On Nov. 14 the Encinitas City Planning Department approved an Encinitas Union School District development for a Farm Lab on Quail Gardens Drive. (PBD number 2016-52 in the notice of decision city archives) There is methane on this property. The Planning Department, the School District, the Director of the farm lab seem oblivious to the fact that elementary schoolchildren will be in the same area as the methane. Anna Yentile, the City’s planner for this project, wrote:
The planner also wrote as part of the approval:
“No potentially significant adverse impacts to the environment will result from the project and the project is exempt from environmental review pursuant to Section 15304(b) and 15311 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.”
City Senior Planner Kerry Kusiak approved the project.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Methane found on EUSD Farm Lab site
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This project is a JOKE within the community! Our kids should be in school, not farming carrots and celery. What a waste of taxpayer money, that should've been used in the classroom. I voted for new board representatives because of this specific issue. Lets hope they close this careless project down.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. As Mayor Gaspar has pointed out, the kids don't actually spend any time there. It's purely a financial boondoggle and a resume-builder for Baird.
DeleteYou're a joke, and most of the voters didn't agree with you.
DeleteI think it's outstanding that my kids are learning skills that will allow them to grow their own fresh and healthy food. Our nation has become a bunch of overweight desk jockeys with high blood pressure, heart disease, and clogged arteries. Our national cost of healthcare is out of control.
My kids are not suffering academically; they are doing great. Our schools are providing the tools to do well both professionally and personally.
Way to go EUSD; keep up the good work. Ignore 10:23. He or she is just stressed out and will likely keel over soon.
10:46,
DeleteThe voters dumped the only EUSD board incumbent on the ballot.
EU, it's not about incumbency. It's about support for "enrichment" programs that go beyond basic academics.
DeleteThe top vote getter in the race was Rimga Viskanta. From the Encinitas Advocate:
Question: "What do you see as some of the best things about EUSD?"
Answer: ". . . In addition to the core academics, Encinitas students benefit from myriad health and wellness initiatives which will have positive effects into adulthood."
The voters elected a board majority that will continue support for these programs.
Not only can our kids farm and grow organic produce, they can frack the methane on site to produce unlimited energy to be self sustaining.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the source of this methane on this site?
Does it come from all the bs that has followed this project or from the greatly overpaid salary that Mim has been receiving? That there is a cause for gas. Light it up.
It will interesting to see where this goes from here. Someone tosses a cigarette in the wrong place and whoosh. Boom.
Mine it. Drill, baby, drill.
The sewage plant in Orange County is powered by the methane it produces. Who ownes the mining rights? We ditched the county, can we ditch SDGE and make our own power?
DeleteAs I recall from high school, methane is a gas, lighter than air, so it will tend to go up and contribute to global warming. It usually comes from decomposition of organic material. Likely in the past there was a swamp in that location and changes in sea level in ages past has caused this to be covered by sandy material. Our county dump has enough methane for it to be a ootential problem.
ReplyDeleteThe water table in there may be rising due to irrigation in the Encinitas Ranch, pushing the CH4 up. The report should have indicated the concentration level but it is probably too low to burn or cause problems. Isotopic analysis could help determine the age of the stuff.
11:10: Science died a couple of weeks ago.
DeleteThat's for sure, but maybe Science went to heaven and will rise again after Satan is defeated.
DeleteMIM MICHELOVE SHOULD BE FIRED! Have you seen this so-called garden? It looks terrible! I understand the school district is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on this project while closing down some other special programs and asking parents (me) to pay for paper and supplys for their kid's classroom. LETS START A PETITION TO STOP THIS NON-SENSE!
ReplyDeleteHire a Mexican gardener - they could do a better job than what is currently being done. Another 6 figure income for an incompetent.
DeleteAnyone else get the window rattle this morning around 8:30?
ReplyDeleteI think it's distant sonic boom from Miramar jets offshore.
I did, thought an earthquake was coming.
DeleteWhat's a little methane among friends?
ReplyDeleteMim is being so well paid for past and continuing services being rendered.
ReplyDeleteWhat services, you may ask?
Therein lies a multifaceted effort from certain influential supporters in our community and out of, with which she has acted an operative and a well paid one, to boot.
As a manipulator, she is on top of her game, for the time being.
Her overseeing the Farm Lab and the way overpaid salary, is another reward for services rendered.
Something smells and it is more than the fertilizer.
It's methane you smell, that is what this thread is all about.
DeleteDave Roberts has conceded to Kristen Gaspar. Congrats to Kristen and her family.
ReplyDeleteI hope she enjoys her travel time on I-5. Meetings begin promptly at 9 a.m. No excuses for being late.
DeleteThe developers have won. Start the engines on the bulldozers.
DeletePerhaps she can use Roberts driver...
DeleteNegative positive publicity, just spell my name right.
Delete— Kristin
So there are "explosion dangers," yet "No potentially significant adverse impacts to the environment" and the project is "exempt from environmental review."
