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VOL. 23, NO. 35
AUG. 28, 2009
Chamber audit held as scope expands
THISWEEK le b a u Val pons cou ges Pa –B11 B10
By Wehtahnah Tucker
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TWO SECTIONS, 44 PAGES
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WAVE WARRIOR Cory Mills, who finished third in the 12- to 13-year-old division, cruises in on the whitewater after catching a well-shaped wave. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
Young surfers rip it up at annual contest By Bianca Kaplanek
And the winners are …
SOLANA BEACH — Fifty-four local surfers 17 and younger hit the beach at Fletcher Cove early on Aug. 22 for the second annual Grom-oRama surf contest, sponsored by the Solana Beach Lifeguard Association. Boys and girls were divided by age, with girls competing in two categories: 9 to 13 and 14 to 17. Boys faced off in three divisions: 9 to 11, 12 to 13 and 14 to 17. An 8-andunder category, which was open to both boys and girls, was new to the contest this year and included some surfers who were competing
Open 8-and-under boys and girls 1. Levi Slawson 2. Koby Hughes 3. Jake Rubio 4. Noah Slawson 5. Ben Berend 6. Joey Waters 7. Kaya Hughes Girls 9-13 1. Kiernan Panish 2. Allison Aguirrie 3. Zoe Lawson 4. Erin Barr 5. Alia Newman-Boulle
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Girls 14-17 1. Shelli Swindell 2. Larissa Lambrou 3. Karly Kenyon 4. Wylie Schwartz 5. Lacie Hamrick 6. Casey Cantwell
Boys 12-13 1. Brendan Donovan 2. Blake Dresner 3. Cory Mills 4. Luke Sampiere 5. John Schade 6. Silas Smith
Boys 9-11 1. Niko Traubman 2. Toby Moore 3. Griffin Johnson 4. Will Caples 5. Jack Sampiere 6. Brian Applegate
Boys 14-17 1. Colin Richardson 2. Alec Webster 3. Mason Lovy 4. Garret Hayes 5. Johnathan Ramirez 6. Jose Carlos
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Mixed reviews for general plan consultants By Wehtahnah Tucker
ENCINITAS — City Council voted 4-0 Aug. 19 to spend approximately $1.1 million for consultants to update the city’s general plan. Councilman James Bond was absent. While several speakers were unhappy with the choice of the traffic consultant, others thought the use of any consultants was a misuse of taxpayer funds. City Council voted 3-1 to accept the staff recommendation of Austin Foust and Associates to complete the
general plan update traffic study. Councilwoman Teresa Barth said she would like to see the study done by city staff. Councilman Jerome Stocks said that a competitive bid process would be appropriate. The city request for proposals for the general plan update included the need for new policies such as sustainability, climate action plan and healthy communities, as well as existing policies including walkability in the city.
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MIG, Inc. — a Berkleybased consulting company with offices in San Diego — was chosen over nine other applicants with unanimous support from staff and others on the interview panel to serve as the main consultant on the city’s general plan update process. Planning Department Director Patrick Murphy said the two-year process was a major undertaking. He said public outreach was the most important component. “It needs to be their (residents’)
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general plan,” he said. Daniel Iacofano, a founding principal of MIG, addressed the council. He stressed the importance of public participation in the general plan update process. He noted that through his research he found the city was “clearly a quality community.” “We’re not here to impose our agenda on the community,” Iacofano said. “We’ll be looking at traffic
Local water rates set to rise soon By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — Oceanside held a workshop Aug. 20 to get the word out to residents that monthly wastewater rates may jump by as much as $14.82 and water rates may increase by $10.43 a month for a family of four. The higher rates will cover the increased cost of pass-through charges for water bought from the Metropolitan Water District, Lonnie Thibodeaux, the water utilities director, said. Notices of the increases are scheduled to be sent out to residents in October and higher rates are expected to be charged in November. The exact amounts of the increases still need to be determined. There are four options on the table for wastewater rates that propose adding
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ENCINITAS — After five months of waiting to receive the results of an audit from the city’s Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center, the City Council and city manager’s office were told that the document was not yet available. In fact, according to an e-mail sent to the board of directors and at least one reporter by new chamber CEO Marshall Weinreb, the review will be expanded. “After very carefully reviewing the documents, I feel that this review will not satisfy the city nor does it satisfy me,” Weinreb said in the e-mail. “We were too