Sabre Springs Road Work

Cox communication is installing fiber optic conduit. The contractor is working on east bound of Sabre Springs Pkwy between Evening Creek Dr North and Ted Williams Pkwy. The work on Poway Rd and Sabre Springs Pkwy north of Poway Rd is completed up to Evening Creek Dr South.

DeMaio State of the District Speech

You Are Invited…

State of the District
and Vision Speech
on Reforming City Government

July 21st - 7:00 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall Middle School
9700 Avenue of Nations
San Diego, CA 92131

Space is limited, RSVP is suggested
Phone (619) 236-6655

A small reception will be held at the conclusion of the program

Join Councilmember DeMaio as he reports to his constituents on the “State of District 5” and updates the entire city on efforts to reform city government. The program will provide San Diegans with a compelling road map for making government work again in our communities

Summer Movies

Summer is here, and with it comes a new slate of free movies in the park. Go to www.sdmoviesinthepark.com for locations and details on the movies. All are free and begin at dusk. Fun for the entire family!

Toll House Cookie Recall

The County of San Diego, Department of Environmental Health has been advised by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) of a voluntary recall of Nestlé Toll House cookie dough products. Nestlé is taking this action as a precaution after being notified that the Food and Drug Administration, together with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), are conducting an investigation into reported E. coli 0157:H7 illnesses that may be related to consumption of raw cookie dough. While the E. coli strain implicated in this investigation has not been detected in the recalled products, a number of consumers reporting illness reported consuming raw Nestlé Toll house refrigerated cookie dough.

Below is the FDA website that lists the recalled products. It is strongly advised that raw cookie dough should not be eaten. Consumers with the recalled products may return the products to their local retailer or discard them to a secure trash container.

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm167954.htm

For more information, please contact the FDA at 1-888-463-6332 or Nestlé Consumer Services at 1-800-559-5025.

Fw: Construction Advisory: Southbound I-15 Off-Ramp to Mira Mesa Blvd Closed This Weekend

Please see below message from Caltrans about I-15 ramp closure. Please contact Caltrans if you have any questions.

 

-Craig

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: "Balben, Craig" <CBalben@sdcwa.org>
To: sspgchair@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:39:59 PM
Subject: FW: Construction Advisory: Southbound I-15 Off-Ramp to Mira Mesa Blvd Closed This Weekend



-----Original Message-----
From: Antoinette Meier [mailto:Antoinette_Meier@dot.ca.gov]
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:35 PM
Subject: Construction Advisory: Southbound I-15 Off-Ramp to Mira Mesa Blvd Closed This Weekend


Dear I-15 Community Member,
Please be advised that the southbound I-15 off-ramp to Mira Mesa Boulevard
will be temporarily closed starting Friday at 9 p.m. and reopening Monday
at 5 a.m.

Motorists traveling to Mira Mesa Boulevard from southbound I-15 will be
detoured to west on Mercy Road to south on Black Mountain Road onto Mira
Mesa Boulevard. Detour signs will be posted.

This closure is necessary to complete construction and paving of the new
southbound off -ramp as part of the ongoing I-15 Express Lanes Project.
Construction will take place over the weekend in order to minimize impacts
to the weekday commute.

Please see the attached construction advisory for more information. If you
have any question, please don't hesitate to contact me at 858-668-3368.

Sincerely,
Antoinette Meier
Public Information Officer
I-15 Express Lanes Project
858-668-3368 office
858-688-1445 mobile

For construction updates, questions and road closure information, log-on to
www.KeepSanDiegoMoving.com or call the Interstate 15 Project Information
Hotline at 866-890-1397.(See attached file: Mira Mesa Boulevard Ramp
Closure.pdf)

News Release - Sabre Springs Community Meeting

Sabre Springs
Planning Group

Sabre Springs
Maintenance Assessment District
Advisory Group

News Release

Contact: Craig Balben
(858) 486-1583
(858) 243-6374 Cell

June 10, 2009

Sabre Springs Community Invites Public Participation
Sabre Springs Planning Group to consider allocating maintenance assessment district funds for water-wise demonstration project

On Monday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Carmel Mountain Ranch/Sabre Springs Recreation Center, the Sabre Springs Planning Group (SSPG) will be hosting a workshop and is inviting residents, renters, property owners and business owners in Sabre Springs to participate and help the group decide what to do with excess funds in its maintenance assessment district reserves.

The SSPG makes decisions on its maintenance assessment district as the Sabre Springs Maintenance Assessment District (SSMAD) Advisory Board. “One option we are considering is to allocate excess funds for a water-wise median demonstration project,” said Craig Balben, chair of the SSPG. “The city has declared a Level 2 Drought Alert and the demonstration project would remove old landscaping and an old irrigation system in one of the street medians in Sabre Springs and replace them with new water-wise landscaping and a new irrigation system. The demonstration project would help reduce landscape maintenance costs and energy use and also be a showcase to the Sabre Springs community that landscaping can be beautiful and low-water-use.”

The city has interpreted state law that dictates special districts like the SSMAD not carry more than 50% of its annual operating budget in reserves. The SSMAD’s Fiscal 2009 operating expenses are estimated to be a little more than $184,000. At the conclusion of Fiscal Year 2009, The SSMAD fund balance is estimated to be $166,000. The SSMAD is aiming to make a decision on what to do with its excess reserves of approximately $74,000 at its July 15 board meeting.

Water use and landscape maintenance are generally the largest budget line items in a maintenance assessment district’s budget. For SSMAD, those two items make up approximately 50% of its budget. The demonstration project’s goals would be to reduce expenditures in both of those categories.

Other options on what to do with the excess reserves include allocating the funds for a different project, reducing assessments for a one-year period, or a combination thereof.

“Obviously, we have some ideas about how best to use the excess funds, but this is democracy in its most fundamental sense,” says Balben. “This is an opportunity for the community to be involved in a profoundly grassroots way and help shape the direction of the SSMAD for years to come.”

Each property owner in Sabre Springs is assessed a different amount, depending on the property type, for the maintenance assessment district. In Fiscal Year 2009 for example, single-family homeowners were charged $22.20 per year, condo owners were charged $15.54 per year, while businesses were charged based on the size of their parcel. These rates are among the lowest in the city’s 57 assessment/improvement districts.

For more information about the Sabre Springs community or the SSPG and upcoming meetings, visit http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/sabresprings/index.shtml.
or http://www.sabre-springs.com/. You can also follow the SSPG on twitter @SabreSpringsPG.

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The Sabre Springs Planning Group is composed of volunteers from the Sabre Springs community, representing landowner, business, and renter interests. They are an advisory group to the city on land-use and planning issues within the Sabre Springs community.

Description of Man

I got a lot of responses wanting to know the description of the car and person. This is from your neighbor. Also, the incident happened in the Morningside area.

"I’d say it’s probably a 2006 or 2007, definitely newer model, Gold Honda Civic 4-door. The man was an older Caucasian, late 40’s, early 50’s. Tall with brownish, grayish hair and he was wearing glasses."