Dear Friends of Public Banking,
A very warm and Happy New Year’s greeting to you all. The
Friends of Public Banking working group has been diligently working away and we
have created a Proposed Resolution to Create a Public Bank of Santa Rosa. We
ask for your immediate support in endorsing this Proposal. We are asking that
the city fund a feasibility study for a Public Bank of Santa Rosa. You may read
the Proposal in full and endorse it on our website at the following link:http://www.publicbanksantarosa.org/endorse.html
You may further show your support by signing our online
petition, which also asks the city to support our recommendation to fund a
feasibility study for a Public Bank of Santa Rosa.
These requests are urgent
due to the fact that the Santa Rosa City Council will be conducting their
annual Public Hearing for 2018/2019 Budget Priorities at their regularly
scheduled city council meeting this Tuesday, January 9th at 5:00pm
at City Hall on 100 Santa Rosa Ave.
We would like to present a long list of supporters of
both individuals and organizations for the Proposal at this meeting. It would
be excellent if you could attend this meeting in solidarity to show resounding support
in the request to fund the feasibility study this year. The more people who
attend and speak to this request, the more likely it is that the council will
approve the feasibility study. If you can attend, wear green and speak to the
items in the Proposal that resonate most strongly with you. You can find the
full city council meeting agenda at the following link for the January 9th
meeting item #16.1 https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
May 2018 be the year that the City of Santa Rosa takes
strong and direct action to establish a Bank of Santa Rosa.
To our collective best always,
Shelly Browning
Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa
"The tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut that held its ground." ~ Unknown