“I believe that citizens in Pasadena no matter what your background is should be able to vote about what’s happening in Pasadena,”

— Commission Chair Brandon Lamar

(From the September 8, 2021 Pasadena Now article, “City Commission Supports Call to Allow Non-Citizen Parents of PUSD Children to Vote in School Board Elections”)

Members of Pasadena’s Human Relations Commission expressed support for the call by Pasadenans Empowering Parent Participation in Education Governance (PEPPEG) for the City Council to amend Pasadena City’s Charter to allow all non-citizen parents of Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) students to vote in school board elections.

In its meeting on Tuesday, members of the commission decided to agendize in the action items for its next meeting the call of the PEPPEG for the commission to urge the City Council to craft a measure for the implementation of the proposed new policy.

The commission reached a consensus after commissioners publicly voiced their approval to the proposal of the PEPPEG.

Read the entire article here.