Latest Children’s Lobby Day brings Spokane members’ message to their legislators; make plans now for Presidents' Day Lobby Day
PHOTO (left to right): Maria Tart-Van Blaricum. Lonnie Lloyd, Sandra Hilzendeger, Norm LeBlanc and Amanda Plumb.
A group of Spokane Local 1221 members from DSHS Children’s Administration were at the Capitol today for the latest CA Lobby Day.
The Local 1221 group met in the morning with their 7th Dist. Sen. Shelly Short and one of their House members, Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber.
They made the case for adequate caseloads and to keep the ball rolling next year on the social worker student loan repayment bill.
Both the House and Senate versions of that bill are now dead – they didn’t clear this week’s committee cut-of deadline. But part of Lobby Day activism is to keep those good ideas on legislators’ radar screens. And the Local 1221 members did just that today.
BTW. The next big Lobby Day is on Monday, Feb. 19, Presidents’ Day. That will come just four days after the next state revenue forecast so that’s when supplemental budget action picks up.
