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Cardiff school bond faces little opposition Encinitas taps Del Mar for assistant city manager By Aaron Burgin
By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Encinitas recently announced the hiring of Del Mar’s assistant city manager for the same position in Encinitas. Mark Delin, who worked for Del Mar for eight years, was recently hired to essentially be Encinitas City Manager Karen Brust’s second in command. Delin and Brust are familiar with one another, as Delin served under Brust during her stint as Del Mar’s city manager from 2007 to 2011. “Mark’s passion for the environment coupled with his extensive senior management experience and advanced education in environmental sciences will further the City’s achievement of its environmental initiatives,” Brust said. “At the same time, his customer service ethic and willingness to serve and listen to the community will support the needs of all five communities within Encinitas and be an asset for the organization.” The city had been searching for an assistant city manager since February, when the council approved Brust’s management plan that called for the city to reclassify a vacant deputy city manager
position to essentially a second-in-command role. At the time, Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer in her newsletter to her supporters said she “strongly supported filling this position, something I wish previous City Manager (Gus) Vina had done.” “The Assistant CM position will be able to supervise the administrative staff and reduce the number of direct reports to the CM,” Shaffer wrote. “S/he can also bring expertise that complements the City Manager’s strengths.” In Del Mar, Delin managed public safety, finance, water and sewer rates, human resources, risk management, solid waste and recycling, real estate and leases and contracts. Before Del Mar, Delin was a senior manager in the San Diego County Water Authority’s finance department. He also served in positions in Ventura County and with the State of Missouri. He has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s degree in plant and soil science from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a master’s of Business Administration from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Tri-City board loses first appeal of medical office building lawsuit By Aaron Burgin
OCEANSIDE — The Tri-City Healthcare District lost a bid to have a $19.8 million jury verdict against it lowered to $6 million in its eminent domain lawsuit against a former partner in the development of a 57,000-square-foot medical office building. Superior Court judge Earl Maas III, who presided over the jury trial, also denied a motion by Tri-City to retry the case. The jury in July awarded Carlsbad-based Medical Acquisition Co. (MAC) $19,763,700 against Tri-City Healthcare District for eminent domain, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and also denied the district’s counter claim of conflict of interest by the company. The office building has sat vacant for nearly two years, the result of an estranged partnership between the healthcare district and MAC, a vestige of the tenure of former TriCity CEO Larry Anderson that has resulted in the lawsuits between the parties. Tri-City sought to void the contract it had with MAC in a 149-page lawsuit that alleged the hospital’s former CEO Larry Anderson and board president RoseMarie Reno had illegal conflicts of interest with MAC. MAC in turn countersued Tri-City for interference with its development rights, arguing that the hospital district illegally blocked them from completing the project. The jury found for MAC on all issues after a monthlong trial, awarding MAC
$2,933,700 on its interference claim, and valued the building taken by TriCity in eminent domain at $16,830,000, which was the amount that MAC claimed in the lawsuit. Maas this week also granted MAC’s motion requiring Tri-City to make an immediate deposit of $12.1 million toward the value of the building. Tri-City had previously deposited $4.7 million. The hospital and MAC in 2011 entered into a complex development agreement that called for MAC to lease district land for 50 years and build a 60,000-square-foot complex. The hospital would then lease almost half the space for $75,000 a month and prepay $7.5 million in up-front rent. MAC would use the rest of the space to house doctors from a side company it set up for spinal surgeries in Tri-City’s operation rooms, as well as other services. The deal fell through in 2012 and the building, which was partially completed, has sat vacant since. The hospital ousted Anderson in 2013 and seized the building in July 2014 through its eminent domain authority. Officials see the medical office building as an important piece of its partnership agreement with UC San Diego Health. The university plans to locate specialists in the building, a move that would increase the Tri-City’s service offerings. “The legal issues are still ongoing so we cannot comment on them,” TriCity Spokesman David Bennett said.
ENCINITAS — In a time where school boards across the country have struggled to get buy in from their communities to tax themselves to pay for needed improvements, the Cardiff School District could be a unique contrast. On Nov. 8, voters in the school district will decide the fate of Measure GG, a $22 million bond measure that will pay for several critical facilities improvements and green infrastructure initiatives at the district’s two campuses, Cardiff and Ada Harris elementary schools. In order to pass, 55 percent of the district voters must approve the measure. And by all accounts, the measure is comfortably headed toward passage. District polls show the vast majority of the community is in favor of the bond measure, which has also received the stamp of approval from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. Officials with the 720-student district said the overwhelming community support was cultivated over two years of outreach and input from parents and residents within the district and consulting with experts on best practices on bonds. “We have built up a great deal of trust over the years, and we have a super well run and well regarded school district,” said Mark Whitehouse, the school board’s president, said Wednesday. “It is far easier to go to the community and ask for facilities improve-
ments than if your district has controversy.” A large part of Measure GG will go toward rebuilding classrooms and replace buildings at Cardiff Elemen-
We have built up a great deal of trust over the years, and we have a super well run and well regarded district.” Mark Whitehouse President, Cardiff School District Board
tary that are 55 to 65 years old, including the school’s multi-purpose room, which is used by a number of community organizations, including the city, according to district documents. The plan also calls for replacing leaky roofs, renovating or replacing deteriorating plumbing and sewer systems and upgrading the school’s electrical system, which the district says are inadequate. The project also includes health, safety and security improvements as well
as energy-efficiency solar, sustainable enhancements, as well as the replacement of inefficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. If approved, property owners would be assessed e $25.75 per $100,000 of assessed valuation annually for 30 years. Property owners will pay $47 million over the life of the bond. Voters previously approved a similar bond measure in 2000, which allowed the district to rebuild Ada Harris Elementary and pay for some modernization efforts at Cardiff Elementary. District superintendent Jill Vinson said the district began planning for the bond measure about two years ago, when the district reached out to the county’s Office of Education to perform a facilities assessment, which essentially would identify the
district’s future facilities and maintenance needs and the cost for both. The assessment revealed what Vinson said that school district officials already knew anecdotally: many of the portable buildings at Cardiff Elementary had outlived their useful life. “What we realized were that there were some pressing needs at Cardiff school, and the needs far exceeded the school district’s ability to tackle them,” Vinson said. With this information in hand, the district engaged the district’s parent community through a series of workshops and focus groups and conducted polls along the way. Through these meetings and parent feedback, the district crafted the bond measure, which district officials TURN TO BOND ON A10
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