Side-Quest Proposal - BDS in the Central Valley

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

At the 2025-09-04 General Meeting Minutes, we voted to work on the following:

@chima

The initial steps would be to

1. file a PRA requests to identify city and county investments;
2. develop messaging around the Port of Stockton;
3. gauge public interest with targeted flyers and an online sign up form.

We will reevaluate our next steps next month based on our results.

Action Items

Research, write up, and file PRA requests

Using the examples of Hayward and Richmond California, we should figure out exactly what we need record requests for to send into every town in San Joaquin County (and make that template available for others). If you would like to get started ahead of time, please use this Google Doc.

Update from 2025-09-12T07:00:00Z.

@chima

The plan moving forward is:

• Make a full BDS list
• Request all information (listed below) from all cities; even if publicly available right now, it is in PDF format. We can request excels that they might already have back end access to.
• Compile preliminary data from the PDFs we do have, make a social media post, ask people to sign up to help us further or to get updates in order to better gauge interest in this.

Items to Request

• Monthly or Quarterly Investment Portfolio Reports
• Transaction History Report - a list of all securities bought and sold by the city
• Statement of Investment Policy - their policy for what they can and cannot investment in
• External Investment Advisor or Asset Manager
• A list of all vendors paid by the city/county in fiscal year xxx including the vendor name, xxx, and total amount paid
• A copy of all active contracts between the city/county and company, including POs and statements of work + also any past in the last x years

Check out the Google doc for the links

Port of Stockton Messaging

The second phase of this is to look into who is on the Port of Stockton Commission and develop messaging around them that connects their local oligarch status to our labor and union work. If you would like to get started ahead of time, please use this Google Doc.

Otherwise, we are working on both of these during the following:

• BDS Research Meeting: Thursday Sept 11 @ 10:15PM - 11:15PM (Calendar)
• We are also scheduling a day to work on this between Sept 22-28 as a group. Please fill this out Rallly.WCU with your availability so we can schedule a time.

[