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APRIL 27, 2018
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Humane Society gets contract OK By Betsy Denhart
REGION — The Carlsbad City Council unanimously agreed to adopt a resolution on April 24 authorizing the City Manager to contract with San Diego Humane Society for animal control services, beginning July 1 of this year. The contract will run 36 months, with two one-year options to renew. The cost for Fiscal Year 2018-2019 will be $941,341, with future costs determined by the number of calls for service, animal intake, and population of new contract cities. Planning for the change began last year, when the county announced it would no longer provide animal services to six contract cities: Carlsbad, Del Mar, Encinitas, San Diego, Santee and Solana Beach. Public interest in the matter is high. The April 19 budget committee meeting room was packed, with a majority of attendees wearing bright blue Humane Society T-shirts. With speakers limited to one minute each, the comment section lasted over an hour. An additional 48 attendees — 46 in support and two opposed — signed in but chose not to speak. While the Humane Society received nearly unanimous praise, two groups voiced concerns on contract specifics. Representatives from Service Employees Union International objected to the contract’s failure to provide comparable pay TURN TO HUMANE ON A6
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Reverend Beth Johnson, pastor at Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship church, speaks to a group of protestors during a rally at U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa’s office on Tuesday morning in Vista. Photo by Mary Schrader
FINAL RALLY CRY Indivisible 49 hosts final ‘resistance rally’ in leadup to primary election
By Aaron Burgin
VISTA — Around 200 people gathered in front of the Vista office of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), like they have every Tuesday for the past 65 or so weeks. This time would be their last. Indivisible 49, the organization behind the so-called “resistance rallies,” started staging protests outside of Issa’s office in January 2017, and have held one each week since. Organizers said it is believed to be the longest running and largest resistance protest in the country.
But on April 24, organizers said it was time to focus on the June primary election, in which a crowded field of Democrat and Republican candidates are looking to fill the seat being relinquished by Issa, who announced in January that he would not seek re-election. “I have such mixed feelings about it, I am going to miss seeing these people every Tuesday morning,” said Ellen Montanari, one of the protests’ chief organizers. “Yet, it also frees up about 40 hours of my time ... and I’m going to take all of that time and putting in this last push, these last 30 days to get out the vote.” As was the case in January, when a large impromptu rally broke out to celebrate Issa’s retirement an-
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nouncement, Democratic candidates for the seat could be seen in the crowd, including Sara Jacobs, Paul Kerr and Chrissy Levin, the wife of candidate Mike Levin. Levin echoed Montanari’s sentiments about the bittersweet nature of the final rally. “It is a combination of sadness and excitement,” Levin said. “Sadness because this has been such a unifying event for everyone, and really a point for people to come together regardless of which candidate they supported, to come together to support a common mission. And excitement, though, because it means we are on to the next phase, and something exciting and hopefully a Democrat in Congress.” TURN TO RALLY ON A5
CARLSBAD — Consolidating the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority appears to be off the table. Last week, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher amended AB 3119 after numerous entities pushed back against the proposed legislation. PriRANCHO or to the amendment, AB 3119 would have consoliSFNEWS dated the SDCRAA into the Port of San Diego. However, numerous North and East county cities cried foul saying the legislation was an attempt by Gonzalez Fletcher to shift control of regional airports and land use decisions to just five cities — San Diego, Coronado, Imperial Beach, National City and El Cajon. The Voice of San Diego first reported the news. The new bill removes that prospect and instead creates a seven-member committee who would be charged with improving traffic and sustainability related to San Diego International Airport. The Carlsbad City Council voted 4-1 last week to send a letter in opposition to Gonzalez Fletcher’s original bill. Much of the council feared AB 3119
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