VIDEO. From the Midcoast Community Council (MCC) meeting on Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 at 7:00pm by Zoom.
San Mateo County District 3 Supervisor, Ray Mueller, reports.
January 26th, 2023; D3 Supervisor Ray Mueller’s Facebook
KQED Forum. ALAS Director Belinda Arriaga. Half Moon Bay Farmworker Community Processes Mass Shooting
PODCAST. From KQED’s Forum on Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 at 9:00am.
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After seven farm workers were killed Monday in a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, the city’s vice-mayor Joaquin Jimenez said in a press conference, “Many of you come to our community for the pumpkins, and ignore the farm workers. Not today.” Forum discusses the work, lives and struggles of farmworkers on California’s central coast, and we get the latest on the investigation and fallout from the massacre.
Guests:
Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, executive director and founder of ALAS (Ayudando Latinos A Soñar), a community group in Half Moon Bay and licensed clinical social worker
Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent and co-host of Political Breakdown show, KQED
Madi Bolanos, co-host of The California Report, KQED
Antonio De Loera-Brust, Director of Communications, United Farm Workers
Ximena Bustillo, politics reporter, NPR; former food and agriculture policy reporter, Politico covering immigration, labor and equity issues
Donate to HMB Strong Fund
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Many workers and their families are suffering as a result through loss of friends and colleagues, living arrangements, and employment. The organizations that are helping are ALAS, Coastside Hope, IDES Hall, City of HMB, and San Mateo County. If you’d like to know how you can help, gift cards can be purchased through ALAS Donate and Coastside Hope Donate.
MCC Agendas, Videos and Lots and Lots of Documents!
Thanks to exMCC’s Lisa Ketcham (now on the San Mateo County Planning Commission) for an incredibly well curated website archive on local planning issues.
Link to MCC Virtual Meetings
Midcoast Community Council Website
Midcoast Community Council (MCC) is an elected Municipal Advisory Council to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, representing Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton, and Miramar.
Regular MCC meetings are on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM at Granada Community Services District (GCSD) meeting room, 504 Ave Alhambra, third floor, El Granada. All MCC meetings are open to the public, and are agendized and posted according to the requirements of the Brown Act.
Agenda item supporting documents are available 72 hours in advance of meetings on http://www.MidcoastCommunityCouncil.org.
Minutes from previous meetings on http://www.midcoastcommunitycouncil.org/2017-2018/
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Midcoast Community Councilmembers
MCC: midcoastcommunitycouncil@gmail.com
P.O. Box 248, Moss Beach, CA 94038
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Gregg Dieguez, Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-544-0714
Email: MCCGreggD@gmail.com
Claire Toutant, Vice Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2026
Phone: 650-676-5847
Email: midcoast.claire@gmail.com
Scott Bollinger, Secretary – Term Ends: Dec 2026
Phone: 650-773-4425
Email: scottbollingerMCC@gmail.com
Dan Haggerty, Treasurer – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-212-6026
Email : midcoastdan@gmail.com
Gus Mattammal, Member – Term Ends: Dec 2026
Phone: 650-451-5335
Email: midcoastgus@gmail.com
Vacancy for term ending 2026
Vacancy for term ending 2024