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JAN. 27, 2017
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By Aaron Burgin
Continuing the kindness Students at the Village Gate Children’s Academy in Encinitas helped to spread more kindness on Thursday at the corner of Encinitas Boulevard and Coast Highway 101. For kindness week, 24 students from the school’s kindergarten to third grade classes held signs and handed out “love notes” to people passing by. Teachers Jennifer Blackman and Beth Hagen organized the gathering. Photo by Tony Cagala
City working to remove tracks from bluffs sooner than planned By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — With North County Transit District enforcing railroad trespassing laws and Mother Nature and sea level rise taking a toll the coastline, the Del Mar City Council is working to remove the railroad tracks from its bluffs sooner than 2050, the San Diego Association of Governments’ current target date for the project. Council members unanimously agreed at the Jan. 14 meeting to move forward with a plan, authored by Mayor Terry Sinnott and Councilman Dwight Worden, which also seeks to Del Mar City Council members are no longer sticking to a plan to remove the train tracks from the deteriorating bluffs in 2050. They recently agreed to start collecting information now to help move the project forward
TURN TO TRACKS ON 15 sooner. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
REGION — The San Dieguito Union High School District has a new superintendent, but the board vote was far from unanimous. The board voted 3-2 to remove the interim tag from Eric Dill’s title. Dill, the associate superintendent of business services, had been serving as acting superintendent since July 1, 2016, when former superintendent Rick Schmitt left to take the top job at the San Ramon Valley Unified School District in Northern California. John Salazar and Maureen “Mo” Muir voted against his hiring, criticizing the decision in a joint letter sent to The Coast News and other media outlets. “We vote no because we believe approval of him is premature,” Salazar and Muir wrote. “We were given the choice of one candidate for the most important job in our district. The other three trustee’s refused to consider anyone else.” The school board conducted an initial search for a permanent replacement last fall, but put the search on hold after an unsuccessful first round of interviews. According to a previous news release, Dill did not apply for the permanent position during the first round, but district officials met with him in closed session shortly before winter break and ultimately decided to offer him the job. The minority board members said that search
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Eric Dill is named superintendent of the San Dieguito Union High School District after the school board voted 3-2 to remove the interim tag from his title. Courtesy photo
firms told them that better candidates would emerge at the beginning of the calendar year. “We believe we have a responsibility to our students, parents, faculty, and taxpayers to at least explore, during this optimal time, what other candidates may be available,” their letter read. “While Mr. Dill may be the best candidate, we don’t know that he is the best one for this district because he is the only person that was considered.” Salazar and Muir were also critical of Dill’s advocacy for lease-leaseback arrangements — several of which were recently rescinded at the same board meeting where Dill’s contract was approved — as well as for the 12.5 perTURN TO DILL ON 15
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