A Collaborative Conversation with Our 4 City Mayors 2/5/2021 1:00 PM - 2/5/2021 2:30 PM

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:05:20 GMT

A Collaborative Conversation with Our 4 City Mayors

Please join us as we poise questions to our 4 City Mayors and hear their take on key points affecting our county.
They will also each provide updates for us on the status of each city and how it impacts Santa Cruz County.

About Our City Mayors

	Yvette Brooks - City of Capitola brooksforcitycouncil@gmail.com Yvette Brooks is the first Hispanic Mayor for the City of Capitola. She is an advocate for early education and youth programming, a mother, wife and employee of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. Yvette is the second Vice President for the League of Cities Board of Director's, sits on the Childhood Advisory Council, LAFCO and Criminal Justice Committee.
	Jimmy Dutra - City of Watsonville jimmy.dutra@cityofwatsonville.org Mayor Jimmy Dutra is a third generation son of Watsonville. He is committed to making his community a safer, healthier and more vibrant place to live. Currently, Jimmy is a middle school teacher for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District and a member of several boards, including The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz County.
	Donna Meyers - City of Santa Cruz dmeyers@cityofsantacruz.com Donna Meyers was elected to Santa Cruz City Council in 2018. As a long time resident, Donna has been a nonprofit executive, consultant and a small business owner. She has spent her career working in environmental protection and water resource management.
	Derek Timm - City of Scotts Valley dtimm@scottsvalley.org Derek Timm is a small business owner and an attorney who practiced law with Seyfarth Shaw and Ropers Majeski, worked as VP, Business Development of Wish.com and founded Montalvo Homes & Estates. His community work includes six years as President of the Scotts Valley Educational Foundation, Chair of the SV Planning Commission and Chair of Save Our Schools, where he helped pass 3 measures for Scotts Valley Schools including Measure A to rebuild the Scotts Valley Middle School. In 2017 he was honored as Scotts Valley Man of the Year and in 2018 was elected to the Scotts Valley City Council.
About Our Moderators
	Chris Fusco - Executive Editor Lookout Santa Cruz chris@lookoutlocal.com Chris brings to Lookout the know-how of a big city newspaper editor with deep roots in community journalism. He began his career covering towns and schools in suburban Chicago for two newspapers, Shaw Media’s Northwest Herald and Paddock Publications’ Daily Herald, before joining the Chicago Sun-Times, where he spent 20 years in a variety of roles, including state government reporter, Watchdogs reporter, managing editor and, most recently, executive editor.
	Isabella Cueto - Government Accountability Correspondent, Lookout Santa Cruz isa@lookoutlocal.com Isabella joins the Lookout team as a government accountability reporter, building on her experience covering local government for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. Before moving to South Carolina, Cueto was in her hometown of Miami. She served as editor-in-chief of the University of Miami’s award-winning student newspaper, and was an intern for WLRN public radio and Northwestern University’s Medill Justice Project, which investigates potential wrongful convictions.

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Virtual Death Café 2/22/2021 5:00 PM - 2/22/2021 6:00 PM

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:35:41 GMT

Grab a mug of your favorite tea and meet us on Zoom to discuss death in an effort to affirm what’s important about life. A Death Café is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is not a grief support group or counseling session, just some folks getting together to drink tea and talk about death. The Death Café movement includes events all over the world. Learn more at deathcafe.com.

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A Collaborative Conversation with Our 4 City Mayors 2/5/2021 1:00 PM - 2/5/2021 2:30 PM

A Collaborative Conversation with Our 4 City Mayors

Virtual Death Café 2/22/2021 5:00 PM - 2/22/2021 6:00 PM