Dear Friends,

The exciting news continues: The Legislature's newly-released budget proposal includes $132.2 million in JPAC priorities.

This is one of the last, crucial steps in the state's annual budget process. The proposal includes the four JPAC priority items totaling $93.2 million that were in the Governor's recent proposal, affirming that those items will likely be in the final budget.

Excitingly, it also includes two new JPAC priorities, totaling an additional $39 million:

  • $36 million for the California Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program (CHSAP), administered by our amazing Jewish Family Service agencies to help our Survivor population age with dignity.

  • $3 million to renovate and enhance the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center in San Francisco, allowing them to teach more students the lessons of the Holocaust.

While nothing is guaranteed until the budget is signed later this month, we are optimistic that each of these items will appear in the final budget.

We're grateful to Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, Senator Scott Wiener, Senator Henry Stern, and the entire Legislative Jewish Caucus for working closely with us to develop these proposals and for championing them in the legislature.

We must also thank and congratulate all of you for your calls, emails, and participation in Advocacy Day – elevating the importance of our work and our priorities to state lawmakers.

As we said last time, this is a major victory. And it continues to grow.

Be on the lookout for upcoming action alerts to further our priority legislation and remaining budget items. It's clear your participation makes a difference!


Onward,

David Bocarsly
JPAC Executive Director
JPAC is the voice of California’s Jewish community to the State Capitol, and the largest single-state coalition of Jewish organizations in the nation. We advocate in Sacramento on behalf of the Jewish community’s concerns and broadly shared values. Our member organizations collectively serve hundreds of thousands of Californians of all backgrounds and represent the interests of California’s 1.2 million Jews.
JPAC is a Coalition of California's Leading Jewish Community Organizations:
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles • Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco – Bay Area • Jewish Family Service LA • Jewish Family and Children’s Services of SF • 30 Years After • American Jewish Committee • Anti-Defamation League • Bet Tzedek Legal Services • ETTA • Hadassah • HIAS • Holocaust Museum Los Angeles • JCRC of Jewish Silicon Valley • Jewish Center for Justice • Jewish Community Relations Council of Sacramento • Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay • Jewish Family and Children's Service of Long Beach and Orange County • Jewish Family Service of San Diego • Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley • Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara • Jewish Federation of Orange County • Jewish Federation of San Diego County • Jewish Federation of the Desert • Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region • Jewish Free Loan Association • Jewish Long Beach • Jewish Vocational Service San Francisco • JVS SoCal • Rhoda Goldman Plaza