Friday, May 18, 2012
The County won the award for its Capital Improvement Program, which has paid $872 million in cash for millions of square feet of new infrastructure projects.
The County of San Diego made the following announcement on Thursday, May 17, 2012: The San Diego County Taxpayers Association honored the County Wednesday night with a Grand Golden Watchdog award for saving taxpayers nearly $1.5 billion. The County won the award for its Capital Improvement Program, which has paid $872 million in cash for millions of square feet of new infrastructure projects. By avoiding interest on the projects, the county will save the public about $1.46 billion over the next 30 years. At the same time, the projects will create an estimated 18,000 new jobs through 2016. “Paying in cash just makes sense and reflects the County’s business-like approach,” said County Chief Administrative Officer Walt Ekard, who accepted the…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Witness to 2010 SUV plunge off Carlsbad cliff sought $256,000 from Chargers great in April.
Updated at 9 a.m. May 18, 2012 Six days before killing himself, Junior Seau was being represented in a downtown San Diego courtroom by an attorney fending off a personal-injury lawsuit. According to court documents, Murray Lea sought $256,000 from Seau as compensatory damages in connection with Seau’s 2010 SUV plunge off a Carlsbad cliff. Lea says he was close enough to the car he could have grabbed the door handle, but injured himself jumping away. He listed a San Marcos address in the lawsuit, but now says he is homeless—living out of a van on Coast Highway and fearing for his life as a result of publicity about the case. “I’m suing a dead legend for a quarter-million dollars,” Lea noted Thursday afternoon from his car in Carlsbad. But …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
La Mesa-Spring Valley District Superintendent Brian Marshall says the district faces a $3M reduction in its budget following the release of Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget this week.
Gov. Jerry Brown's revised state budget proposal released Monday increases the stakes of a public vote in November to raise taxes, a San Diego Unified School District official said. Local school officials have been waiting for the "May revise" to judge the impact of lower-than-expected state revenues on funding for education. "Nothing has improved for K-12 education in the May revise, which is what we expected," said Bernie Rhinerson, the SDUSD chief of staff. Based on the governor's original budget proposal in January, the state's second-largest school district expected to lose around $40 million if the tax increases fail at the ballot box, Rhinerson said. He said the new numbers still need to be crunched, but the revision could raise the…
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Monday, May 14, 2012
May 21 is deadline in San Diego County for registering to vote in the upcoming election.
San Diego County residents wanting to vote in the June 5 primary must register by May 21. If you’re not sure if you are registered, you can check your status online. This year’s ballot will feature open primaries, in which the top two vote-getters in state or federal races advance to the November election—no matter what party they represent. Citizens can register on the County of San Diego Registrar of Voters website or at one of the following locations: For more information, visit the Registrar of Voters website.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
City was 37.8 percent Democrat, 33.9 percent Republican and 22.4 percent unaffiliated on April 30.
La Mesa has a slightly higher percentage of Democratic voters than Republicans, according to voter registration data released this week. Affirming the city’s bipartisan status ahead of the June 5 primary election, the county Registrar of Voters Office said Democrats outnumbered the GOP here 11,520 to 10,332 as of April 30. With 30,7458 registered voters, La Mesa has 6,841 declining to identify themselves by any party. The next-biggest affiliation in La Mesa is the American Independent Party, with 1,053 members, say the figures (attached). Then come the Libertarian Party (245) and the Green Party (200). By percentage, the city is 37.8 percent Democrat, 33.9 percent Republican and 22.4 percent not listing a preference. In 2010, the U.S. …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The climate protection measures took place in 12 different categories, including global warming emissions, fuel and energy efficiency, green building, and more.
It was a relatively uneventful – and given the nature of the last few meetings – a relatively non-contentious gathering of the La Mesa City Council on Tuesday, as the council heard an updated report on the city's climate protection initiatives from city staff. Scott Munzenmaier, an administrative analyst for the city, walked the council and attendees through a 20-minute presentation detailing the city's efforts at protecting the environment in each of 12 different categories: global warming emissions related to city operations, land use policies, transportation, clean energy, energy efficiency, appliance efficiency, green building designs, fleet fuel efficiency, wastewater treatment, public education, urban forestry and recycling. The …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Employment will increase by 271 positions despite the decrease in dollars, according to a staff report.
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Tuesday, May 8
San Diego County will spend nearly 2 percent less in the fiscal year starting July 1, according to a budget presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday by the county's chief administrative officer. Walter Ekard presented the $4.77 billion spending plan to the board, which will begin its budget deliberations June 11. The spending plan represents a 1.9 percent reduction in spending compared to this year's budget of about $4.86 billion, Ekard said. Supervisor Dianne Jacob was upbeat. "This is a smaller budget this year than we've ever had," she said, "and we're doing more with less, and it's because of the creativeness and the innovation and the charge that everyone has at every level to try to do the best that we can to try to provide the …
How do you know what City Council will discuss this week? Check May 8 agenda summary.
Below is a summary of what is due to occur at this week's Council meeting. The La Mesa City Council will hear a staff report on the city's climate protection actions. The report will include a synopsis of the a resolution passed in 2007 endorsing the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. Staff will list any and all new updates to the agreement from the previous year, including what has been done in the areas of global warming emissions related to city operations, land use policies, transportation, clean energy, energy efficiency, appliance efficiency, green building designs, fleet fuel efficiency, wastewater treatment, public education, and recycling. In other items: Some La Mesa streets will be getting repaved, as the council will …
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Deadline for applying for an absentee ballot is 5 p.m. May 29, according to registrar’s office.
La Mesa residents who have registered as mail-in voters will soon receive their ballots for the June 5 primary election. According to the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, an estimated 724,000 vote-by-mail ballots are being distributed in the county. Deadline for applying for a mail ballot—also called an absentee ballot—is 5 p.m. May 29. San Diego residents could elect a new mayor in June if one of the four major candidates—Councilman Carl DeMaio, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Rep. Bob Filner—receives more than 50 percent of the votes. Voters also will have the opportunity to decide two city propositions: Proposition A limits the number of Project Labor Agreements while Proposition B would replace …
The funds will come from the state government.
The San Diego County Office of Education will receive $22,500 in state funds to enforce tobacco-free school policies and collect data on the prevalence of tobacco use and other behaviors that put students' health at risk. More than $410,000 in Tobacco Use Prevention Education dollars from the state Department of Education went to 30 districts across California. The winners in TUPE competitive bidding demonstrated the greatest tobacco-use prevention efforts, and proposed programs that will likely be effective, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. "Schools can help our kids learn to avoid dangerous behaviors -- including tobacco use—early," Torlakson said. TUPE is a three-year, $16.5 million competitive state grant…
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