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Volume 20, Issue 28
Fallbrook Summer Nights aim for family fun
Each county supervisor has an annual $2 million Neighborhood Reinvestment Program budget, and the final $664,081 of Supervisor Bill Horn’s 2015-16 budget was appropriated June 28. The county supervisors recommend the allocation of their Neighborhood Reinvestment Program funds, although those allocations must be approved by a majority of the board. The supervisors voted 5-0 to approve the District 5 grants which include $20,000 to Devil
see FUNDS, page A-8
Several Greater Fallbrook groups allocated TOT funding Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
The June 28 passage of the County of San Diego’s 2016-17 budget included the allocation of Community Enhancement funds from the County of San Diego’s Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) revenue, and several Greater Fallbrook organizations will receive funding from the Community Enhancement program.
see TOT, page A-8
Thomas Reynoso tries his skill at a game hosted by ATA Success Martial Arts during the first Fallbrook Summer Nights event, July 8. Lots of family activities were included along with the theme Bikes, Brews & BBQ. For more photos, see page B-1.
Fallbrook, Temecula connect on specialized senior services
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Bebee, Kennedy elected to LAFCO’s Special Districts Advisory Committee Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
Temecula as the city continues to mature, staff said in a June 14 report to the council. Seniors represented less than 10 percent of the community’s population when Temecula coalesced into a city in December 1989. Seniors now make up 25 percent of the city’s population, according to the report. The connection will now put a new service within easy reach of Temecula-area seniors. The only
San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) has a Special Districts Advisory Committee which makes recommendations for the LAFCO board to consider and consists of 16 members in the absence of vacancies. This year, the county’s independent (voter-elected) special districts selected board members for eight of those seats. Four members were re-elected and the four new members include Fallbrook Public Utility District assistant general manager Jack Bebee and Rainbow Municipal Utility District general manager Tom Kennedy. “I just look forward to working with other members of that committee,” said Bebee. “It’s an honor to be elected by my peers, and I think it’s important for Rainbow to have a seat at the table at LAFCO,” said Kennedy. The Special Districts Advisory Committee members may be either board members or staff of an independent special district. Special districts include water districts, sanitation or wastewater districts, fire protection districts, hospital districts, cemetery districts, community services districts, and parks and recreation districts. “ I t ’s i m p o r t a n t t o h a v e representation on that, and the board nominated me for that position,” Bebee said. Kennedy experienced the LAFCO Special Districts Advisory Committee in December 2014 and February 2015 when the committee made recommendations on various issues involved in the proposed
see SERVICES, page A-8
see LAFCO, page A-10
Shane Gibson photo Foundation for Senior Care van driver Judy Rico, right, helps Dennis DeWyn out of the passenger seat of the foundation’s “care van”. The Foundation for Senior Care is now offering transportation for seniors from Temecula to enjoy the services offered at the foundation’s Fallbrook facility. Tim O’Leary Staff Writer
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A new link – perhaps the first of its kind for the two communities – has connected Fallbrook and Temecula. This connection hinges on a key service that a Fallbrook nonprofit group provides area seniors. Temecula residents can now access this specialized adult day care service, and the Fallbrook group can mine a fast-growing market for new clients and public exposure. “We have more capacity than we are able to fill in Fallbrook,” said Rachel A. Mason, executive director of the nonprofit Foundation for Senior Care. “So we thought, why not serve Temecula with what we have in abundance?” This link, which took months to forge, gives the Foundation access to the parking lot at the Mary Phillips Senior Center in Old Town
Temecula. The lot will now serve as a hub for the Foundation to pick up and drop off its Temecula-area clients.
such deal in recent memory that the city has struck with a Fallbrook nonprofit group. The connection may aid
“We have more capacity than we are able to fill in Fallbrook, so we thought, why not serve Temecula with what we have in abundance?” – Rachel A. Mason The agreement also allows the Foundation to distribute materials at the center as a way to recruit clients for its fee-based service. In return, Temecula now has a place to refer people who are seeking day care services for a senior relative or friend who has dementia or other heath care needs. A city worker hailed the pending arrangement in an April email as “Great news!” The agreement was formally approved by Temecula City Council on June 14. It is the first