire to his ranch called “La Chingada” in the southwest state of Chiapas. But it’s nonetheless difficult to imagine this outsized personality that has dominated Mexican politics for decades will fully disappear from the halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>I’m a Mexican national — can I still vote in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the National Electoral Institute (or INE in Spanish) provided Mexicans abroad with three different ways to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">\u003cstrong>Voting by mail:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This option has been available for multiple election cycles. Eligible Mexican citizens needed to register with the INE weeks in advance for this option. If you chose this voting method, you should have already received your ballot by mail. INE officials recommend \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">you complete it and mail it back as soon as you can so it arrives in Mexico before June 2\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">\u003cstrong>Voting electronically:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Eligible voters should have registered for this option by May 3. If you chose this voting method, you should have received an email from the INE with instructions on how to access the voting portal. \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">You have till 5 p.m. PST on June 2 to complete your electronic ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">\u003cstrong>Voting on the day of the election at your nearest consulate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> If you didn’t register for the other two options and still want to vote in this year’s presidential election, this is now your only available option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, go to the consulate that is nearest to you and let officials know that you are there to vote in the election (see the \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">locations of participating consulates and available voting times\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: You will need to have a valid INE voter card to access a voting booth. If you do not have an INE card, you will not be able to vote (American state IDs or other identification will not be accepted.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Millions of Mexicans will be going to the polls for Mexico's presidential elections Sunday. Here's everything you need to know, from the main candidates and issues to how you can vote from the US. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717204369,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2714},"headData":{"title":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US) | KQED","description":"Millions of Mexicans will be going to the polls for Mexico's presidential elections Sunday. Here's everything you need to know, from the main candidates and issues to how you can vote from the US. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US)","datePublished":"2024-06-01T04:00:48-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T18:12:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988472/what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987267/mexican-citizens-in-california-could-play-key-role-in-countrys-upcoming-election\">millions of Mexican voters will head to the polls \u003c/a>to elect the country’s next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this election, two female candidates are leading the polls — something never seen before in the history of Mexico. And whoever wins out of the two will become the first female president to lead the nation of 126 million people with one of the biggest economies in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Are you a Mexican citizen in the Bay Area and want to vote in this election? You may still be able to\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Poll after poll show Claudia Sheinbaum, former Mayor of Mexico City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">at least 20 points ahead of her closest rival\u003c/a>, Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum represents the left-leaning MORENA party which has been in power since 2018, when outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who is also known as “AMLO”) won the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gálvez, on the other hand, leads a coalition of three parties that have historically been bitter rivals but have come together to oppose MORENA — a party that has existed for less than 15 years but under AMLO’s leadership has amassed an incredible amount of power in all branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s Sheinbaum or Gálvez — or long-shot third-party candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez who’s polling at 10% — whoever voters elect to succeed AMLO will face monumental challenges. The country has experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/cme-group/2023/06/01/mexico-is-outpacing-latam-economies-can-it-continue/?sh=10fea61146b4\">strong economic growth in recent years\u003c/a> but climate change and economic inequality threaten that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in Mexico is of enormous importance to the United States — and nowhere is that more important than in California,” said Harley Shaiken, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, who previously led the university’s Center for Latin American Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials will announce the presidential winner on Sunday night, sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. PST. Ahead of the big announcement, we’ve brought together the big Mexican election stories to watch out for this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Could Sheinbaum match her mentor AMLO?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In politics, nothing is ever certain. But the general consensus is that Sheinbaum’s sizable and consistent lead in every major poll for the past two years now makes this her race to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheinbaum, however, does not have the same appeal as her mentor AMLO, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-sheinbaum-lopez-obrador-e7e0b95c4812f4c4504a5e1803328aad\">who is by far the more popular of the two politicians\u003c/a>. In 2018, AMLO swept into power with 54% of the vote in a four-way race — a feat not seen since the 1980s, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or PRI in Spanish) \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Institutional-Revolutionary-Party\">held almost absolute control over Mexican politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claudia Sheinbaum is underrated by many,” said Shaiken. “She governed Mexico City for five years under very difficult circumstances and has some impressive things to show for that in the area of policing, renewable energy and community development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of ‘Sigamos Haciendo Historia’ coalition waves to supporters during the 2024 closing campaign event at Zocalo on May 29, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Hector Vivas/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One frequent criticism the opposition has leveled at Sheinbaum is that she’s heavily influenced by AMLO, and that a Sheinbaum presidency would in fact just be a second AMLO term. But Shaiken doesn’t buy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has she been close to López Obrador? Positively … but she’s her own person,” he added. “One area where I think we will see some very different things is in the environment,” said Shaiken, noting that Sheinbaum has a PhD in energy engineering and “has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/sheinbaum-planea-gastar-miles-de-millones-en-plantas-solares-y-de-gas\">very committed to doing things on solar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Sheinbaum can match — or potentially exceed — AMLO’s electoral success could ultimately show whether she can wield as much political influence as her mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the role of Mexicans abroad in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 12 million Mexicans live outside Mexico — and 97% live in the United States. For months, Mexican consulates across the U.S. have been promoting the different ways Mexicans living abroad can vote in this year’s presidential contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/elecciones2018\">roughly 98,000 Mexicans abroad voted in that year’s election\u003c/a> — an extremely tiny fraction of the eligible population. But this year, Mexican officials have invested more time and resources to engage the diaspora with the voting process, said María Antonieta Mejía, reporter with Univision 14 Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía has covered many Mexican elections, both from Mexico and the U.S., and this year she’s specifically been following efforts by consulates locally to inform the Mexican community in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the San Francisco and San José consulates have been very open in talking to folks who want to get their INE cards,” she said, pointing at multiple workshops held on Saturdays where Mexican nationals could register for an INE card without needing an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez of ‘Fuerza y Corazón por México’ coalition speaks, during the 2024 closing campaign event at Arena Monterrey on May 29, 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Medios y Media/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of her reporting, Mejía spoke to dozens of Mexican families now living in the Bay Area about their attitudes to the election. Those who told her they \u003cem>weren’t \u003c/em>planning to vote cited reasons like not having their INE voter card in time, or that it wasn’t a priority “because they have been living here for so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mejía also met Mexican nationals who were very engaged with the electoral process — and still felt heavily invested in the country’s politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, “many are sending remittances back, others still have a lot of family in their hometowns,” she said. Millions of Mexicans working in the U.S. frequently send some of their wages back to their families. Last year, Mexicans abroad sent back \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-remittances-record-money-migrants-275a49302e840fdaa8060d5cab9c7a24\">a total of $63.3 billion\u003c/a>, making remittances \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/manufacturing-remittances-tourism-and-oil-key-factors-for-mexicos-economy-in-2020-and-beyond\">one of the biggest contributors to Mexico’s GDP\u003c/a> — a testament to the outsize role the diaspora plays in the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for party support, “both MORENA and its partisans have — to my knowledge — been the most active here,” she said, and “it’s been difficult to find any type of political activity at their level organized by the opposition parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AMLO visited San Francisco last November during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, a Bay Area group of very energetic fans of the Mexican president — who call themselves “AMLOvers” — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/biden-to-meet-with-mexicos-president-l-pez-obrador\">quickly organized a rally outside the APEC security zone to express their loyalty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that in the Bay Area, the number of Mexican nationals who vote on Sunday will be in the hundreds. “When we talk about numbers, this may not seem big,” she said. “But this moment is important, because it opens the door to more people participating in the electoral process in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much more can AMLO’s party win?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Besides the presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-explainer-claudia-sheinbaum-xochitl-galvez-59fc84d8e757675ea9c5110f700e09bc\">more than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs\u003c/a> in Sunday’s Mexican elections. MORENA controls both chambers of Congress and keeping that majority is essential for Sheinbaum to follow through on campaign promises, including a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality between men and women and having Supreme Court justices picked by popular vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the table on Election Day is the head of government for Mexico City and the governor’s seat in eight states: Jalisco, Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos, Tabasco and Yucatán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MORENA and its allies already hold power in Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Morelos and Tabasco but are looking to win over the remaining three. If they do so, that would deal a significant blow to the opposition, as each of these states hold significant economic and symbolic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jalisco, an economic powerhouse, is currently governed by the center-left Citizen’s Movement Party and \u003ca href=\"https://politico.mx/quien-va-ganando-las-encuestas-en-jalisco-pablo-lemus-claudia-delgadillo-o-laura-haro-segun-polls-mx\">their candidate is hanging onto a slim advantage over MORENA in state polls\u003c/a>. The conservative Party for National Action (or PAN in Spanish), which has been the loudest voice of opposition against AMLO, holds Guanajuato and Yucatán — and has invested millions of pesos in keeping these two states in their roster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If MORENA manages to pull off these wins, they will control 26 out of 32 states, something only the PRI managed to do \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/life-after-dictatorship/mexicos-pri/9CEDCDB3A6847B72D413A5BF490A4FA4\">when it held almost absolute power over Mexico for more than six decades\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Álvarez Máynez, the long-shot Mexican presidential candidate of the Citizens & Movement party (MC), is campaigning in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, seeking the youth vote at the CETYS University campus. Maynez, the only male candidate in the race, is trailing both front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena ruling party and opponent Xochitl Galvez of the PRI-PAN-PRD opposition coalition in national polls. \u003ccite>(Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If the opposition doesn’t beat MORENA, what then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this race, Xóchitl Gálvez may be in the trickiest position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She represents a coalition made up of Mexico’s three historic parties: The right-leaning PAN, the moderate PRI and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (or PRD in Spanish) on the left. For decades, these parties have been at odds with each other — but MORENA’s rapid growth forced the three to put ideological differences aside and stick together to have a shot at the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all three parties \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cv22e6g3x59o\">are very unpopular among voters\u003c/a>. And rather than galvanize their bases, this union has frequently highlighted the ideological gulfs between each of the coalition parties. Take the issue of abortion, for example. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198039758/mexico-abortion-decriminalization-supreme-court\">As access to abortion expands in Mexico\u003c/a>, the PAN remains firmly opposed to abortion while the PRD supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gálvez was asked by an abortion rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/urielesqueda4/status/1707397006665126127\">about her stance on abortion last September\u003c/a>, she replied that as a coalition candidate, she represents multiple viewpoints and in turn, must represent each different viewpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team has responded to these contradictions by instead positioning Gálvez as first and foremost the candidate for those frustrated with AMLO and MORENA. But this message hasn’t yet convinced voters: Gálvez \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">has consistently polled somewhere between the high 20s and low 30s\u003c/a>, a long way from Sheinbaum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the Citizens’ Movement Party, has polled even lower, sticking to the low 10s. He’s employed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/elecciones-2024/canciones-y-tiktoks-la-estrategia-de-maynez-para-colocarse-entre-los-jovenes-11999278.html\">a social media-heavy strategy in order to court youth votes\u003c/a> and has targeted MORENA’s left-leaning flank by promoting policies AMLO hasn’t yet taken on, such as establishing a progressive tax scheme. Support for Álvarez Máynez still remains largely concentrated in his party’s strongholds of Jalisco and Nuevo León.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If election results match the polls and Gálvez loses by a big margin, that could spell the end of her coalition. “I think we will definitely see soul-searching,” said Shaiken of such a potential loss at the ballot box. “Both the Citizens’ Movement and the coalition that Gálvez leads are looking towards the future. They know the die is cast for this Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re going to see whether they meet expectations — or do they exceed them? That could be an important difference as to where they go,” predicted Shaiken.