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HHII & ACT-II
HHII, Homeowners' Hurricane Insurance
Initiative is a part of ACT-II - All
Churches Together - a faith based, Christ-centered organization which
operates on principles of truth, respect and fairness to all races and
classes. ACT-II was developed by Baldwin County pastors in conjunction
with Ecumenical Ministries, Inc. Together we work on a wide variety of
problems in both poor and affluent communities around the county. Our
mission is to develop leaders and empower people to take democratic
action to improve the quality of life in our communities using our
dialogue to action church-based model and principles. This
particular initiative focuses on significantly lowering
premiums, reliability of insurance companies, fair payment of
claims and sustainable solutions.
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CBCC
CBCC - Coastal Baldwin Churches Community Organization - is a member organization within ACT-II
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History of HHII
Starting in 2003 Coastal Baldwin Churches Community Organization
focused on drug use among students. After working the community
improvement model for three years the Baldwin County Board of
Education established a random drug testing policy Spring 2007.
In the Fall of 2007 CBCCO listened again to the concerns of the
community and hurricane insurance surfaced as the number one
issue.
This initiative has had over 30 meetings. We have done over 300
interviews and we have hosted 2 Community Listening Meetings on
the issue of home owners’ insurance. We have had 10
research meetings –
· Senator Tripp Pitman, and Senator Ben Brooks
· Representative Steve McMillan, Randy Davis and Joe Faust
· Tim Russell, former mayor of Foley and CEO of Baldwin Mutual
and CEO of Alabama Captive, Inc., Revenue Commissioner of
Alabama
· David Parsons, the Deputy Commissioner of the Alabama
Department of Insurance
· Jim Ridling, the Commissioner of the Alabama department of
Insurance
· Davy Jones, retired agent, 5 million dollar club of State Farm
· CEO of White Haven Insurance Co.
Nov. 20 we gathered a crowd of over 500 people where Reps.
Davis, Faust and McMillan and Senator Pittman promised to
significantly reduce the cost of premiums. The Homeowners’
Hurricane Insurance Initiative has expanded into Mobile and they
have had four meetings.
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DIMENSIONS OF THE PAIN - THE IMPETUS BEHIND HHII
Read
about the community interviews and research which led up to the
formation of HHII
Updated 1/25/2011
TENTATIVE ACT-II BYLAWS
These by-laws
are a set of ideas cobbled together from comments and other documents assembled in prior ACT-II meetings.
Posted 6/30/2011
PICO Faith Based Community
Improvement Model
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Jeffrey Stout and Jarrett Kerbel: Blessed are the Organized
Posted 6/14/2011
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PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER IS
WHAT MAKES HHII WORK!
Do you
realize that you have actually moved the minds of
our legislators from thinking we are crazy and they are not able to do
anything to taking some sort of action
and even admitting that if they are not lowering the premiums, they are
not working on the problem. You all have defined the issue and you
all have defined what is an accurate way to measure success in this
issue!
Do you realize that you all have moved the Mobile Press Register to
cover this issue mo re in favor of the ordinary citizen rather than favor
the insurance companies? The article by Jeff Amy on April 7th
(2009) was
tops. He described our work well, said we had 500 at the November
(2008) meeting and over 200 at the April 6 (2009) meeting.
Do
you realize that you all were the key witnesses to a special joint
session of the Alabama House and the Senate? You all put a face to
how this issue is affecting people all along the Coastal States - it is
not just whining rich people!
Do you realize that you had very little advertising and in just 8 days
turned out 225 people to a follow up meeting! Follow up meetings
are always smaller.
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