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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 r...

Print A record 36 people have applied to be appointed to the Oceanside City Council seat left vacant when former Councilwoman Esther Sanchez was elected mayor Nov. 3. The City Council has until Feb. 10 to appoint somebody or it must designate a special citywide election, though an election appears unlikely. The earliest the vacancy could go on a ballot is November, at an estimated cost of $250,000 to taxpayers, and the winner would have less than a year in office. Seldom does an open council seat attract so many applicants, though until recently the process was less formal. About a year ago, ...

Print Oceanside launched a search this week for candidates for an appointment to a vacant City Council seat by February, in hopes of avoiding a special election that’s almost a year away and could cost $250,000 or more. “My concern has nothing to do with the price tag,” said Councilman Christopher Rodriguez. “My concern is sitting here for a year without a fully functioning legislative body making decisions.” The open seat is the result of the election of Esther Sanchez as mayor. That leaves the District 1 council seat she was elected to in 2018 open for the remainder of the four-ye...

Print Oceanside celebrated one of the biggest election turnouts in the city’s history by swearing in a mayor and two council members, declaring the passage of two ballot measures and the defeat of a third at a special meeting Tuesday. Mayor Esther Sanchez, a City Council member for 20 years, is the city’s first female mayor and first Latina mayor. She smiled broadly as she stood in the Oceanside council chambers and repeated the oath of office administered by Rep. Mike Levin, a Democrat from San Juan Capistrano, who participated through a Zoom meeting from his office in Washington, D.C.