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What could this election spell for AMLO’s legacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to constitutional rules, AMLO cannot run for reelection. But the outgoing president has transformed the political landscape of Mexico since he first entered the national spotlight back in 2000, when he was elected mayor of Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his three presidential runs (in 2006, 2012 and his successful 2018 campaign), AMLO \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicans-say-they-will-vote-for-change-on-sunday-1530264601\">crisscrossed the country building a massive network of fervent supporters\u003c/a>. By railing against the political and economic elite, he won the votes of millions of Mexicans living in poverty, who he frequently refers to as “el pueblo bueno y sabio” — “the good and wise working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is speaking at a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day and the signing of the decree to create the Pension Fund for Welfare. \u003ccite>(Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As president, AMLO has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2022/11/16/mexicos-presidents-social-programs-are-effective-at-boosting-his-popularity/?sh=727b4acb3688\">dozens of social welfare programs that directly benefit the country’s elderly and poorest families\u003c/a>. His government has also poured billions of dollars in infrastructure projects all over Mexico, notably in states that historically have seen little investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while polls show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/la-aprobacion-de-amlo-sube-al-60-a-un-mes-de-las-elecciones/\">a majority of Mexicans still support AMLO\u003c/a>, others have become frustrated with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/the-end-of-macronism/\">Jupiterian style of governing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO’s critics — be they opposition politicians, journalists or community organizers — have often found themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-23/amlo-says-he-doesn-t-regret-sharing-nyt-reporter-s-number\">quickly and publicly discredited by the president in his morning press briefings\u003c/a>. He shrugs off criticism that homicides across Mexico have continued to increase during his term — “I have other data,” he says — \u003ca href=\"https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Suman-171085-homicidios-en-el-sexenio-de-AMLO-20240117-0008.html\">despite these numbers coming from his own government’s agencies\u003c/a>. And many former allies have left MORENA in response to AMLO’s close relationship with the military, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels\">an institution accused of violence and civil rights violations against journalists and civilians\u003c/a> during the country’s war against drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been concerns from international groups, including the United States, about Mexico sliding away from democratic practice in certain areas,” Shaiken said. “That’s going to be a challenge that Claudia Sheinbaum will face if she actually becomes president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO has repeatedly said that once his term ends, he will completely exit the public sphere and retire to his ranch called “La Chingada” in the southwest state of Chiapas. But it’s nonetheless difficult to imagine this outsized personality that has dominated Mexican politics for decades will fully disappear from the halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>I’m a Mexican national — can I still vote in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the National Electoral Institute (or INE in Spanish) provided Mexicans abroad with three different ways to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">\u003cstrong>Voting by mail:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This option has been available for multiple election cycles. Eligible Mexican citizens needed to register with the INE weeks in advance for this option. If you chose this voting method, you should have already received your ballot by mail. INE officials recommend \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">you complete it and mail it back as soon as you can so it arrives in Mexico before June 2\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">\u003cstrong>Voting electronically:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Eligible voters should have registered for this option by May 3. If you chose this voting method, you should have received an email from the INE with instructions on how to access the voting portal. \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">You have till 5 p.m. PST on June 2 to complete your electronic ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">\u003cstrong>Voting on the day of the election at your nearest consulate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> If you didn’t register for the other two options and still want to vote in this year’s presidential election, this is now your only available option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, go to the consulate that is nearest to you and let officials know that you are there to vote in the election (see the \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">locations of participating consulates and available voting times\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: You will need to have a valid INE voter card to access a voting booth. If you do not have an INE card, you will not be able to vote (American state IDs or other identification will not be accepted.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988472/what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_23121","news_34094"],"featImg":"news_11988500","label":"news"},"news_11988621":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988621","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988621","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","title":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire","publishDate":1717352932,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:15 p.m. Sunday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters aided by aircraft are battling \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-national-lab-c125ea03f228b8df65d4e66729477189\">a wind-driven wildfire\u003c/a> that continued not only burning but spreading early today in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy and east of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Dark plumes of smoke traveled high into the sky over the fire area comprised mostly of grassy hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cal_fire/status/1797354179771638106?s=46&t=HGSsaKCOQ1QM5hJKt_8U2A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, the blaze appeared to be growing, fueled by hot and dry conditions in California. Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 22 square miles, up from 19.5 square miles earlier this morning. The fire is now 50 percent contained. Chief Baraka Carter said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/1/corral-fire/updates/d1bf71d4-c7fc-4b20-a1dc-8ea0919ce0e9\">two fire workers were injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke seen in the distance behind a building structure.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Interstate 580 from South Bird Road in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The westbound side of Interstate 580 was back open at 11:00 a.m. while Caltrans said eastbound I-580 remained closed. Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1797315840121176184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. It was pretty dicey all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and woman wearing sun glasses sit next to each other on the back of a truck near a gas station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Curtiss and his wife Megan wait at a 76 gas station on Chrisman Road south of Tracy on June 2, 2024, for officials to allow them to see what is left of Curtiss’ parents’ home after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGYfcUlmHk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, says gusty winds were fueling the Corral Fire that began Saturday afternoon and continued early this morning near the city of Tracy, 60 miles east of San Francisco. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717374261,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":953},"headData":{"title":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire | KQED","description":"The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, says gusty winds were fueling the Corral Fire that began Saturday afternoon and continued early this morning near the city of Tracy, 60 miles east of San Francisco. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire","datePublished":"2024-06-02T11:28:52-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-02T17:24:21-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988621","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988621/firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:15 p.m. Sunday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters aided by aircraft are battling \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-national-lab-c125ea03f228b8df65d4e66729477189\">a wind-driven wildfire\u003c/a> that continued not only burning but spreading early today in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy and east of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Dark plumes of smoke traveled high into the sky over the fire area comprised mostly of grassy hills.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1797354179771638106"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, the blaze appeared to be growing, fueled by hot and dry conditions in California. Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 22 square miles, up from 19.5 square miles earlier this morning. The fire is now 50 percent contained. Chief Baraka Carter said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/1/corral-fire/updates/d1bf71d4-c7fc-4b20-a1dc-8ea0919ce0e9\">two fire workers were injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke seen in the distance behind a building structure.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Interstate 580 from South Bird Road in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The westbound side of Interstate 580 was back open at 11:00 a.m. while Caltrans said eastbound I-580 remained closed. Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1797315840121176184"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. It was pretty dicey all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and woman wearing sun glasses sit next to each other on the back of a truck near a gas station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Curtiss and his wife Megan wait at a 76 gas station on Chrisman Road south of Tracy on June 2, 2024, for officials to allow them to see what is left of Curtiss’ parents’ home after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988621/firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_21959","news_24504","news_27626","news_18512","news_21047"],"featImg":"news_11988649","label":"news"},"news_11988548":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988548","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988548","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-california-adopt-a-pet-day-hopes-to-ease-shelter-overcrowding","title":"First California Adopt-a-Pet Day Hopes to Ease Shelter Overcrowding","publishDate":1717250416,"format":"standard","headTitle":"First California Adopt-a-Pet Day Hopes to Ease Shelter Overcrowding | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With more than 20 years of experience in veterinary medicine, Dr. Jennifer Scarlett has seen a lot. The booming numbers of animals surrendered to shelters statewide shouldn’t faze her, shouldn’t surprise her, shouldn’t rock her professional veneer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one image shook her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boxes of puppies, abandoned in orchards and given up all over the place,” Scarlett, CEO of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals, told KQED. “There’s just so many puppies. Just boxes and boxes of German shepherds and huskies coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to ease those jam-packed shelters, the SF SPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the nonprofit California Animal Welfare Association are partnering to launch the first California Adopt-a-Pet Day on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adoption fees for dogs and cats at more than 150 California animal welfare organizations will be dropped, and \u003ca href=\"https://caadoptapetday.org/find-a-shelter\">a new web tool will help people find participating shelters\u003c/a>. The ASPCA and its partners will pick up the tab of an estimated $500,000 to shelters, which depend on adoption fees as part of their revenue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to remove those barriers, and we want to remind Californians that there are wonderful animals in the shelter,” said Matthew Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing would make me happier to spend more,” he said. “If we can save more lives, the ASPCA would be happy to reimburse those shelters those adoption fees.”\u003cbr>\nThe organizations have set a goal of 2,024 adoptions for the event, according to Jill Tucker, CEO of CalAnimals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a hunch we’re going to blow past that,” she said. “I’m very optimistic about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Shelters across California are overwhelmed.[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"pets\"]They’re receiving too many dogs – and, to a lesser extent, cats – due to a population boom driven by an acute national veterinarian shortage, which has lessened the availability of spay and neuter appointments. In California, 60% of animal welfare organizations have unfilled veterinary positions, \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ae46f84f8c3438d9c32126d54681936\">according to an SF SPCA survey last year of 111 organizations\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spay and neuter appointments were also deferred during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at thousands and thousands of animals entering the community that would not have had we not had to shut down,” Scarlett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a post-pandemic economy, coupled with rising housing instability, has prompted many Californians to give up their pets, Tucker said. Housing issues are the “number one reason” given for surrendering pets, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind every animal is a human, and that human story, as to why that animal landed in a shelter,” she said. “And that is the most heartbreaking thing; we want more than anything for people to be able to keep their pets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year-to-year data showing the number of animals in California shelters is difficult to compare for a number of reasons: Data collection is voluntary, and the rules around how many dogs and cats a shelter will accept can change each year. Some shelters began raising requirements for accepting animals as overcrowding rose after 2020, for instance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those caveats aside, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shelteranimalscount.org/stats\">Shelter Animals Count\u003c/a>, a national database, has some available comparisons nationally. About 690,000 animals were euthanized in the United States last year, 52% of which were dogs and 48% of which were cats. That’s a 15% increase since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In places like \u003ca href=\"https://tcanimalservices.org/animalservices/\">Tulare County\u003c/a> in the Central Valley, Scarlett said puppies are being surrendered more frequently amid a shortage of available veterinarians to spay and neuter animals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Tulare County Animal Services took in 5,585 dogs, and in 2024 that had dropped to 2,442 dogs under new “managed intake” rules, like requiring owners to have an appointment to surrender their pets and limiting feral dog intakes. Meanwhile, puppies are making up a larger share of those dogs. The agency accepted 1,126 puppies this year, which is projected to reach 2,700 by the end of the year, a 30% increase since 2019. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of dogs Tulare County Animal Services euthanized in 2019 was 1,332, and that rose to 1,483 last year. This year’s number is set to outpace 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the rise in dogs surrendered to shelters, and particularly puppies, is disheartening, Scarlett said the California Adopt-a-Pet Day could make a difference. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much in the world that we can’t control,” she said. “But we can affect this.” \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Organizers have a goal of 2,024 pet adoptions for California's first ever Adopt-a-Pet Day on June 1.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717202695,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":806},"headData":{"title":"First California Adopt-a-Pet Day Hopes to Ease Shelter Overcrowding | KQED","description":"Organizers have a goal of 2,024 pet adoptions for California's first ever Adopt-a-Pet Day on June 1.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"First California Adopt-a-Pet Day Hopes to Ease Shelter Overcrowding","datePublished":"2024-06-01T07:00:16-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T17:44:55-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988548/first-california-adopt-a-pet-day-hopes-to-ease-shelter-overcrowding","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With more than 20 years of experience in veterinary medicine, Dr. Jennifer Scarlett has seen a lot. The booming numbers of animals surrendered to shelters statewide shouldn’t faze her, shouldn’t surprise her, shouldn’t rock her professional veneer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one image shook her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boxes of puppies, abandoned in orchards and given up all over the place,” Scarlett, CEO of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals, told KQED. “There’s just so many puppies. Just boxes and boxes of German shepherds and huskies coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to ease those jam-packed shelters, the SF SPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the nonprofit California Animal Welfare Association are partnering to launch the first California Adopt-a-Pet Day on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adoption fees for dogs and cats at more than 150 California animal welfare organizations will be dropped, and \u003ca href=\"https://caadoptapetday.org/find-a-shelter\">a new web tool will help people find participating shelters\u003c/a>. The ASPCA and its partners will pick up the tab of an estimated $500,000 to shelters, which depend on adoption fees as part of their revenue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to remove those barriers, and we want to remind Californians that there are wonderful animals in the shelter,” said Matthew Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing would make me happier to spend more,” he said. “If we can save more lives, the ASPCA would be happy to reimburse those shelters those adoption fees.”