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San Diego city officials handed out almost $400,000 in cash awards to employees last year as part of a retention and recognition program designed to promote morale and excellence across the workforce.
According to the city’s finance department, 2,075 employees received a total of $394,765 in rewards throughout the 2020 calendar year.
More than 40 percent of the money went to San Diego Police Department employees as part of a 2018 effort aimed at attracting and keeping officers on the force. In total, just over $168,000 was given to 72 officers, or about 3 percent of the city workers who received a benefit.
City spokeswoman Nicole Darling said the payments were not actual bonuses because they are not added to an employee’s salary and they are not recurring.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk s public statements about the state of his automaker s Autopilot assistive driving technology overestimate the system s capabilities, according to documents released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Legal non-profit PlainSite obtained the DMV documents via the California Public Records Act and they include a summary, written by Miguel Acosta, chief of the DMV s Autonomous Vehicles Branch, of a March 9, 2021 meeting between DMV officials and Tesla personnel.
Acosta wrote that DMV asked CJ [CJ Moore, director of Autopilot software at Tesla] to address, from an engineering perspective, Elon’s messaging about L5 capability by the end of the year.
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Student Rosario Cardenas was on board for the assignment right away. She grew up in a less polluted part of the Inland Empire, and once she got to college she realized that many of her classmates suffered a lot more pollution than she did, and she wanted to understand why. They shouldn t have to endure polluted air because they live next to warehouses, and I didn t think this would still be a problem in 2021, especially not in California, Cardenas said.
They decided they would map warehouses and see how they overlapped with social justice issues, like poverty, pollution, and health.
CalPERS likes to think that all that matters is if it can control perceptions in Sacramento. If Dan Walters’ latest column is any indication, CalPERS is losing that battle.
For those of you outside California, Walters has been the most influential commentator in Sacramento for decades. His view skew somewhat conservative, but he regularly calls out politicians on both sides of the aisle.
His latest object of disfavor is the CalPERS-sponsored bill AB 386, which he lambasted forcefully in his latest column, Pending Bill Opens Door to CalPERS Corruption. Walters criticizes the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which just passed the bill with no discussion at all.