Morning Report: Ex-City COO Pencils Settlement

The city’s former top bureaucrat has reached a tentative settlement with the city that would hand him more cash than the severance he sought when Mayor Todd Gloria showed him the door earlier this year. Ex-COO Eric Dargan’s attorney told our Lisa Halverstadt the former city official has signed a proposed $146,000 settlement that follows…

Morning Report: Oceanside, Carlsbad See Progress on Homeless Encampment 

In 2021, city leaders in Oceanside and Carlsbad received an $11.4 million state grant to move all of the homeless people living along a four-mile stretch of State Route 78 into housing. The project got off to a slow start, but four years later, it’s showing promise. Outreach workers from four homeless service providers canvassing…

Morning Report: San Diego Unified Lowers the Bar

For more than a decade, San Diego Unified School District leaders took pride in the more rigorous high school graduation standards they implemented in 2011. They could not avoid that too many graduates were leaving high school without having taken the minimum classes to get into college. They’ve had enough of that rigor. Earlier this…

Morning Report: Ahead of Possible Shelter Closure, Many Shelters Halt Intakes

The city has stopped welcoming new clients at many of its homeless shelters and both of its safe sleeping sites to prepare for the possible closure of a Midway shelter. Following Mayor Todd Gloria’s decision last week not to include nearly $5 million for the city and county-backed shelter in his final budget proposal, Housing…

Morning Report: Mayor Distances Himself From His Own Real Estate Company

Chula Vista Mayor John McCann says he is divesting himself from a real estate company he co-owns with his wife after Voice of San Diego asked about the firm’s apparent preparations to sell real estate in a $1 billion bayfront luxury condominium project McCann helped to promote as mayor. Coronado Shores Co., the real estate…

Morning Report: Council Prez Fights La Jolla Secession But Remains Neutral

When the San Diego City Council decided to sue the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, Councilmembers Stephen Whitburn and Marni von Wilpert did not vote. They are both on LAFCO’s board (Whitburn is chair and von Wilpert is an alternate). Councilmember Raul Campillo was not present.  The rest of the members of…

Morning Report: Homeless Census Shows Year-Over-Year Drop

Since the pandemic, the region’s annual homeless census numbers have been surging. But the Regional Task Force on Homelessness reported a more positive trend following this January’s census: a 7 percent year-over-year drop in both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness countywide. Our Lisa Halverstadt broke down the numbers, including an overall 13.5 percent decrease in the…

Morning Report: Three City Things to Watch

This week, on the podcast, it was just Scott Lewis and Bella Ross but they got into the latest updates on the bleak city of San Diego budget.  (Podcast fans: There are some pics from the live podcast on our events page.) The city of San Diego has a lot of unresolved questions right now.…

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