\u003cbr>\nThe organizations have set a goal of 2,024 adoptions for the event, according to Jill Tucker, CEO of CalAnimals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a hunch we’re going to blow past that,” she said. “I’m very optimistic about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Shelters across California are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories ","tag":"pets"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They’re receiving too many dogs – and, to a lesser extent, cats – due to a population boom driven by an acute national veterinarian shortage, which has lessened the availability of spay and neuter appointments. In California, 60% of animal welfare organizations have unfilled veterinary positions, \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ae46f84f8c3438d9c32126d54681936\">according to an SF SPCA survey last year of 111 organizations\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spay and neuter appointments were also deferred during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at thousands and thousands of animals entering the community that would not have had we not had to shut down,” Scarlett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a post-pandemic economy, coupled with rising housing instability, has prompted many Californians to give up their pets, Tucker said. Housing issues are the “number one reason” given for surrendering pets, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind every animal is a human, and that human story, as to why that animal landed in a shelter,” she said. “And that is the most heartbreaking thing; we want more than anything for people to be able to keep their pets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year-to-year data showing the number of animals in California shelters is difficult to compare for a number of reasons: Data collection is voluntary, and the rules around how many dogs and cats a shelter will accept can change each year. Some shelters began raising requirements for accepting animals as overcrowding rose after 2020, for instance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those caveats aside, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shelteranimalscount.org/stats\">Shelter Animals Count\u003c/a>, a national database, has some available comparisons nationally. About 690,000 animals were euthanized in the United States last year, 52% of which were dogs and 48% of which were cats. That’s a 15% increase since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In places like \u003ca href=\"https://tcanimalservices.org/animalservices/\">Tulare County\u003c/a> in the Central Valley, Scarlett said puppies are being surrendered more frequently amid a shortage of available veterinarians to spay and neuter animals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Tulare County Animal Services took in 5,585 dogs, and in 2024 that had dropped to 2,442 dogs under new “managed intake” rules, like requiring owners to have an appointment to surrender their pets and limiting feral dog intakes. Meanwhile, puppies are making up a larger share of those dogs. The agency accepted 1,126 puppies this year, which is projected to reach 2,700 by the end of the year, a 30% increase since 2019. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of dogs Tulare County Animal Services euthanized in 2019 was 1,332, and that rose to 1,483 last year. This year’s number is set to outpace 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the rise in dogs surrendered to shelters, and particularly puppies, is disheartening, Scarlett said the California Adopt-a-Pet Day could make a difference. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much in the world that we can’t control,” she said. “But we can affect this.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988548/first-california-adopt-a-pet-day-hopes-to-ease-shelter-overcrowding","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18132","news_6244"],"featImg":"news_11988482","label":"news"},"news_11988388":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988388","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988388","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-spent-nearly-1-billion-to-boost-arts-education-are-schools-misspending-it","title":"California Spent Nearly $1 Billion to Boost Arts Education. Are Schools Misspending It?","publishDate":1717257614,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Spent Nearly $1 Billion to Boost Arts Education. Are Schools Misspending It? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-28-arts-education/\">Proposition 28\u003c/a>, California’s K–12 schools are awash in nearly $1 billion in new arts funding. However, a coalition of nearly 100 arts groups said that some school districts might be misspending the money, deepening longstanding inequities in arts education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intent of Prop. 28 is to have more arts in schools,” said Abe Flores, deputy director of policy and programs at Create CA, which advocates for arts education in California. “We’re concerned that’s not happening everywhere. If people found out one school was offering math, for example, and another school wasn’t, they’d be outraged. That’s what’s happening with the arts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28, which voters passed overwhelmingly in 2022, gives schools an additional 1% of their budgets annually for visual arts, theater, dance, music or media arts. The windfall came after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/arts-education-is-woefully-underfunded-in-california-schools/\">decades of underfunding\u003c/a> that left many students with little or no arts education at all, except where parent donations covered the costs. At the time the measure passed, barely \u003ca href=\"http://blog.csba.org/prop-28-art-ed-month/\">1 in 5 schools had a full-time art or music teacher\u003c/a>, with low-income schools more likely to be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools are supposed to spend 80% of the money on staff and 20% on materials and report to the California Department of Education annually on how they’re spending the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of budget uncertainties — partly due to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/03/funding-for-schools/\">the end of federal pandemic relief funds\u003c/a> — some school districts are considering accounting maneuvers that undermine the intent of the initiative, Flores said. Proposition 28 requires schools to expand arts offerings, but some districts are planning to use their funds to pay for existing positions and programs and reallocate the additional money elsewhere, which the coalition said violates the initiative’s “clear and plain language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 28 states that schools must expand their arts programs,” Flores said. “It does not say they can backfill. It’s pretty clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/letter-of-coalition-re-proposition-28-the-arts-and-music-in-schools-implementation-concerns/\">is asking the state\u003c/a> to require school districts to prove they’ve hired more arts teachers and draw up expenditure plans for the future. They also want more community input and transparency because, currently, the state doesn’t require schools to post their Proposition 28 expenditure plans or include families or the community in planning efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Sanders, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, said an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28auditresource.asp\">independent auditor\u003c/a> will review schools’ Proposition 28 spending, and if the auditor finds that schools are misusing their money, they risk losing state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of allegations of misuse of Prop. 28 funds, and we take any misuse of state funds very seriously,” Sanders said. “We’re not here to supplant the independent auditor process, but we do want to make sure we’re sharing as many resources as possible so districts can be in compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is offering webinars, convening an advisory council and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfunding.asp\">posting information online\u003c/a> to help districts navigate the new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988420\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36.jpg\" alt=\"Students are standing with arms raised as part of a hip hop class activity.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindergarten students dance in a hip-hop class at Radcliff Elementary School in Watsonville on May 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-if-a-school-already-has-a-robust-arts-education-program\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What if a school already has a robust arts education program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modoc Joint Unified, in far northeastern California, is among the districts struggling with the Proposition 28 spending requirements. In fact, the district hasn’t spent a dime of its $134,000 allotment, in part because it already has a robust arts program, Superintendent Tom O’Malley said. The 800-student district has a full-time music teacher in the elementary school and a dozen arts classes in the high school, including jazz and concert band, choir, ceramics, printmaking and Advanced Placement art. A local community theater provides drama instruction. Half the high school students are enrolled in some kind of arts class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it needed an arts teacher, hiring one would be nearly impossible, O’Malley said. The district — located in the high plains 146 miles from the nearest city — already struggles to fill its teacher vacancies. The elementary school had seven open teacher positions (of 24 total) at the beginning of the school year, and this year couldn’t open its transitional kindergarten class because it had no teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the school buildings, some of which are nearly a century old, are in dire need of repairs and upgrades.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"proposition-28\"]“It’s wonderful that voters want to help, and I appreciate the funding, but it would be great if we could spend it on things we actually need,” O’Malley said. “Right now, the money is just sitting there, which is very frustrating when we have all these other needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district applied for a waiver, allowing flexibility in spending the money. Sanders said the state has received several waiver requests and staff are reviewing them now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For districts like Modoc, Flores suggested the staff look at gaps in the arts offerings — dance or media arts, for example — and use the Proposition 28 funding to hire teachers or partner with local arts groups in those disciplines. He also suggested they check if specific groups of students, such as those who are English learners, are underenrolled in arts classes and expand programs tailored to their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A point of confusion among parents is why some schools within a district may get more Proposition 28 funding than others. Proposition 28 funds are allocated based on enrollment and students’ economic needs, so schools with more low-income students receive more money. Los Angeles Unified, for example, distributed $77 million in Proposition 28 arts funding across more than 1,000 schools, with big variations at school sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the diversity of our schools and their respective school-site budgets, Prop. 28 funding may fluctuate at each school from one year to the next,” according to a Los Angeles Unified fact sheet on Proposition 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools in Santa Cruz County have some of the state’s most comprehensive arts programs and are using their Proposition 28 funds to expand arts classes even further. Arts Council Santa Cruz County plays a key role: hiring local artists to teach, helping artists get their teaching credentials, forging partnerships between schools and arts groups and helping districts map out their long-term arts programs.[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"education\"]Arts education can improve students’ academic achievement, attendance and college-going rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel06.asp#:~:text=%E2%80%9CArts%20education%20boosts%20school%20attendance,emotional%20development%20for%20our%20students.%E2%80%9D\">research shows\u003c/a>, and boost \u003ca href=\"https://wallacefoundation.org/insights/what-do-i-need-know-about-arts-education\">students’ empathy for others\u003c/a>. But the key is creating an arts program that’s part of a broader plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/vp/cf/index.asp\">aligns with the state standards\u003c/a>, offers plenty of options and reflects a range of cultures, said Sarah Brothers, the council’s education director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, that includes ukulele classes at the alternative high schools, \u003cem>repujado\u003c/em> (embossed tin) and \u003cem>papel picado\u003c/em> (paper flags) projects for Day of the Dead altars, and environmental murals at middle schools, among other undertakings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also tries to promote careers in the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s often a gap between arts education and kids seeing the arts as a viable career path,” Brothers said. “But California is the largest creative economy in the world. There are lots and lots of great jobs in the arts. You can make money. You can have a successful career. We work hard to make sure students know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-arts-education-funding-at-twerk\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arts education funding at twerk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Watsonville, a hip-hop dance party erupts every day in the multipurpose room of Radcliff Elementary. Under the instruction of Luis Sanchez, students do cartwheels and headstands, stomp and hop, twirl and spin, kick and jump — and squeal with laughter — to upbeat dance tracks. Some of it is choreographed, some of it is freeform, all of it is fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funded by Proposition 28 money, Sanchez’s class is one of several hip-hop classes in Pajaro Valley Unified, a largely Latino and low-income district of 15,000 students at the agricultural, southern end of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been amazing,” kindergarten teacher Leigh Klein said. “They’re doing better academically because they can focus more. But they’re also doing better emotionally — they’re learning to express themselves, take risks. And they can get their wiggles out. … When they see ‘hip-hop’ on the schedule, they all say, ‘Yay!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a gentle demeanor and a perpetual smile, Sanchez teaches students dance moves like tutting, popping and breaking, as well as the stories behind the moves. Tutting, for example, refers to the angular arm movements seen in images of King Tut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent class for kindergartners, students followed his every move — and then added their own freestyle interpretations. Some jumped in a circle and did backbends as their classmates clapped to the music. Others practiced their footwork. Two girls held hands and spun. Occasionally, Sanchez had them line up to learn new moves. When Sanchez played “Cha Cha Slide,” the students erupted with glee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a backward cap on stands in front of a whiteboard. Musical scales are written on the board. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Sanchez teaches a hip-hop dance class for second-grade students at Radcliff Elementary School in Watsonville on May 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program has been a boon for Sanchez, as well. A Watsonville native, Sanchez became fascinated with dancing as a child in the 1990s while watching his uncle and his friends break-dance on sheets of cardboard in the parking lot of their apartment complex. Later, he took up street dancing himself, finding a tight-knit community in Watsonville, Gilroy and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a student at Cabrillo Community College in Aptos, Sanchez helped his dance teacher lead classes and then started teaching dancing at local youth centers and after-school programs. He’d always dreamed of making a living as a dancer, but always had to work side jobs at Target or FedEx to make ends meet. Getting a teaching credential seemed out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with the passage of Proposition 28, the full-time dance instructor position came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dance has meant so much to me; it’s opened so many doors, showed me different cultures, showed me there’s a big world out there,” Sanchez said. “Now I get to share this with the kids. I never thought I’d be able to make a living doing what I love, but here I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles cm-manual-eoa-recirc wpnbha show-image image-alignleft ts-3 is-1 is-landscape cm-manual-eoa-recirc has-text-align-left\">\n\u003cdiv data-posts=\"\" data-current-post-id=\"427135\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Voters passed Proposition 28 to expand arts education in California schools. Some are planning to pay for existing positions, which backers of the initiative say violates its intent.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717265551,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1794},"headData":{"title":"California Spent Nearly $1 Billion to Boost Arts Education. Are Schools Misspending It? | KQED","description":"Voters passed Proposition 28 to expand arts education in California schools. Some are planning to pay for existing positions, which backers of the initiative say violates its intent.