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With the small number of people in Salem today, we will not have an official HSCO meeting at noon today. Some of the remaining folks in Salem will be meeting up in room 167A at noon for a quick 15 minute update. If anyone has any last-minute information, please feel free to attend and share with the group.
Please note there is no HSCO monthly meeting scheduled for March. Our next scheduled meeting with be Wednesday, April 4 from 1pm-3pm at the Oregon Health Care Association.
Next Meeting:
Wednesday April 4, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Oregon Health Care Association, 11740 SW 68th Pkwy #250, Portland, OR
Directions from Portland: http://g.co/maps/yxs8f
Directions from Salem: http://g.co/maps/6jb2w
NEW CONFERENCE NUMBER: Dial-in 1-530-881-1000, Access Code 300375#.
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Hope to see you at today's HSCO meeting. We'll be meeting in the Capitol's Indian Affairs Room (167A) from Noon - 1pm. Please email Christel with any questions.
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Welcome back to session advocates! Our first HSCO meeting of the 2012 session is tomorrow, Monday, February 6, in the Capitol's Indian Affairs Room (167A) from noon to 1:00pm. We will continue to meet every Monday of the short session in Salem.
Our special guest is Duke Shepard, the Governor's Policy Adviser on Labor and Human Services. He is scheduled to speak at noon, so please arrive a couple minutes early.
For those calling in on Monday, we have a NEW CONFERENCE NUMBER: Dial-in 1-530-881-1000, Access Code 300375#.
If you have any questions, please email christel@nwpublicaffairs.com.
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The Human Services Coalition of Oregon (HSCO), and our network of more than 120 individuals and health and human services organizations, thank our legislators for their work this session to protect Oregon communities in a very difficult budget year. Thanks to hard work and creativity, we can celebrate some real wins this session. With this said, thousands of Oregon families are facing significant hardships, and cuts to critical services that support our communities will only get deeper in the coming months.
HSCO will be very active in the interim, working to build a budget that reflects Oregon’s true priorities and builds a positive future for all Oregonians.
Our legislative recap and priorities moving forward are linked below. We welcome your feedback and partnership.
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Steve Robinson's (Decision Metrics) presentation (The Great State Budget Crunch) has received quite a bit of buzz lately. After seeing the presentation The Statesman Journal wrote the linked editorial. (You may also download the pdf.)
Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Legislators owe it to themselves, and to their constituents, to see his presentation. The data are so eye-opening that they could dramatically alter the final weeks of the 2011 legislative session. Robinson's bottom line is that Oregon has been handing out tax breaks — officially called tax expenditures — far faster than it collects taxes."
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Friday's Oregonian included an editorial from the HSCO co-chairs on the current budget's affect on our most vulnerable. Titled "Oregon's budget priorities: It's too soon to uproot the foundations we've laid," it includes specific alternatives that our legislators can do to prevent the drastic cuts to Oregon's safety net programs.
Oregon's budget priorities: It's too soon to uproot the foundations we've laid
Please share, "like" and consider writing a letter to the editor that references the editorial.
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Bend: Oregon State University Cascades Campus, Cascades Hall, 2600 NW College Way
Pendleton (video conference): Blue Mountain Community College, Room E114, 2411 NW Carden Avenue
La Grande (video conference): Eastern Oregon University, Inlow Room 013, 1 University Boulevard
Coastal Oregon - Friday, May 6th 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Newport: Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, Hennings Auditorium, 2030 SE Marine Science Drive
Coos Bay (video conference): SW Oregon Community College, Eden Hall, 1988 Newmark Ave
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HSCO has created the attached one-pager to facilitate discussion about the human cost of the budget decisions our legislators will make this session. The current budget proposals will have a devastating impact on our most vulnerable Oregonians and undermine the social fabric that supports our middle class.
Bring this this tool to the Ways and Means Community Meeting at PCC Sylvania TONIGHT (12000 Southwest 49th Avenue Portland, OR 97219) or any of the other Road Show meetings (see below).
TONIGHT, Tuesday, April 19, Portland (PCC Sylvania): 5:00pm
Friday, April 22, Medford (TBA), 5:00pm
Friday, April 29, Bend (TBA), 4:00pm
Friday, May 6, Newport (TBA), 4:00pm
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The Human Services Coalition of Oregon advocates for the health and dignity of all Oregonians. We do this by supporting public policy that addresses the needs of vulnerable Oregonians.
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