Soccer club organizes drive for food bank
City SC, a soccer club with 3,900 competitive players throughout Carlsbad, recently organized a club-wide food drive before Thanksgiving to benefit the San Diego Food Bank. In just two days, the nonprofit club was able to collect just over 1,000 pounds of nonperishable food items for donation. The food drive was organized by the club’s Girls Academy Advisory Panel, which has community outreach as one of its goals. The panel consists of one representative from each of six girls teams, along with two club representatives from the under-13 division and the under-18/19 division. Visit ourcitysc.com.
Oceanside
Oceanside elementary schools will close their campuses starting Monday, and return to virtual learning, the Oceanside Unified School District board voted Thursday.
The district also announced that it will delay plans for reopening secondary schools in person until San Diego County returns to the red tier of COVID-19 restrictions.
“These decisions were made to provide consistency moving forward, and as a precautionary measure in an effort to support our region as we work together to slow the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases,” the district stated in a message Thursday.
The county is currently in the most restrictive purple tier, which indicates widespread transmission of the virus, and is also under state-mandated closure orders aimed at preserving hospital capacity.
NOTE:
City councils and school boards have closed their meeting spaces to the public to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Public participation is possible by phone links to the meetings, livestreaming meetings and/or emailing comments. Visit each agency’s website for details, usually found under “Meetings” or “Agendas.”
CITY COUNCILS
CARLSBAD
The Carlsbad City Council will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday for final approval of its hotel employee recall rights ordinance. Reports will be presented on the city’s 2019-20 annual financial audit results and on upcoming municipal service reviews by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of the city of Carlsbad and Carlsbad Municipal Water District.
Morning Report: Real Estate Deals Dogged Faulconer’s Tenure
101 Ash St. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
In the race to replace Mayor Kevin Faulconer, his disastrous handling of the city’s acquisition of a downtown high rise, which eventually had to be evacuated due to asbestos violations, nearly rose above all the other issues facing city residents as a campaign issue.
But the story of 101 Ash St. wasn’t the only troubled real estate transaction in the mayor’s tenure. He also fumbled the acquisition of an industrial property in Kearny Mesa to repair city fire trucks, and got wrapped in controversy over purchasing an indoor skydiving facility to turn it into a homeless services hub. In our ongoing look at Faulconer’s legacy as mayor, Lisa Halverstadt zeroed in on his handling of city real estate deals.