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Spent Nearly $1 Billion to Boost Arts Education. Are Schools Misspending It?","datePublished":"2024-06-01T09:00:14-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-01T11:12:31-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"CalMatters","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/carolyn-jones/\">Carolyn Jones\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988388","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988388/california-spent-nearly-1-billion-to-boost-arts-education-are-schools-misspending-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-28-arts-education/\">Proposition 28\u003c/a>, California’s K–12 schools are awash in nearly $1 billion in new arts funding. However, a coalition of nearly 100 arts groups said that some school districts might be misspending the money, deepening longstanding inequities in arts education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intent of Prop. 28 is to have more arts in schools,” said Abe Flores, deputy director of policy and programs at Create CA, which advocates for arts education in California. “We’re concerned that’s not happening everywhere. If people found out one school was offering math, for example, and another school wasn’t, they’d be outraged. That’s what’s happening with the arts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28, which voters passed overwhelmingly in 2022, gives schools an additional 1% of their budgets annually for visual arts, theater, dance, music or media arts. The windfall came after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/arts-education-is-woefully-underfunded-in-california-schools/\">decades of underfunding\u003c/a> that left many students with little or no arts education at all, except where parent donations covered the costs. At the time the measure passed, barely \u003ca href=\"http://blog.csba.org/prop-28-art-ed-month/\">1 in 5 schools had a full-time art or music teacher\u003c/a>, with low-income schools more likely to be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools are supposed to spend 80% of the money on staff and 20% on materials and report to the California Department of Education annually on how they’re spending the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of budget uncertainties — partly due to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/03/funding-for-schools/\">the end of federal pandemic relief funds\u003c/a> — some school districts are considering accounting maneuvers that undermine the intent of the initiative, Flores said. Proposition 28 requires schools to expand arts offerings, but some districts are planning to use their funds to pay for existing positions and programs and reallocate the additional money elsewhere, which the coalition said violates the initiative’s “clear and plain language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 28 states that schools must expand their arts programs,” Flores said. “It does not say they can backfill. It’s pretty clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/letter-of-coalition-re-proposition-28-the-arts-and-music-in-schools-implementation-concerns/\">is asking the state\u003c/a> to require school districts to prove they’ve hired more arts teachers and draw up expenditure plans for the future. They also want more community input and transparency because, currently, the state doesn’t require schools to post their Proposition 28 expenditure plans or include families or the community in planning efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Sanders, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, said an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28auditresource.asp\">independent auditor\u003c/a> will review schools’ Proposition 28 spending, and if the auditor finds that schools are misusing their money, they risk losing state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of allegations of misuse of Prop. 28 funds, and we take any misuse of state funds very seriously,” Sanders said. “We’re not here to supplant the independent auditor process, but we do want to make sure we’re sharing as many resources as possible so districts can be in compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is offering webinars, convening an advisory council and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfunding.asp\">posting information online\u003c/a> to help districts navigate the new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988420\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36.jpg\" alt=\"Students are standing with arms raised as part of a hip hop class activity.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-36-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindergarten students dance in a hip-hop class at Radcliff Elementary School in Watsonville on May 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-if-a-school-already-has-a-robust-arts-education-program\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What if a school already has a robust arts education program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modoc Joint Unified, in far northeastern California, is among the districts struggling with the Proposition 28 spending requirements. In fact, the district hasn’t spent a dime of its $134,000 allotment, in part because it already has a robust arts program, Superintendent Tom O’Malley said. The 800-student district has a full-time music teacher in the elementary school and a dozen arts classes in the high school, including jazz and concert band, choir, ceramics, printmaking and Advanced Placement art. A local community theater provides drama instruction. Half the high school students are enrolled in some kind of arts class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it needed an arts teacher, hiring one would be nearly impossible, O’Malley said. The district — located in the high plains 146 miles from the nearest city — already struggles to fill its teacher vacancies. The elementary school had seven open teacher positions (of 24 total) at the beginning of the school year, and this year couldn’t open its transitional kindergarten class because it had no teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the school buildings, some of which are nearly a century old, are in dire need of repairs and upgrades.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"proposition-28"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s wonderful that voters want to help, and I appreciate the funding, but it would be great if we could spend it on things we actually need,” O’Malley said. “Right now, the money is just sitting there, which is very frustrating when we have all these other needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district applied for a waiver, allowing flexibility in spending the money. Sanders said the state has received several waiver requests and staff are reviewing them now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For districts like Modoc, Flores suggested the staff look at gaps in the arts offerings — dance or media arts, for example — and use the Proposition 28 funding to hire teachers or partner with local arts groups in those disciplines. He also suggested they check if specific groups of students, such as those who are English learners, are underenrolled in arts classes and expand programs tailored to their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A point of confusion among parents is why some schools within a district may get more Proposition 28 funding than others. Proposition 28 funds are allocated based on enrollment and students’ economic needs, so schools with more low-income students receive more money. Los Angeles Unified, for example, distributed $77 million in Proposition 28 arts funding across more than 1,000 schools, with big variations at school sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the diversity of our schools and their respective school-site budgets, Prop. 28 funding may fluctuate at each school from one year to the next,” according to a Los Angeles Unified fact sheet on Proposition 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools in Santa Cruz County have some of the state’s most comprehensive arts programs and are using their Proposition 28 funds to expand arts classes even further. Arts Council Santa Cruz County plays a key role: hiring local artists to teach, helping artists get their teaching credentials, forging partnerships between schools and arts groups and helping districts map out their long-term arts programs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Education Stories ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Arts education can improve students’ academic achievement, attendance and college-going rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel06.asp#:~:text=%E2%80%9CArts%20education%20boosts%20school%20attendance,emotional%20development%20for%20our%20students.%E2%80%9D\">research shows\u003c/a>, and boost \u003ca href=\"https://wallacefoundation.org/insights/what-do-i-need-know-about-arts-education\">students’ empathy for others\u003c/a>. But the key is creating an arts program that’s part of a broader plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/vp/cf/index.asp\">aligns with the state standards\u003c/a>, offers plenty of options and reflects a range of cultures, said Sarah Brothers, the council’s education director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, that includes ukulele classes at the alternative high schools, \u003cem>repujado\u003c/em> (embossed tin) and \u003cem>papel picado\u003c/em> (paper flags) projects for Day of the Dead altars, and environmental murals at middle schools, among other undertakings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also tries to promote careers in the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s often a gap between arts education and kids seeing the arts as a viable career path,” Brothers said. “But California is the largest creative economy in the world. There are lots and lots of great jobs in the arts. You can make money. You can have a successful career. We work hard to make sure students know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-arts-education-funding-at-twerk\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arts education funding at twerk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Watsonville, a hip-hop dance party erupts every day in the multipurpose room of Radcliff Elementary. Under the instruction of Luis Sanchez, students do cartwheels and headstands, stomp and hop, twirl and spin, kick and jump — and squeal with laughter — to upbeat dance tracks. Some of it is choreographed, some of it is freeform, all of it is fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funded by Proposition 28 money, Sanchez’s class is one of several hip-hop classes in Pajaro Valley Unified, a largely Latino and low-income district of 15,000 students at the agricultural, southern end of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been amazing,” kindergarten teacher Leigh Klein said. “They’re doing better academically because they can focus more. But they’re also doing better emotionally — they’re learning to express themselves, take risks. And they can get their wiggles out. … When they see ‘hip-hop’ on the schedule, they all say, ‘Yay!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a gentle demeanor and a perpetual smile, Sanchez teaches students dance moves like tutting, popping and breaking, as well as the stories behind the moves. Tutting, for example, refers to the angular arm movements seen in images of King Tut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent class for kindergartners, students followed his every move — and then added their own freestyle interpretations. Some jumped in a circle and did backbends as their classmates clapped to the music. Others practiced their footwork. Two girls held hands and spun. Occasionally, Sanchez had them line up to learn new moves. When Sanchez played “Cha Cha Slide,” the students erupted with glee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a backward cap on stands in front of a whiteboard. Musical scales are written on the board. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/052124_Hip-Hop-Class_LA_CM-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Sanchez teaches a hip-hop dance class for second-grade students at Radcliff Elementary School in Watsonville on May 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program has been a boon for Sanchez, as well. A Watsonville native, Sanchez became fascinated with dancing as a child in the 1990s while watching his uncle and his friends break-dance on sheets of cardboard in the parking lot of their apartment complex. Later, he took up street dancing himself, finding a tight-knit community in Watsonville, Gilroy and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a student at Cabrillo Community College in Aptos, Sanchez helped his dance teacher lead classes and then started teaching dancing at local youth centers and after-school programs. He’d always dreamed of making a living as a dancer, but always had to work side jobs at Target or FedEx to make ends meet. Getting a teaching credential seemed out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with the passage of Proposition 28, the full-time dance instructor position came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dance has meant so much to me; it’s opened so many doors, showed me different cultures, showed me there’s a big world out there,” Sanchez said. “Now I get to share this with the kids. I never thought I’d be able to make a living doing what I love, but here I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles cm-manual-eoa-recirc wpnbha show-image image-alignleft ts-3 is-1 is-landscape cm-manual-eoa-recirc has-text-align-left\">\n\u003cdiv data-posts=\"\" data-current-post-id=\"427135\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988388/california-spent-nearly-1-billion-to-boost-arts-education-are-schools-misspending-it","authors":["byline_news_11988388"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32101","news_20013","news_32100"],"featImg":"news_11988419","label":"source_news_11988388"},"news_11834901":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11834901","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11834901","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan","title":"Fire Evacuation: What Actually Happens? And How Can You Plan?","publishDate":1717337313,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Fire Evacuation: What Actually Happens? And How Can You Plan? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated June 2, 2023 and originally published on Aug. 25, 2020.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884668/que-ocurre-realmente-en-una-evacuacion-de-incendios-y-como-se-puede-preparar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to evacuate your home due to threat of wildfire is a scary prospect — especially if you’ve never had to do it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for fire information in your county?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">\u003cstrong>County emergency alerts and evacuation updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fires can move erratically, says Cal Fire spokesperson Heather Williams, and they can move into communities that would never have suspected themselves to be under threat of wildfires or evacuation. That’s why it’s important to know about the best procedures for safely leaving your home, and to be prepared ahead of time for the worst — even if the possibility seems unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know our audiences have questions about how evacuation works, from when you should leave to what you should bring. Here are the answers to some common questions about evacuations in a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#2\">How will I know if I have to evacuate? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#3\">What do I bring with me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#5\">What should I wear?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Where do I go once I’ve evacuated?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#9\">What if this all happens at night?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#10\">What if I or someone in my family has a medical or mobility issue?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#12\">What if I don’t have a car?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>What’s the difference between an evacuation warning and an evacuation order?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An evacuation warning comes before an evacuation order, and is a warning that you might need to evacuate soon. The evacuation order is mandatory, i.e., “go time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your home is under an evacuation warning, that’s the time to make sure you and your family know your emergency plan, and to prepare your emergency bag. If you or anyone in your family has medical or mobility issues, consider evacuating when you get the warning, and not waiting until a possible evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings should always be taken seriously, says Heather Williams of Cal Fire — because a mandatory evacuation order could follow “at any minute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A warning doesn’t mean you have to stick around and wait for the order,” said Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter. “You can go during a warning. You can go if you’re sucking smoke and you have respiratory or other underlying issues, and you’re in the smoke for days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allow for firefighters to do what they need to do without having to rescue you,” stressed Porter. “We need people to leave and we need people to leave early.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>How will I know? Will there be sirens?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7q0hGr7iEU\">“hi-lo” siren\u003c/a> will be used to alert residents if it is time to leave, in the event of an evacuation order. If the area is remote, fire engines may also be sent to alert residents physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> wait for someone to come to your door and order you to leave. The information on whether or not you have to evacuate your home will come from your county, and it’s really important to proactively stay up to date on the latest alerts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Alameda County evacuation updates at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/\">Cal Fire’s incident site\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/\">Alameda County emergency website \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amador County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire Amador/El Dorado unit on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AmadorSheriff/\">Amador County sheriff’s Facebook page\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amadorsheriff.org/administration-division/codered\">Amador County emergency alerts via CodeRED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amadorsheriff.org/administration-division/codered\">Sign up for Amador County emergency alerts via CodeRED.