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Riding Club’s lease upped
THISWEEK
YEE-HAW
Tasked with catching rowdy horses, members of the Rancho Santa Fe Patrol brush up on their B4 wrangling skills
By Patty McCormac
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DEC. 3, 2010
KICKIN’ IT
The San Diego Surf Soccer Club’s Thanksgiving Tournament took place at the Polo Fields from Nov. 26 to Nov. 28. Above, Brittany Doan of the San Diego Surf Soccer Club battles a Livermore defender for the ball. See more photos on Page A14. Photo by Daniel Knighton
Ranch water district approves rate increase By Patty McCormac
RANCHO SANTA FE — The Nov. 18 water rate increase approved by the board of the Santa Fe Irrigation District was expected, said General Manager Michael Bardin. “At our October meeting we held a public hearing just on that subject,” he said. “There were about 50 people and 13 public comments,” he said. After that meeting, the
board members took into consideration the public comments, studied the staff reports and voted in favor 3-2 to raise the rates. Voting for the raise were board President Michael Hogan, Vice President Ken Dunford and Director Bud Irvin.Voting against the raise were directors John Ingalls and Auggie Daddi. The “pass through,” component of the issue was not passed. “They did not take
action on that,” Bardin said. The board believes the raise is necessary because the cost of water continues to rise. “About 70 percent of our budget in the next three years is just to buy water,” he said. The increase will be 12 percent in January and 12 percent for the next two years. The proposal to “pass through,” additional costs the water authority imposes
was not OK’d. “The rate proposal approved by the board represents responsible public policy,” he said. “It is the financial plan that is necessary to provide safe reliable water and fire flow and implement the maintenance and replacing of infrastructure. “It is a well-run and maintained water system and we want to keep it that way. We don’t want to do crisis management of a public water system.”
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RANCHO SANTA FE — The Rancho Santa Fe Association voted unanimously to extend the ground lease to the Rancho Santa Fe Riding Club for 10 years to Sept. 1, 2022, with an option to extend an additional 10 years to September 2032. “We have been trying to do improvements and put some long-range planning in place to improve the property. We will need a loan or some other financing to do that,” said Sharon Engel who represented the riding club at the Association’s Nov. 18 meeting. The current lease expires in September 2012, but the riding club wishes the extension so they can demonstrate stability to garner financing to proceed on their remodel and upgrading plans. “We need to show the county (and potential lenders) that we will use the property for the next 10 years,” she said. Association Manager Peter Smith told the Association that the riding club has leased the grounds from the Association for many years. “Over the last 55 years, we have had a series of leases with them,” Smith said. He said the relationship over the years has been stellar. “Anything we asked them to do, they have done,” he said. The riding club agreed to pay all costs associated with the lease extension including $1,200 for member notification and if it came to a community meeting and vote, $3,000 for that. The riding club was established in 1946 when a group of friends and neighbors came together to build it. In her 1985 book “Echoes of Rancho Santa Fe,” Connie Clotfelter wrote John TURN TO LEASE ON A19
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