BAY AREA HIP HOP ARTIST, ACTIVIST, HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE ON IMPORTANT CHILD SAFETY ISSUE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) September 18, 2009 -- BAY AREA HIP HOP ARTIST, ACTIVIST
AND CONCERNED MOM HOLDS PRESS
CONFERENCE ON CRUCIAL CHILD SAFETY
ISSUE AT CORVALLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IN SAN LEANDRO TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 22 at 8:15 A.M.

The San Leandro Resident Invites Mayor Tony Santos,
School Board Members And A Former Crossing Guard
To Event Protesting City Budget Cuts
That Would Eliminate School Crossing Guards

A dedicated political activist and devoted mother as well as one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic emerging hip hop artists, Mo Wiley will be holding an emergency press conference in her hometown of San Leandro, California to protest city budget cuts that would eliminate school crossing guards.
The event is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, September 22 at 8:15 a.m. in a crosswalk in front of Corvallis Elementary School, where her 10 year old child attends school. Invited guests include San Leandro mayor Tony Santos, members of the San Lorenzo School District Board, and Juan Contreras, a 19-year San Leandro crossing guard who will offer his testimony on the importance of crossing guards and the role they play in keeping the community’s children safe. Wiley will be speaking on behalf of the local PTA.

The City of San Leandro recently announced that they were cutting their budget for elementary school crossing guards in the city’s two school districts, the San Leandro Unified School District and the San Lorenzo Unified School District. While this program has long been run by the San Leandro Police Department, the city is trying to shift the responsibility for child safety onto the already cash-strapped school districts.
Wiley and her fellow concerned citizens by attending important City Council Members, have been able to get the city to reconsider this crucial public safety decision, and maybe we should consider opening up the CIP improvements, possibly by special election, to the citizens of
San Leandro. They are urging the city not to let the safety of the community’s children to rest entirely on the school districts. Residents can sign an online petition at www.mowiley.com.

“The city manager said on September 17 in a city meeting that he has an emergency public safety fund, and they want the city to use it and create an Emergency Public Safety Fund for these crossing guards until they can come up with a workable solution with both districts. Ultimately, we want the city to shoulder half the costs and responsibility, because we believe the districts should be in the business of educating our children, not public safety. It’s crucial that they put an interim program in place. Kids can get hit while waiting for these entities to come to an agreement!”
Wiley, a onetime EMT tech in the Austin, Texas Children’s Hospital pediatric ICU, is driven by the memory of a child who came into the emergency room dead on arrival from being hit by a car in a crosswalk WITH a crossing guard. “The U.S. Department of Transportation says that thousands of children between the

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