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com/\">Contra Costa Community Warning System\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Dorado County evacuation information \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire Amador/El Dorado unit on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c995bf3816964e948d7d831d3ba938ff\">El Dorado County evacuations map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eldoradosheriff\">El Dorado sheriff’s Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/eldoradosheriff\">El Dorado sheriff’s Facebook page\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/el-dorado/\">Sign up for El Dorado County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ready.edso.org/\">Sign up for El Dorado County emergency alerts via CodeRED.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">Napa County evacuation map \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">Napa County Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the most up-to-date information, Napa County officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Sign up for Napa County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://app.perimeterplatform.com/incidents/point/22868\">San Joaquin County evacuation map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sjready.org/\">SJReady (San Joaquin County of Emergency Services)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/397890065268824/login\">SJReady Alerts\u003c/a> for emergency events and public safety notices\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Documents/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The hotline for Santa Clara residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Sign up for Santa Clara County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Solano County sheriff’s Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For Solano County evacuation questions, call (707) 784-1634 or (707) 784-1635.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/\">Sonoma County emergency information\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/get-ready/evacuation-map/\">Sonoma County evacuation map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sign up for Sonoma County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Heather Williams of Cal Fire also recommends signing up for the state’s emergency alert system at \u003ca href=\"http://calalerts.org/\">calalerts.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>What do I bring with me if I’m evacuated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11833686,news_11834103\" label=\"Emergency Bag Checklist\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a “go bag” all ready to evacuate — and keeping it somewhere you can access it instantly — is incredibly important right now. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">checklist of items to have in your emergency bag\u003c/a> (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834103/que-debo-traer-en-mi-mochila-de-emergencia-para-los-incendios-durante-covid-19\">leer en español\u003c/a>). Don’t wait until you’re under an evacuation warning or order to make this kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID safety measure you may also consider adding to your emergency bag:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Face masks or coverings (at least two per person)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol, soap and disinfectant wipes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember: You may have to walk to safety, so pack your emergency supplies in something that’s durable and easy to carry, such as a backpack or duffle bag. For heavier items, such as food and water, using a tub or chest on wheels may make it easier to transport — but make sure it’s still light enough to lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>How should I prepare to get moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Make sure your family’s plan takes into account the best route(s) for leaving your location. If one route were blocked, would you still be able to evacuate to safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re anticipating evacuation, Cal Fire recommends that you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Put your emergency bag and supplies in your car, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once your vehicle is loaded, back it into the driveway with all doors and windows closed but carry your car keys \u003cem>with\u003c/em> you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Patrol your property and keep an eye on the fire situation online. Don’t wait for a mandatory evacuation order if you feel you’re in danger.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If it’s safe to do so, check on your neighbors and ensure they are planning to evacuate, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Make sure your pets are nearby and ready to leave.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you have more time to prepare your home for evacuation, Cal Fire has \u003ca href=\"#14\">more advice on how to give your property the best chance of surviving a wildfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of being trapped in an evacuation emergency, you should call 911 and turn on lights to help rescuers find you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing you shouldn’t do when evacuating? Don’t leave the water on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a home with hoses or sprinklers outside, you might be tempted to leave them running in the hopes that doing so may provide additional protection. But don’t do it. Leaving your water on decreases the volume of water flow available to firefighters — and that could actually keep them from saving your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Caldor Fire in September 2021, Tahoe fire officials \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433129219861594113/photo/1\">implored residents not to leave water running when they evacuate\u003c/a>, saying water providers noticed significant drawdowns in capacity in areas that should have been completely evacuated of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is [leaving the water on] not helpful in protecting homes from wildfire, but it can be detrimental for firefighters who rely on a water supply with adequate water flow to fight fire in extremely dangerous conditions,” said a press release from the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team. “This misuse of water can leave water supplies dangerously low when firefighters need fast access to water from fire hydrants to protect homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>What should I wear to evacuate?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area experiences high temperatures, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/\">Cal Fire’s evacuation guide\u003c/a> recommends that you cover up to protect against heat and flying embers, and says 100% cotton is preferable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide advises you to wear long pants, a long sleeve shirt, heavy shoes/boots, a cap, a dry bandana for a face cover and goggles or glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>Where do I go once I’ve evacuated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you’re making an evacuation plan, first check to see whether you can stay in a hotel or with friends and family, which may be the safest options during the pandemic. \u003ca href=\"#7\">Here’s how to find an evacuation center\u003c/a> if you can’t make other arrangements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have relatives or friends outside the evacuation area whom you think might have space to accommodate you, ask them ahead of time so they’re prepared for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic Cal Fire’s evacuation guide has advised that you ask anyone you’re contemplating staying with if they have symptoms of COVID-19 or have people in their home at higher risk for serious illness. If the answer to one or both of those questions is “yes,” you may consider making other arrangements for your health and theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay in a hotel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check with hotels, motels or campgrounds outside your area to see whether they can accept you. Your county might also have a plan to free up available rooms. For example, in August 2020 Santa Cruz County officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-oes-asks-tourists-and-visitors-to-leave-town-immediately/33658712\"> requested that all visitors and tourists depart\u003c/a> to leave space for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>How do I find an evacuation center?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If staying with a friend or in a hotel isn’t an option, you can go to an evacuation center. It’s wise to research which center you’d be going to \u003cem>ahead\u003c/em> of time — because you don’t want to be researching your destination as you scramble to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of nearby evacuation centers will be provided by your county, \u003ca href=\"#2\">so find your nearest evacuation center\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that your evacuation center may be different from those in previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Red Cross also provides evacuation shelters across California. Check to see whether there’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/get-help/disaster-relief-and-recovery-services/find-an-open-shelter.html\">Red Cross evacuation shelter near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11835192 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man with blue bandana over lower half of face rests on cot in hangar-like building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke Piland, from Boulder Creek, takes a break from volunteering to set up cots at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his father left their home in Boulder Creek due to the CZU Lightning Complex fires. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"9\">\u003c/a>What if this all happens at night?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the event of an evacuation order, a “hi-lo” siren that should be loud enough to wake you will be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned your home is under threat, make sure you update yourself on the situation before going to bed. If you have alerts set up on your phone, take your phone off any nighttime mode settings and make sure your alert notification sounds have the volume turned all the way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of evacuation in the middle of the night is also why it’s important to have your plans made and your emergency bag ready ahead of time — and to keep your supplies somewhere that you can grab them quickly and easily, even if you’ve just woken up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"10\">\u003c/a>What if I or someone in my family has a medical or mobility issue?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ensure that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">your emergency bag\u003c/a> has any medicines, supplies or home-use medical devices you and your family might need — with a medications list that includes prescriptions and other important medical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned about medical supplies and facilities at an evacuation center, Heather Williams of Cal Fire recommends contacting your county and/or the Red Cross ahead of time, to find out about their plan for accommodating medical needs in evacuation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835193\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11835193 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man sits on a cot petting a dog, beside a standing woman with purple hair and a red tent on a grassy field\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill and Sharon Fisk with their dog at a campsite on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Santa Cruz Country Fairgrounds evacuation center. They evacuated from Ben Lomond, in the Santa Cruz mountains, due to the CZU Lightning Complex fires. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"11\">\u003c/a>What about my pets?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have pets, consider their needs in your emergency bag preparations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">Read our checklist for pets\u003c/a>, which includes enough food and water to last your pet two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure your pets have collars with identification and rabies and license tags. Check to make sure your contact information is up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on transporting pets, larger animals and livestock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">check Cal Fire’s guide to animal evacuation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"12\">\u003c/a>What if I don’t have a car?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s important that your emergency bag is light enough to transport without a car, and be carried (or pulled, in a tub or a chest on wheels) easily. Even if you have a vehicle, you might find yourself in an evacuation situation that demands you leave it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"wildfires\" label=\"Latest news\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re worried about how you’ll leave your home area without a car, Cal Fire’s Heather Williams recommends that you work with your neighbors — or nearby friends and family, if you have them — to coordinate. If you’re relying on someone else’s car to evacuate, she recommends you leave your home “sooner rather than later” because your ride might not be able to physically get to you if you leave it too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"13\">\u003c/a>What if I or a family member doesn’t have a smartphone?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Counties increasingly rely on the WEA system — wireless emergency alerts — that by and large are delivered to cellphones through the IPAWS system, the federal integrated public alert and warning system. Those alerts also go to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"14\">\u003c/a>What should I do for my house before I leave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re anticipating an evacuation and have time to prepare your house, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/pre-evacuation-preparation-steps/\">Cal Fire has a guide to giving your home the best chance of surviving a wildfire\u003c/a>. Their checklist includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Shut off gas at the meter; turn off pilot lights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shut off the air conditioning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shut all windows and doors, leaving them \u003cem>unlocked.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Remove flammable window shades, curtains and close metal shutters, and remove lightweight curtains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Move flammable furniture to the center of the room, away from windows and doors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leave your lights on so firefighters can see your house under smoky conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1965575/and-now-fire-season-heres-how-to-prepare\">more information about keeping your home prepared for wildfires all year round\u003c/a> — including how to create defensible space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"6208\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/6208.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"How will you know when to evacuate your home? What should you bring? Here are the facts about what to do if you need to evacuate in a wildfire situation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717340039,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":65,"wordCount":2619},"headData":{"title":"Fire Evacuation: What Actually Happens? And How Can You Plan? | KQED","description":"How will you know when to evacuate your home? What should you bring? Here are the facts about what to do if you need to evacuate in a wildfire situation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"How will you know when to evacuate your home? What should you bring? Here are the facts about what to do if you need to evacuate in a wildfire situation.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fire Evacuation: What Actually Happens? And How Can You Plan?","datePublished":"2024-06-02T07:08:33-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-02T07:53:59-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated June 2, 2023 and originally published on Aug. 25, 2020.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884668/que-ocurre-realmente-en-una-evacuacion-de-incendios-y-como-se-puede-preparar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to evacuate your home due to threat of wildfire is a scary prospect — especially if you’ve never had to do it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for fire information in your county?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">\u003cstrong>County emergency alerts and evacuation updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fires can move erratically, says Cal Fire spokesperson Heather Williams, and they can move into communities that would never have suspected themselves to be under threat of wildfires or evacuation. That’s why it’s important to know about the best procedures for safely leaving your home, and to be prepared ahead of time for the worst — even if the possibility seems unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know our audiences have questions about how evacuation works, from when you should leave to what you should bring. Here are the answers to some common questions about evacuations in a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#2\">How will I know if I have to evacuate? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#3\">What do I bring with me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#5\">What should I wear?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#6\">Where do I go once I’ve evacuated?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#9\">What if this all happens at night?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#10\">What if I or someone in my family has a medical or mobility issue?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#12\">What if I don’t have a car?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>What’s the difference between an evacuation warning and an evacuation order?