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OCEANSIDE The Oceanside City Council unanimously approved an emergency motel voucher program and an anti-camping ordinance Wednesday, both effective immediately and aimed at the tent communities growing along South Oceanside Boulevard and elsewhere. The two actions are designed to work together, staff members said. If the city can offer homeless individuals an available bed and support services, it can ticket them for “camping, sleeping, sitting, lying and storing personal property” in public places when they refuse to leave. Posting of the required 48-hour notices began at the camps Thursday morning, City Manager Deanna Lorson said by email. “There will be no criminal citations issued until the person has been offered shelter and/or a motel voucher,” she said. The city’s homeless outreach team, a combination of police officers and social workers, will offer an array of housing options and other services to the individuals. ....
Print The Oceanside City Council, on a 3-1 vote Wednesday, appointed real estate agent Kori Jensen to the District 1 seat left vacant Nov. 3 when longtime Councilwoman Esther Sanchez was elected mayor. Jensen will be sworn in at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Oceanside city clerk’s office and will immediately start her term, which lasts through 2022. A ceremonial swearing-in will be held at the Feb. 3 council meeting. Housing, public safety, solutions for the city’s homeless problem, and keeping sand on the city’s eroding beaches would be her top priorities as a council member, Jensen said in response to questions from council members Wednesday. ....