Turnout High for PHA's Annual Legislative Meeting at SDC

Complete minutes of Saturday's general meeting will be included in the next issue of The Eldridge Gazette, due out at the end of April. In the meantime, you can read a report of this year's legislative meeting filed by Sonoma Index-Tribune staff writer John Capone.

SDC family members address legislators
by John Capone, Sonoma Index-Tribune
March 11, 2013

Legislators, and representatives of legislators, gathered at the Sonoma Developmental Center in Eldridge Saturday to address the Parents Hospital Association, a group comprised of family members of residents at SDC.

The parents and family members in turn praised SDC staff for caring for their loved ones and expressed anger at legislators for what some perceived as their either being complicit or negligent in the passage of trailer bill language that expressly prohibits any new admissions to
SDC – and which many interpret as meaning the end of the developmental center. The family members, one after another, stood and spoke movingly of the need for the continued existence of the facility and lauded the specialized care it provides.

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