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An evacuation warning comes before an evacuation order, and is a warning that you might need to evacuate soon. The evacuation order is mandatory, i.e., “go time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your home is under an evacuation warning, that’s the time to make sure you and your family know your emergency plan, and to prepare your emergency bag. If you or anyone in your family has medical or mobility issues, consider evacuating when you get the warning, and not waiting until a possible evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings should always be taken seriously, says Heather Williams of Cal Fire — because a mandatory evacuation order could follow “at any minute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A warning doesn’t mean you have to stick around and wait for the order,” said Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter. “You can go during a warning. You can go if you’re sucking smoke and you have respiratory or other underlying issues, and you’re in the smoke for days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allow for firefighters to do what they need to do without having to rescue you,” stressed Porter. “We need people to leave and we need people to leave early.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"2\">\u003c/a>How will I know? Will there be sirens?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7q0hGr7iEU\">“hi-lo” siren\u003c/a> will be used to alert residents if it is time to leave, in the event of an evacuation order. If the area is remote, fire engines may also be sent to alert residents physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> wait for someone to come to your door and order you to leave. The information on whether or not you have to evacuate your home will come from your county, and it’s really important to proactively stay up to date on the latest alerts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Alameda County evacuation updates at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/\">Cal Fire’s incident site\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/\">Alameda County emergency website \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amador County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire Amador/El Dorado unit on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AmadorSheriff/\">Amador County sheriff’s Facebook page\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amadorsheriff.org/administration-division/codered\">Amador County emergency alerts via CodeRED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amadorsheriff.org/administration-division/codered\">Sign up for Amador County emergency alerts via CodeRED.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com/\">Contra Costa Community Warning System\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Dorado County evacuation information \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire Amador/El Dorado unit on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c995bf3816964e948d7d831d3ba938ff\">El Dorado County evacuations map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eldoradosheriff\">El Dorado sheriff’s Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/eldoradosheriff\">El Dorado sheriff’s Facebook page\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/el-dorado/\">Sign up for El Dorado County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ready.edso.org/\">Sign up for El Dorado County emergency alerts via CodeRED.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">Napa County evacuation map \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">Napa County Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the most up-to-date information, Napa County officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Sign up for Napa County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://app.perimeterplatform.com/incidents/point/22868\">San Joaquin County evacuation map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sjready.org/\">SJReady (San Joaquin County of Emergency Services)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/397890065268824/login\">SJReady Alerts\u003c/a> for emergency events and public safety notices\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Documents/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The hotline for Santa Clara residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Sign up for Santa Clara County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Solano County sheriff’s Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For Solano County evacuation questions, call (707) 784-1634 or (707) 784-1635.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County evacuation information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/\">Sonoma County emergency information\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/get-ready/evacuation-map/\">Sonoma County evacuation map\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sign up for Sonoma County Nixle alerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Heather Williams of Cal Fire also recommends signing up for the state’s emergency alert system at \u003ca href=\"http://calalerts.org/\">calalerts.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>What do I bring with me if I’m evacuated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11833686,news_11834103","label":"Emergency Bag Checklist ","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a “go bag” all ready to evacuate — and keeping it somewhere you can access it instantly — is incredibly important right now. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">checklist of items to have in your emergency bag\u003c/a> (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834103/que-debo-traer-en-mi-mochila-de-emergencia-para-los-incendios-durante-covid-19\">leer en español\u003c/a>). Don’t wait until you’re under an evacuation warning or order to make this kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID safety measure you may also consider adding to your emergency bag:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Face masks or coverings (at least two per person)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol, soap and disinfectant wipes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember: You may have to walk to safety, so pack your emergency supplies in something that’s durable and easy to carry, such as a backpack or duffle bag. For heavier items, such as food and water, using a tub or chest on wheels may make it easier to transport — but make sure it’s still light enough to lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"4\">\u003c/a>How should I prepare to get moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Make sure your family’s plan takes into account the best route(s) for leaving your location. If one route were blocked, would you still be able to evacuate to safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re anticipating evacuation, Cal Fire recommends that you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Put your emergency bag and supplies in your car, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once your vehicle is loaded, back it into the driveway with all doors and windows closed but carry your car keys \u003cem>with\u003c/em> you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Patrol your property and keep an eye on the fire situation online. Don’t wait for a mandatory evacuation order if you feel you’re in danger.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If it’s safe to do so, check on your neighbors and ensure they are planning to evacuate, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Make sure your pets are nearby and ready to leave.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you have more time to prepare your home for evacuation, Cal Fire has \u003ca href=\"#14\">more advice on how to give your property the best chance of surviving a wildfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of being trapped in an evacuation emergency, you should call 911 and turn on lights to help rescuers find you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing you shouldn’t do when evacuating? Don’t leave the water on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a home with hoses or sprinklers outside, you might be tempted to leave them running in the hopes that doing so may provide additional protection. But don’t do it. Leaving your water on decreases the volume of water flow available to firefighters — and that could actually keep them from saving your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Caldor Fire in September 2021, Tahoe fire officials \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433129219861594113/photo/1\">implored residents not to leave water running when they evacuate\u003c/a>, saying water providers noticed significant drawdowns in capacity in areas that should have been completely evacuated of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is [leaving the water on] not helpful in protecting homes from wildfire, but it can be detrimental for firefighters who rely on a water supply with adequate water flow to fight fire in extremely dangerous conditions,” said a press release from the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team. “This misuse of water can leave water supplies dangerously low when firefighters need fast access to water from fire hydrants to protect homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>What should I wear to evacuate?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area experiences high temperatures, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/\">Cal Fire’s evacuation guide\u003c/a> recommends that you cover up to protect against heat and flying embers, and says 100% cotton is preferable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide advises you to wear long pants, a long sleeve shirt, heavy shoes/boots, a cap, a dry bandana for a face cover and goggles or glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>Where do I go once I’ve evacuated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you’re making an evacuation plan, first check to see whether you can stay in a hotel or with friends and family, which may be the safest options during the pandemic. \u003ca href=\"#7\">Here’s how to find an evacuation center\u003c/a> if you can’t make other arrangements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have relatives or friends outside the evacuation area whom you think might have space to accommodate you, ask them ahead of time so they’re prepared for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic Cal Fire’s evacuation guide has advised that you ask anyone you’re contemplating staying with if they have symptoms of COVID-19 or have people in their home at higher risk for serious illness. If the answer to one or both of those questions is “yes,” you may consider making other arrangements for your health and theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay in a hotel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check with hotels, motels or campgrounds outside your area to see whether they can accept you. Your county might also have a plan to free up available rooms. For example, in August 2020 Santa Cruz County officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-oes-asks-tourists-and-visitors-to-leave-town-immediately/33658712\"> requested that all visitors and tourists depart\u003c/a> to leave space for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>How do I find an evacuation center?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If staying with a friend or in a hotel isn’t an option, you can go to an evacuation center. It’s wise to research which center you’d be going to \u003cem>ahead\u003c/em> of time — because you don’t want to be researching your destination as you scramble to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of nearby evacuation centers will be provided by your county, \u003ca href=\"#2\">so find your nearest evacuation center\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that your evacuation center may be different from those in previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Red Cross also provides evacuation shelters across California. Check to see whether there’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/get-help/disaster-relief-and-recovery-services/find-an-open-shelter.html\">Red Cross evacuation shelter near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11835192 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man with blue bandana over lower half of face rests on cot in hangar-like building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44555_037_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke Piland, from Boulder Creek, takes a break from volunteering to set up cots at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his father left their home in Boulder Creek due to the CZU Lightning Complex fires. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"9\">\u003c/a>What if this all happens at night?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the event of an evacuation order, a “hi-lo” siren that should be loud enough to wake you will be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned your home is under threat, make sure you update yourself on the situation before going to bed. If you have alerts set up on your phone, take your phone off any nighttime mode settings and make sure your alert notification sounds have the volume turned all the way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of evacuation in the middle of the night is also why it’s important to have your plans made and your emergency bag ready ahead of time — and to keep your supplies somewhere that you can grab them quickly and easily, even if you’ve just woken up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"10\">\u003c/a>What if I or someone in my family has a medical or mobility issue?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ensure that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">your emergency bag\u003c/a> has any medicines, supplies or home-use medical devices you and your family might need — with a medications list that includes prescriptions and other important medical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned about medical supplies and facilities at an evacuation center, Heather Williams of Cal Fire recommends contacting your county and/or the Red Cross ahead of time, to find out about their plan for accommodating medical needs in evacuation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835193\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11835193 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man sits on a cot petting a dog, beside a standing woman with purple hair and a red tent on a grassy field\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44549_031_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill and Sharon Fisk with their dog at a campsite on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Santa Cruz Country Fairgrounds evacuation center. They evacuated from Ben Lomond, in the Santa Cruz mountains, due to the CZU Lightning Complex fires. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"11\">\u003c/a>What about my pets?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have pets, consider their needs in your emergency bag preparations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">Read our checklist for pets\u003c/a>, which includes enough food and water to last your pet two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure your pets have collars with identification and rabies and license tags. Check to make sure your contact information is up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on transporting pets, larger animals and livestock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">check Cal Fire’s guide to animal evacuation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"12\">\u003c/a>What if I don’t have a car?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s important that your emergency bag is light enough to transport without a car, and be carried (or pulled, in a tub or a chest on wheels) easily. Even if you have a vehicle, you might find yourself in an evacuation situation that demands you leave it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"wildfires","label":"Latest news "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re worried about how you’ll leave your home area without a car, Cal Fire’s Heather Williams recommends that you work with your neighbors — or nearby friends and family, if you have them — to coordinate. If you’re relying on someone else’s car to evacuate, she recommends you leave your home “sooner rather than later” because your ride might not be able to physically get to you if you leave it too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"13\">\u003c/a>What if I or a family member doesn’t have a smartphone?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Counties increasingly rely on the WEA system — wireless emergency alerts — that by and large are delivered to cellphones through the IPAWS system, the federal integrated public alert and warning system. Those alerts also go to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"14\">\u003c/a>What should I do for my house before I leave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re anticipating an evacuation and have time to prepare your house, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/pre-evacuation-preparation-steps/\">Cal Fire has a guide to giving your home the best chance of surviving a wildfire\u003c/a>. Their checklist includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Shut off gas at the meter; turn off pilot lights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shut off the air conditioning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shut all windows and doors, leaving them \u003cem>unlocked.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Remove flammable window shades, curtains and close metal shutters, and remove lightweight curtains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Move flammable furniture to the center of the room, away from windows and doors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leave your lights on so firefighters can see your house under smoky conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1965575/and-now-fire-season-heres-how-to-prepare\">more information about keeping your home prepared for wildfires all year round\u003c/a> — including how to create defensible space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"6208","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/6208.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan","authors":["3243","11367","11223","250"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_6383","news_21788","news_27626","news_787","news_25347","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11835196","label":"news"},"news_11988661":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988661","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988661","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chrissy-things-cant-go-on-like-this-forever","title":"Chrissy: 'Things Can't Go On Like This Forever'","publishDate":1717372811,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Chrissy: ‘Things Can’t Go On Like This Forever’ | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.