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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mary Rose Kaczorowski <<a href="mailto:mrkaczorowski@gmail.com">mrkaczorowski@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 12, 2016 1:57:08 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mary Rose Kaczorowski <<a href="mailto:mrkaczorowski@gmail.com">mrkaczorowski@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Act Now: To Stop Closure of Ft. Bragg Mendocino Works Employment Resource Center - end of May 2016.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span dir="ltr"></span><br>Date: Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:52 PM<br>Subject: Act Now: To Stop Closure of Ft. Bragg Mendocino Works Employment Resource Center - end of May 2016.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PLEASE Act Now:<span> </span>To Stop Closure of Mendocino Works Employment Resource Center's Fort Bragg location. The resource center is slated to close by the end of May 2016. Share this info with other friends, family members and any organizations that you are a member with that could help!</span></p><div style="line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is urgent that you take the time ASAP to ask Federal, State and County elected officials (see their contact info below), “Why is the only ‘one stop shop’ Mendocino<b> Works Employment Resource Center </b>on the Mendocino Coast (located in the city of Fort Bragg) <b>being shut down in two weeks</b> after it has been downsized, and after it was relocated to inadequate and smaller office space and essentially underfunded and understaffed?</span></p><div style="line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This Mendocino Works Employment Resource Center provides crucial services for the coastal community that could have been scaled up- as other towns and cities are doing.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br> <br> EDD (including Unemployment Insurance), and State Disability and veteran services were part of this resource center.<span> </span>This resource center has been crucial in serving needs of women, young adults, bi-lingual customers, and older workers who have been displaced, and the resource center has fully advocated for the special needs of residents who have visible and hidden disabilities. Why is it closing by May 31st?</span></p><div style="line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This closing involves discontinuing in-person help from State, Federal, and County program and service representatives for our residents on the coast. </span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is a hardship on our coastal residents. If the services still remain in Ukiah, to get there is a difficult and long drive over the Coast Mountains. -- If one even has a vehicle. <br> <br> Every community in California has such services with on-site training facilities – providing services and training for job success.<br> <br> <br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Is the WIB (Workforce Investment Board) Board in charge of this action? The Workforce Investment Board is the <br> Employment and Training Connection for Mendocino County, California.<br> <br> Was the WIB Board involved in setting up this agency for closure and under the wire of public debate? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Why close this resource center? Who is responsible?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact: </span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://huffman.house.gov/contact/offices/washington-dc-office" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Washington, D.C. Office</span></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1630 Longworth House Office Building </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Washington, DC 20515</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Phone: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(202) 225-5161Fax: <a href="tel:%28202%29%20225-5163" value="+12022255163" target="_blank">(202) 225-5163</a><br> Jared Huffman's Field Rep: Heather Gurewitz <a href="tel:707-671-7440" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">707-671-7440</span></a><br> <a href="mailto:heather.gurewitz@mail.house.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">heather.gurewitz@mail.house.gov</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Senator McGuire<br> State Capitol Office</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br> Phone: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="tel:916-651-4002" value="+19166514002" target="_blank">916-651-4002</a><br> Fax: <a href="tel:916-651-4902" value="+19166514902" target="_blank">916-651-4902</a><br> <br> Senator Mike McGuire's staffer:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:kelly.burns@sen.ca.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">kelly.burns@sen.ca.gov</span></a><br> <br> <b><a href="http://assembly.ca.gov/a02" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">California Assembly Member Jim Wood</span></a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">State Capitol Office<br> Tel: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="tel:%28916%29%20319-2002" value="+19163192002" target="_blank">(916) 319-2002</a><br> Fax: <a href="tel:%28916%29%20319-2102" value="+19163192102" target="_blank">(916) 319-2102</a><br> staff member: <a href="mailto:deanna.sisk@asm.ca.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">deanna.sisk@asm.ca.gov</span></a></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Gjerde </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:Gjerde@co.mendicino.ca.us" target="_blank">Gjerde@co.mendicino.ca.us</a><br> <a href="tel:707-463-7229" value="+17074637229" target="_blank">707-463-7229</a><br> <a href="tel:707-961-2696" value="+17079612696" target="_blank">707-961-2696</a></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:vote@pacific.net" target="_blank">vote@pacific.net</a><br> <a href="tel:707-463-7231" value="+17074637231" target="_blank">707-463-7231</a><br> <a href="tel:707-467-0329" value="+17074670329" target="_blank">707-467-0329</a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mayor Dave Turner<br> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="tel:707-961-2823" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">707-961-2823</span></a> </span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </div> </div><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>