The Coast News, February 28, 2020

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Community welcomes new city manager

SAN Last coronavirus MARCOS patient-NEWS discharged from UCSD Health

By Bethany Nash

By City News Service

DEL MAR — The Del Mar community gathered on Feb. 20 at the Powerhouse Community Center for a “meet and greet” reception with their new city manager. Christa “CJ” Johnson, who began work the previous week, has a civil service background of 22 years. She previously worked as the assistant city manager in Laguna Beach, for the city and county of Alameda and for Windsor, a town located in Sonoma County. Christa Johnson said that meeting the community at the reception got her excited to listen to everything the citizens are passionate about. “It is my sixth day and I have a lot to learn,” Christa Johnson said. “It is a lot easier to learn things face to face and what everyone is passionate about.” During her first day on the job, Christa Johnson went around to everyone in the office, introduced herself and learned everyone’s names according to Kseniia Izgarskaia, the assistant management analyst for Del Mar. Dozens of citizens filled the community room, lining up to make their introductions. Assistant City Manager Kristen Crane has known Christa Johnson for over 20 years, having previously worked with her in Northern California. Crane said that the reception was a fantastic way for the community to start a relationship with the new city manTURN TO CITY MANAGER ON A9

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and police cannot enforce anti-vagrancy or quality of life laws, according to the Idaho Statesman. Mayor Matt Hall declined comment on the proposal for several reasons including potential litigation along with the issue having not come before the council. Encinitas’ controversial homeless parking lot, known as the Safe Parking

REGION — The second patient in San Diego County confirmed to have contracted the novelTHE coronavirus was discharged from VISTA UC San Diego Health's care NEWS on Feb. 24. Another person who had been diagnosed with the respiratory illness was discharged from UC San Diego Health Feb. 19 after multiple tests came back with negative results and the person was cleared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. RANCHO “The last few weeks have presented numerous SFNEWS challenges,” said Patty Maysent, CEO of UC San Diego Health. “Our skills, strengths and stamina have been tested, and I am proud to say we met the challenges across the board, throughout our health care system and across our broader communities.” Maysent said staff collaborated daily with San Diego County Public Health Services and the CDC. “In all ways, at all times, their unified mission was — and remains — to keep patients and the public-at-large informed, protected and safe. It is not possible to express the depth of my gratitude for their efforts, professionalism and sacrifice,” Maysent said. After two weeks under quarantine for novel coronavirus, 63 people were released Feb. 20 from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. They were among 65 passengers who were flown into San Diego Feb.

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FEDERAL FUNDS TO ADDRESS BLUFF DANGER Rep. Mike Levin speaks during a news conference at Grandview Beach in Encinitas on Feb. 21 to discuss $400,000 in newly allocated federal funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intended to help prevent bluff collapses like the one that killed three people at the popular Leucadia surf beach in August of last year. Behind Levin are Dr. Pat Davis, who lost his wife, youngest daughter and sister-in-law in the bluff collapse, along with Solana Beach Mayor Jewel Edson, right, and Encinitas Deputy Mayor Kellie Hinze, back left. Courtesy photo

Councilwoman urges city to declare shelter crisis By Steve Puterski

CARLSBAD — Councilwoman Cori Schumacher is calling for the council to declare a homelessness crisis. She explained her position Feb. 21 discussing what nuances of the issue and potential locations for placing the homeless in the city. Schumacher also said homelessness may be the most pressing issue facing the city as the most recent Point-In-Time-Count re-

vealed 161 homeless. She also met with Jewish Family Services and San Diego-based Dreams for Change last year to discuss the potential for a public lot to be used as an area to “house” homeless people living in their cars, like the one Encinitas City Council recently approved. “We saw some crisis events in our community and also had the 2018 Boise, Idaho decision,” Schumacher said. “That

really tied our law enforcement’s hands. We can’t pull people off the street and can’t move them from their cars or parks unless we have services provided for them.” Schumacher said pointed to the Martin vs. Boise case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the lack of shelter beds in the city. The Boise case ruled unless there are enough shelter beds in a municipality, officials

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