\u003c/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Chrissy is a musician, DJ, and producer who makes dance music in the realm of house, rave, and techno. Chrissy grew up in a fairly rough neighborhood in Kansas City, where he didn’t feel accepted as someone who didn’t consider themselves as a “super heteronormative, gender conforming, person out in the world.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrissy’s older sister was involved in the rave scene and introduced him to the music through mixtapes when he was a child. He later began attending diverse events and nightclubs while learning more about the dance music scene on his own. The song “Things Can’t Go On Like This Forever” was written and produced by Chrissy and sang by his friend Carrie Wilds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the origins of queer dance music, Chrissy says it’s historically tied to many of the struggles from the Civil Rights Movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that when you went out for a night of dancing, you and your partner would dance face to face,” said Chrissy. “Music performances evolved out of the era when men dancing with other men or women dancing with other women at underground gay bars was illegal. The scene kind of originated out of a place of refuge and acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrissy says he thinks about DJing when writing music as well as how the music will be received. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely write things with the idea of how they’re going to work functionally in a nightclub or at a party,” said Chrissy. “I’m thinking about how it would sound to a crowd in a big room with people dancing to it, but also kind of thinking of how another DJ would be able to use it in one of their sets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to moving to the Bay Area eight years ago, he spent time in Chicago immersed in the city’s dance music culture. While he enjoyed it, he feels that the Bay Area’s music culture is friendlier and warmer, particularly the East Bay queer party scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much amazing stuff happening right now,” he said. “I’ve been really impressed by the diversity of where in the region events are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to hear Chrissy live, he’ll be performing at \u003ca href=\"https://ra.co/events/1932399\">Mothership Bar\u003c/a> in San Francisco on June 22 at 9 p.m. as part of a showcase organized by local music organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Se9-WvRDK/?img_index=1\">White Crate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In this episode of the Sunday Music Drop, San Francisco's Chrissy shares his song \"Things Can't Go On Like This Forever\" and talks about the queer dance music scene in the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717372672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":473},"headData":{"title":"Chrissy: 'Things Can't Go On Like This Forever' | KQED","description":"In this episode of the Sunday Music Drop, San Francisco's Chrissy shares his song "Things Can't Go On Like This Forever" and talks about the queer dance music scene in the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Chrissy: 'Things Can't Go On Like This Forever'","datePublished":"2024-06-02T17:00:11-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-02T16:57:52-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Sunday Music Drop","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop","audioUrl":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SMD_CHRISSY-SELECTS_240602.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988661/chrissy-things-cant-go-on-like-this-forever","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.\u003c/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Chrissy is a musician, DJ, and producer who makes dance music in the realm of house, rave, and techno. Chrissy grew up in a fairly rough neighborhood in Kansas City, where he didn’t feel accepted as someone who didn’t consider themselves as a “super heteronormative, gender conforming, person out in the world.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrissy’s older sister was involved in the rave scene and introduced him to the music through mixtapes when he was a child. He later began attending diverse events and nightclubs while learning more about the dance music scene on his own. The song “Things Can’t Go On Like This Forever” was written and produced by Chrissy and sang by his friend Carrie Wilds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the origins of queer dance music, Chrissy says it’s historically tied to many of the struggles from the Civil Rights Movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that when you went out for a night of dancing, you and your partner would dance face to face,” said Chrissy. “Music performances evolved out of the era when men dancing with other men or women dancing with other women at underground gay bars was illegal. The scene kind of originated out of a place of refuge and acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrissy says he thinks about DJing when writing music as well as how the music will be received. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely write things with the idea of how they’re going to work functionally in a nightclub or at a party,” said Chrissy. “I’m thinking about how it would sound to a crowd in a big room with people dancing to it, but also kind of thinking of how another DJ would be able to use it in one of their sets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to moving to the Bay Area eight years ago, he spent time in Chicago immersed in the city’s dance music culture. While he enjoyed it, he feels that the Bay Area’s music culture is friendlier and warmer, particularly the East Bay queer party scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much amazing stuff happening right now,” he said. “I’ve been really impressed by the diversity of where in the region events are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to hear Chrissy live, he’ll be performing at \u003ca href=\"https://ra.co/events/1932399\">Mothership Bar\u003c/a> in San Francisco on June 22 at 9 p.m. as part of a showcase organized by local music organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Se9-WvRDK/?img_index=1\">White Crate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988661/chrissy-things-cant-go-on-like-this-forever","authors":["11772","11784"],"categories":["news_29992","news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_31662","news_31663"],"featImg":"news_11988663","label":"source_news_11988661"},"news_11988365":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988365","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988365","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now","title":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now","publishDate":1717163461,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambitious proposal for a regional tax seen as crucial to the long-term survival of Bay Area public transit agencies is dead, the casualty of a dispute over the scope of the measure and who would control the billions of dollars it would raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Aisha Wahab of Hayward, the Democratic co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031\">SB 1031\u003c/a>, announced late Thursday they were pulling the bill from further consideration this year in the face of growing opposition across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked very hard over the course of this year to try to build consensus within the region around this measure,” Wiener said in an interview. “It became clear that we didn’t have enough time to get that done this year. There are times when you have to take a deep breath, hit the reset button and start over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab issued a statement saying the needs the bill addressed, including efficiency, agency consolidation and improved governance, are still urgent. “Riders deserve that, and stakeholders need to prioritize these efforts to save public transit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, dubbed the Connect Bay Area Act, would authorize a November 2026 vote on a multicounty tax measure to raise as much as $1.5 billion a year to help pay for train, bus and ferry operations and for initiatives to help better integrate the 27 agencies that deliver those services. The bill would also pay for some street and highway work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he remains committed to crafting a plan that will allow transit agencies to head off major deficits and deep service cuts and promised to bring a new measure to the Legislature early next year. Work on a new proposal will begin immediately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — I can’t guarantee it — but my hope is that by late 2024 we’ll at least have a structure in place so we can be optimistic about 2025 and give the (transit) operators that same optimism” that financial help is on the way, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has been seen as crucial to ensuring that BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other agencies aren’t forced to slash service because of catastrophic deficits they’re facing in the next few years. The shortfalls are due mostly to the loss of ridership and fare revenue thanks to the pandemic and continuing shifts in work and commute patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was also seen as a vehicle to pay for making transit more frequent, reliable and affordable across the region. It would do that not only by helping agencies purchase more vehicles, but by integrating fares and schedules among agencies and requiring large employers to subsidize all-you-can-ride transit passes for their workers.[aside postID=\"news_11985190,news_11985965\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, which is just as complex as its 10,000-word length implies, drew resistance from many quarters. Progressive transportation advocates said they’d oppose the measure if it allowed funding for highway expansion projects. Officials with some transit operators, like Caltrain, didn’t like a provision that would require a study of how to consolidate at least some of the region’s 27 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a falling out about what kind of taxes or fees the bill should allow. The proposal offered several alternatives: a half-cent sales tax, a parcel tax on property owners, a payroll tax to be paid by employers, or a future vehicle registration surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business groups, including the Bay Area Council, said they’d oppose a payroll tax. Some bill supporters were cool to the idea of a sales tax, a levy that would fall most heavily on lower-income residents in an already heavily taxed region. Bill sponsors rejected a proposal from progressive transit advocates to consider a regional income tax on higher-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most significant disagreements centered on the issue of “return to source,” or how much money raised in each Bay Area county would be available to use there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provided that tax proceeds would be funneled through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It guaranteed that during the proposed tax measure’s first five years, at least 70% of revenue generated in a county would be invested in projects and programs that benefited that county. That percentage would rise to 90% after the initial five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials came out against the measure, saying that the initial 70% allocation was too low and that funds should come back directly to the county without the MTC’s involvement. Officials in the South Bay said they were also concerned that a new sales tax would interfere with several existing sales taxes that support transit operations in the county and are being used to help pay for the $12.7 billion BART extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dispute came to a head last Friday when the bill made it to the State Senate floor. Sen. Dave Cortese, a San José Democrat, called the SB 1031 tax proposal “an existential threat” to Santa Clara County and complained that his proposal to send revenue from the tax directly to the counties had been “flat out rejected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That told me that we need to organize people in my area and we need to make sure we do everything we can to put a stop to this,” Cortese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Wiener and Wahab promising further work on the bill, the Senate approved it 26-10 and sent it to the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener on Thursday acknowledged Santa Clara County’s influence in the decision to pull the bill, but he said it’s crucial to find a way to put public transportation on a healthy financial footing for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge that we have is how do we fund these priorities in a way that all the different counties around the region feel like they’re being treated fairly and feel like they are getting a strong benefit from the measure?” he said. “If we’re asking people to pay in, we want people to be confident that they are getting a benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Griffiths, the policy director for Seamless Bay Area, a grassroots group that was one of the bill’s chief advocates, said he was disappointed the measure has been withdrawn. But he says that creates an opportunity to better communicate the benefits a transit tax measure could deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said advocates could do that “by spending time over the next six months developing a clear service vision of the transit network that we’re trying to create. We’ve talked about policies like integrated fares and integrated service, but actually having a … map of service improvements across the region, really I think can help make it more real” for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026, is currently projected at $385 million, with annual shortfalls of $350 million or more continuing into the foreseeable future. San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs Muni transit service, expects its deficit to top $200 million during the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both agencies, like most other transit operators across the country, have survived on massive infusions of federal cash to replace lost fare revenue. They have warned of drastic service cuts if new operating support isn’t forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-transit-death-spiral-19472978.php\">earlier this week\u003c/a> that major service cuts could begin next year. BART, which has said it may have to shut down two of its five lines, shutter some stations and run trains as much as 60 minutes apart, has not talked about when such steps might be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither agency responded immediately to requests for comment on the latest legislative developments.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amid growing opposition, sponsors pull measure that would authorize regional vote on a tax that would have raised as much as $1.5 billion a year. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717205380,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1345},"headData":{"title":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now | KQED","description":"Amid growing opposition, sponsors pull measure that would authorize regional vote on a tax that would have raised as much as $1.5 billion a year. