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Vol. 64 No. 16 | Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 64 Years
Proposed City of San Diego BLACK CALIFORNIANS: Progress, Persisting Racial Gap Highlighted Budget Highlights at State of Black California Conference By Antonio Ray Harvey, Maxim Elramsisy, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA The 2024 State of Black California Conference, held at UCLA on April 13, brought together about 200 policymakers, advocates, and community members to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Black Californians.
PHOTO: Screenshot via City of San Diego’s Fiscal Year Proposed Budget 2025 www.sandiego.gov/finance/proposed/Voice & Viewpoint
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The following is a brief summary:
resents an increase of $473.0 million, or 9.1 percent, compared to the Fiscal Year 2024 Adopted Budget. This is primarily due to increases in the Special Revenue Funds, Capital Improvements Program, Enterprise Funds, and General Fund. Increases in the General Fund are primarily associated with increased funding for wages and benefits, homelessness programs, and new facilities. The increases in the Special Revenue Funds are primarily associated with the EMS Alliance Model, and salary and fringe benefits across various funds. The increase in the Enterprise Funds is associated with salary and fringe benefits, cost increases to chemicals to treat water and wastewater, and debt payments. The Capital Improvements Program includes an increase in Water and Wastewater project-related appropriations.
The Fiscal Year 2025 Proposed Budget rep-
See HIGHLIGHTS page 2
Last week, Mayor Todd Gloria presented the City of San Diego’s Fiscal Year 2025 Proposed $5.65 billion and is comprised of five operating fund types and the Capital Improvements Program (CIP): • General Fund • Special Revenue Funds • Capital Project Funds • Enterprise Funds • Internal Service Funds
Advocates Highlight Black Homeownership
for National Housing Month
A key focus of the conference convened by The Black Policy Project, an initiative of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, along with the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) was the launch of the 2024 State of Black California report—Assessing 20 Years of Black Progress in
New Report Deems
UCSD ‘Deficient’
By McKenzie Jackson CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA April is National Fair Housing Month. In observance of it, the CRD and housing advocacy organizations across the state are highlighting fair housing practices and Black home ownership. The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) won a $10,000 fair housing settlement last November against a property management company, CIM Group LP, a global real estate company headquartered in Los Angeles, and property owner, RACR Sora, LLC, for implementing a blanket ban on renting to tenants with criminal histories at Sora Apartments in Inglewood. That illegal policy led to a number
of Black applicants being rejected. Three months earlier, the department, which enforces California’s civil rights laws, won another $20,000 civil rights settlement against a Lemon Grove property manager, who had targeted a Black tenant with a series of racist actions and threats of violence.
INSIDE
THIS WEEK'S ISSUE:
COUNTY HONORS COMMUNITY LEADERS SEE PAGE 9
THE MISSING PIECES PROJECT: ARCHIVING SD’S BLACK HISTORY
Geisel Library, a famous landmark of UC San Diego, was vandalized with swastikas in May 2022. PHOTO: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego
SEE PAGE 8
By Emily Kim Jenkins CONTRIBUTING WRITER
tism—the same grade received by Pomona University, California Technical Institute, CSU Northridge, and UCs Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis and Santa Barbara. See ANTISEMITISM page 2
POLITICAL PLAYBACK: Ca Capitol News You Might Have Missed By Antonio Ray Harvey, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
Hate Incident: White Supremacist Letter to Legislators, AG Bonta Says Black Maternal Deaths Are God’s Will A member of a White supremacist group wrote a racist letter addressed to members of the California Legislature and Attorney General Rob Bonta claiming deaths of Black mothers and children during childbirth are God’s will.
CRD Director Kevin Kish said the department investigates cases of apparent racial bias in housing and sometimes more subtle acts of prejudice like nuisance-free or crime-free housing policies or holding tenants to different standards based on their race. See HOMEOWNERSHIP page 2
See CONFERENCE page 2
in Combating Antisemitism
The University of California, San Diego received a ‘D’ grade on Thursday from the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) newly published College Antisemitism Report. The report claims that UCSD has a “deficient approach” to combating antisemi-
CLTRE Keeper Program Director Ashley Garner speaking to audience. PHOTO: Courtesy of CBM
IMAGE: bunchecenter.ucla.edu
the Golden State written by the Center for the CLBC.
See PLAYBACK page 2
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