Save Seaside Fireworks!!

Let Your Voice Be HeardPlease join us on

Date: Thursday, August 4, 2022
Time:  5:00 PM
Location: Seaside City Hall (440 Harcourt Ave)

First and foremost, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to you for responding to our request for your support last month as the Seaside City Council was discussing whether to ban the sale and use of State Fire Marshal-Approved, Safe and Sane Fireworks, or to waste over $150,000 of taxpayer dollars to put it on the November 2022 ballot.

You, along with over 100 of your fellow Seaside neighbors, answered our plea for support by sending an automated letter to the Mayor and each of the members of the Seaside City Council lettng them know that:

  1. State-Approved Fireworks sold by the Seaside nonprofit organizations are not the problem in Seaside ....Illegal fireworks are the problem!

  2. Banning the use of State-Approved Fireworks will not lead to less illegal fireworks, it will lead to more illegal fireworks!

  3. In addition to the nonprofits losing $267,000 in revenue to fund their critical programs, banning will result in the City losing over $18,646 the nonprofits give to the City to fund the City’s illegal fireworks enforcement program.

  4. In 2020, when the City Council tried to do this, the Seaside nonprofits collected the signatures on a referendum petition from 2,446 registered Seaside voters and the City Council rescinded its ban.

  5. You wanted to keep State-Approved Fireworks in Seaside and the City Council should not waste over $150,000 of taxpayer dollars to put this issue on the ballot.

While a couple Councilmembers tried to dismiss the letters they received because they were automated and contained the same message, with the encouragement of the new City Manager and the professional opinion of the Police Chief that illegal fireworks were the problem and banning state-approved fireworks would potentially increase the amount illegal fireworks in Seaside, the City Council decided to bring the issue back at this Thursday City Council meeting where the Council will have to choose between:

The City Manager's and Police Chief’s recommendation of forming a “region-wide task force involving, but not limited to, the nearby regional cities of Pacific Grove, Monterey, Marina, Carmel and Salinas. The overall goal of the task force is to reduce fireworks-related incidents and illegal firework activity.”

OR

Put a measure on the November 2022 Seaside ballot that would prohibit the sale and use of California State Fire Marshal-Approved, Safe and Sane Fireworks in the City of Seaside and would cost over $150,000 of taxpayer dollars.

What Can You Do?

FIRST: If you support keeping State Fire Marshal-Approved Fireworks in Seaside, RESPOND NOW by filling out the form to automatically send an email to all members of the Seaside City Council, expressing your support for continuing to give our community's nonprofit organizations the ability to sell and your family the right to buy and responsibly use State-Approved, Safe and Sane Fireworks each 4th of July. You may personalize your letter of support by adding a postscript at the bottom of the email by typing it in the box below.

SECOND: Join us at City Hall for the City Council Meeting this Thursday at 5:00 PM and Let Your Voice Be Heard!

Respond Now

If you support keeping State Fire Marshall-Approved Fireworks in Seaside, fill out the form below and click submit to send a letter to all members of the Seaside County Council. (View the letter.)