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now","datePublished":"2024-05-31T06:51:01-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T18:29:40-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988365","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambitious proposal for a regional tax seen as crucial to the long-term survival of Bay Area public transit agencies is dead, the casualty of a dispute over the scope of the measure and who would control the billions of dollars it would raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Aisha Wahab of Hayward, the Democratic co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031\">SB 1031\u003c/a>, announced late Thursday they were pulling the bill from further consideration this year in the face of growing opposition across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked very hard over the course of this year to try to build consensus within the region around this measure,” Wiener said in an interview. “It became clear that we didn’t have enough time to get that done this year. There are times when you have to take a deep breath, hit the reset button and start over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab issued a statement saying the needs the bill addressed, including efficiency, agency consolidation and improved governance, are still urgent. “Riders deserve that, and stakeholders need to prioritize these efforts to save public transit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, dubbed the Connect Bay Area Act, would authorize a November 2026 vote on a multicounty tax measure to raise as much as $1.5 billion a year to help pay for train, bus and ferry operations and for initiatives to help better integrate the 27 agencies that deliver those services. The bill would also pay for some street and highway work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he remains committed to crafting a plan that will allow transit agencies to head off major deficits and deep service cuts and promised to bring a new measure to the Legislature early next year. Work on a new proposal will begin immediately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — I can’t guarantee it — but my hope is that by late 2024 we’ll at least have a structure in place so we can be optimistic about 2025 and give the (transit) operators that same optimism” that financial help is on the way, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has been seen as crucial to ensuring that BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other agencies aren’t forced to slash service because of catastrophic deficits they’re facing in the next few years. The shortfalls are due mostly to the loss of ridership and fare revenue thanks to the pandemic and continuing shifts in work and commute patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was also seen as a vehicle to pay for making transit more frequent, reliable and affordable across the region. It would do that not only by helping agencies purchase more vehicles, but by integrating fares and schedules among agencies and requiring large employers to subsidize all-you-can-ride transit passes for their workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11985190,news_11985965","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, which is just as complex as its 10,000-word length implies, drew resistance from many quarters. Progressive transportation advocates said they’d oppose the measure if it allowed funding for highway expansion projects. Officials with some transit operators, like Caltrain, didn’t like a provision that would require a study of how to consolidate at least some of the region’s 27 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a falling out about what kind of taxes or fees the bill should allow. The proposal offered several alternatives: a half-cent sales tax, a parcel tax on property owners, a payroll tax to be paid by employers, or a future vehicle registration surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business groups, including the Bay Area Council, said they’d oppose a payroll tax. Some bill supporters were cool to the idea of a sales tax, a levy that would fall most heavily on lower-income residents in an already heavily taxed region. Bill sponsors rejected a proposal from progressive transit advocates to consider a regional income tax on higher-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most significant disagreements centered on the issue of “return to source,” or how much money raised in each Bay Area county would be available to use there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provided that tax proceeds would be funneled through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It guaranteed that during the proposed tax measure’s first five years, at least 70% of revenue generated in a county would be invested in projects and programs that benefited that county. That percentage would rise to 90% after the initial five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials came out against the measure, saying that the initial 70% allocation was too low and that funds should come back directly to the county without the MTC’s involvement. Officials in the South Bay said they were also concerned that a new sales tax would interfere with several existing sales taxes that support transit operations in the county and are being used to help pay for the $12.7 billion BART extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dispute came to a head last Friday when the bill made it to the State Senate floor. Sen. Dave Cortese, a San José Democrat, called the SB 1031 tax proposal “an existential threat” to Santa Clara County and complained that his proposal to send revenue from the tax directly to the counties had been “flat out rejected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That told me that we need to organize people in my area and we need to make sure we do everything we can to put a stop to this,” Cortese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Wiener and Wahab promising further work on the bill, the Senate approved it 26-10 and sent it to the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener on Thursday acknowledged Santa Clara County’s influence in the decision to pull the bill, but he said it’s crucial to find a way to put public transportation on a healthy financial footing for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge that we have is how do we fund these priorities in a way that all the different counties around the region feel like they’re being treated fairly and feel like they are getting a strong benefit from the measure?” he said. “If we’re asking people to pay in, we want people to be confident that they are getting a benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Griffiths, the policy director for Seamless Bay Area, a grassroots group that was one of the bill’s chief advocates, said he was disappointed the measure has been withdrawn. But he says that creates an opportunity to better communicate the benefits a transit tax measure could deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said advocates could do that “by spending time over the next six months developing a clear service vision of the transit network that we’re trying to create. We’ve talked about policies like integrated fares and integrated service, but actually having a … map of service improvements across the region, really I think can help make it more real” for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026, is currently projected at $385 million, with annual shortfalls of $350 million or more continuing into the foreseeable future. San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs Muni transit service, expects its deficit to top $200 million during the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both agencies, like most other transit operators across the country, have survived on massive infusions of federal cash to replace lost fare revenue. They have warned of drastic service cuts if new operating support isn’t forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-transit-death-spiral-19472978.php\">earlier this week\u003c/a> that major service cuts could begin next year. BART, which has said it may have to shut down two of its five lines, shutter some stations and run trains as much as 60 minutes apart, has not talked about when such steps might be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither agency responded immediately to requests for comment on the latest legislative developments.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24191","news_269","news_20008","news_320","news_1764","news_18188","news_1217"],"featImg":"news_11941203","label":"news"},"forum_2010101905934":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101905934","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"forum","id":"2010101905934","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-how-to-say-more","title":"Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on How to ‘Say More’","publishDate":1717191700,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on How to ‘Say More’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she learned some of her most effective communication strategies “the hard way.” These techniques were absorbed, refined and stress-tested on her rise to one of the most powerful communication roles in the nation. And as she writes in her new book, they’re “applicable to a wide range of life experiences, whether you’re a parent talking to a teacher about your preschooler, a friend trying to encourage a coworker to take a risk, or a young female staffer trying to convince the most powerful man in the world what he might want to include in his State of the Union address.” We talk to Psaki about how to achieve common understanding and about the importance of knowing your audience, especially in our politically divided nation. Her new book is called “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We talk to Psaki about how to achieve common understanding and about the importance of knowing your audience, especially in our politically divided nation. Her new book is called “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.”","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717191700,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":161},"headData":{"title":"Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on How to ‘Say More’ | KQED","description":"We talk to Psaki about how to achieve common understanding and about the importance of knowing your audience, especially in our politically divided nation. 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And as she writes in her new book, they’re “applicable to a wide range of life experiences, whether you’re a parent talking to a teacher about your preschooler, a friend trying to encourage a coworker to take a risk, or a young female staffer trying to convince the most powerful man in the world what he might want to include in his State of the Union address.” We talk to Psaki about how to achieve common understanding and about the importance of knowing your audience, especially in our politically divided nation. Her new book is called “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/forum/2010101905934/former-white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-how-to-say-more","authors":["243"],"categories":["forum_165"],"featImg":"forum_2010101905936","label":"forum"},"news_11988253":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988253","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988253","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-assembly-divided-as-controversial-shoplifting-bill-secures-narrow-victory","title":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory","publishDate":1717178430,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> did something exceptional last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the only legislator to vote “no” on a controversial piece of legislation, while nearly half of the 80 members in the state Assembly — and a majority of the Democrats — did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which would make it easier to arrest shoplifters, is a recent example of a pattern CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">revealed in April\u003c/a> with legislators dodging votes to avoid offending the bill’s supporters or eliminating a record of their opposition on controversial topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1990\">Assembly Bill 1990\u003c/a> passed the Assembly 44–1 last week with 35 lawmakers not casting a vote, including 32 of the 62 Democrats and the Assembly speaker, Robert Rivas. Some of those not voting had excused absences, but the Legislature’s online record does not distinguish between an absence, an abstention or not voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would allow police to arrest for shoplifting without a warrant, even if they did not witness the crime. Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/wendy-carrillo-144588\">Assemblymember Wendy Carillo\u003c/a>, who authored the bill with five Democratic and two Republican coauthors, said it is “in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257760?t=1500&f=4c57845c6abf19d3cc28364cfc28ecb2\">alarming escalation of organized retail theft\u003c/a>,” which has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-climate-health-homelessness/\">hot-button political issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressive Democrats, leery of increasing incarceration rates for minor offenses, were uncomfortable with the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: AB 1990 will not stop retail theft,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/tina-mckinnor-35053\">Tina McKinnor\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=432&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">told her colleagues\u003c/a>. “AB 1990 will increase the unnecessary harassment, detention, arrest and mass incarceration of Black and brown Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=549&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">She concluded her speech\u003c/a>: “I am asking all of you to please vote ‘no’ on AB 1990.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, however, did not vote on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not respond to CalMatters’ request for an explanation about why she did not vote despite her clear opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra, of San Jose, also did not respond to a request from CalMatters to explain why he cast the lone “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalra has been a longtime champion of progressive causes. He’s a former deputy public defender and the former chair of the Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/offices-caucuses/legislative-progressive-caucus\">Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>. He has advocated for legislation that seeks to end \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2542\">systematic racism in the justice system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, it seemed Kalra would not be the lone Democrat to vote “no” on AB 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rick-chavez-zbur-165429\">Rick Chavez Zbur\u003c/a> of Los Angeles was also listed as voting “no,” according \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=845&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">to a video of the voting roll call\u003c/a> captured by CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zbur, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"https://a51.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240524-zbur-bill-eliminate-barriers-home-supportive-services-ihss-advances-senate\">Assembly Democratic Caucus\u003c/a>, changed his vote after the bill passed so that he would be formally listed as not voting. In the Assembly, members can change their vote on a bill after a hearing has concluded, as long as it doesn’t change the final outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to explain why he changed his vote, his spokesperson, Vienna Montague, said in an email that Zbur “does not have a comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While AB 1990 survived to advance to the Senate, despite so many lawmakers not voting, other bills haven’t fared as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11987415,news_11982393,news_11980483\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Last year, at least 15 bills died due to lack of votes instead of lawmakers voting “no” on them. So far this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database indicates at least 17 bills have died because lawmakers declined to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Senate and Assembly leaders have repeatedly refused to answer CalMatters’ questions about whether the Legislature’s voting rules should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians may think not voting helps their political career in the long run since they believe it’ll be more difficult for someone to use a controversial “no” vote against them in a campaign ad, said \u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/kousser-profile.html\">Thad Kousser\u003c/a>, a former California legislative staffer who’s now a political science professor at UC San Diego. But he said that’s shortsighted. 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Some of those not voting had excused absences, but the Legislature’s online record does not distinguish between an absence, an abstention or not voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would allow police to arrest for shoplifting without a warrant, even if they did not witness the crime. Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/wendy-carrillo-144588\">Assemblymember Wendy Carillo\u003c/a>, who authored the bill with five Democratic and two Republican coauthors, said it is “in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257760?t=1500&f=4c57845c6abf19d3cc28364cfc28ecb2\">alarming escalation of organized retail theft\u003c/a>,” which has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-climate-health-homelessness/\">hot-button political issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressive Democrats, leery of increasing incarceration rates for minor offenses, were uncomfortable with the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: AB 1990 will not stop retail theft,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/tina-mckinnor-35053\">Tina McKinnor\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=432&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">told her colleagues\u003c/a>. “AB 1990 will increase the unnecessary harassment, detention, arrest and mass incarceration of Black and brown Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=549&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">She concluded her speech\u003c/a>: “I am asking all of you to please vote ‘no’ on AB 1990.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, however, did not vote on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not respond to CalMatters’ request for an explanation about why she did not vote despite her clear opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra, of San Jose, also did not respond to a request from CalMatters to explain why he cast the lone “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalra has been a longtime champion of progressive causes. 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In the Assembly, members can change their vote on a bill after a hearing has concluded, as long as it doesn’t change the final outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to explain why he changed his vote, his spokesperson, Vienna Montague, said in an email that Zbur “does not have a comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While AB 1990 survived to advance to the Senate, despite so many lawmakers not voting, other bills haven’t fared as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11987415,news_11982393,news_11980483","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last year, at least 15 bills died due to lack of votes instead of lawmakers voting “no” on them. So far this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database indicates at least 17 bills have died because lawmakers declined to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Senate and Assembly leaders have repeatedly refused to answer CalMatters’ questions about whether the Legislature’s voting rules should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians may think not voting helps their political career in the long run since they believe it’ll be more difficult for someone to use a controversial “no” vote against them in a campaign ad, said \u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/kousser-profile.html\">Thad Kousser\u003c/a>, a former California legislative staffer who’s now a political science professor at UC San Diego. But he said that’s shortsighted. 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What else could make this picture complete? How about a Mai Tai?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This rum cocktail makes many of us think of the tropics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought the Mai Tai came from Hawaii,” says Bay Curious listener Terese O’Malley from Oakland. “But then I noticed a few tiki bars in the Oakland area claiming the invention of the Mai Tai. I thought, ‘could this be real? Or is this a myth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked Bay Curious to get to the bottom of it. 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