ReplyDeleteHow can you possibly hold both thoughts in your head, planning dept.? Anna is being taught well by first Manjeet and now Kusiak.
Has planning EVER suggested an environmental impact report be prepared? I'd love to see an example, because I don't believe there is one.
There would only be explosion danger if closed buildings were built on the corner of the parcel where methane seeps out.
DeleteThe methane has to be contained and collected in a closed volume to present a hazard. Since no buildings are proposed in that area, there is no risk.
I feel much better now (not). 11:00, you letting your kids out there?
DeleteAnd isn't it late for you to be posting? We paying overtime for you?
One of my kids was at the farm lab today, as a matter of fact.
DeleteShe loved it.
Cows fart methane. If that was bad for farms or farmers, methinks it would have been a thing. It's not.
The big push by Planning is almost always to claim an exemption from environmental review, the truth be damned.
ReplyDeleteMichelove has no teaching credential and no educational background other than being a photographer. She does take good pictures, unfortunately they're not from this garden. We call that false advertising! If she want to help - volunteer like everyone else. Quit ripping us off!
ReplyDeleteMim must go!!! I voted for change at EUSD.
ReplyDeleteMajority of voters didn't agree.
DeleteTurns out you're wrong, 7:41.
DeleteThat's two strikes against Kusiak in so many days.
ReplyDeleteWhat did he win for this particular effort?
Deletewho farted?
ReplyDeleteHoof Hearted.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/Kqj2hkbDnyM
Mim Mitchelove is as dumb as a garden rock! If they pay her anything, she's over paid!
ReplyDeleteThey pay her $111K in salary and benefits! (source UT)
DeleteMore than 3 full time aides, more than twice a credentialed teacher position.
Original: Methane found on EUSD Farm Lab site
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As long as the garden is draining our school tax dollars, I will not donate to the school for supplies or programs. If you can afford this program, you can afford school supplies and any other special program! Mim needs to go!
ReplyDeleteThis garden is a joke and a money pit. EUSD could save money and do field trips to a Real growing facility if they wanted to learn something. I grew up on this street in the nursery business, and the state of this property is just sad.
ReplyDeleteThis was an administrative decision. It says in the agenda report, signed by Kerry Kusiak, that a single person asked that the project go to the Planning Commission. Code says that a single person making the request sends it to the PC. Kusiak cavalierly dismisses the request without specifying what the person said. Too bad more people didn't show up, but the city makes it difficult to find out about these administrative decisions.
ReplyDeleteThe fix was in. The school and the Planning Department wanted to push this through with minimum public exposure. It's a personal cash cow for Mim and other line on Baird's resumé. It will be a financial black hole.
BTW the methane gas seepage is most likely a buried dump site. All the bigger ranches had one, including the Eckes. The smaller ranches used the old county dump site off of Encinitas Boulevard.
Buried ranch dump site sounds quite likely. When the Encinitas Ranch was developed there was quite a lot of soil moved around to create all the expensive view lots. There may have been a gully there where stuff was dumped then covered. There were all kinds of junked cars and rusted refrigeraters in Indian Head Canyon, the same kind of trash may be under the school site.
DeleteA good portion of this site was sloped originally and they cut most of the area out. It was a poinsettia cutting field with a ranch residence built into slope. A lot less dirt was moved than most people think.
DeleteFIRE MIM MITCHELOVE!!! SHE IS INCOMPETENT!!!
ReplyDeleteI and many others voted for the two non-incumbant candidates in order for EUSD to specifically change direction and eliminate the farm. We have more important educational needs - like basic education and the teachers that prepare our kids for higher education and quality jobs.
ReplyDeleteYou are a minority. The majority elected a board that is generally friendly to enrichment programs.
DeleteYeah, we deserve our elected officials for follow those who got them into office. Go President Trump!
DeleteNo, you were wrong, 10:10. Schneider prevailed.
DeleteOne seat doesn't make a majority.
DeleteLeichtag Coastal Roots Farm just sent out this email below:
ReplyDelete"Help Us Give 40 San Diego Families a ‘Fresh’ Start in 2017
By year’s end, our goal is to raise $18,000 to provide fresh produce for 40 families in North San Diego County.
Families will receive one box of farm fresh veggies every week for 3 months."
Ok so 1 box of fresh veggies costs $37.50 but let's be honest and acknowledge that these 'untouched' veggies take tons of time and energy to clean, cut or peel, cook and make them even edible (especially to poorer people who are conditioned to massive amounts of fat, sugar, sodium and flavor enhancers from fast food)...and isn't this the real reason the mass majority of people don't buy these expensive boxes of fresh produce? Come on, be honest, you signed up once and the 'high maintenance' veggies just started piling up and you ended up cancelling because you weren't willing to dedciate half of your evening to prepping and cooking these raw vegetables.
Leichtag's tear-jerking quote from a 'beneficiary family' is a blatant lie. In contract to the statement below, I see inexpensive fresh and healthy produce in every Walmart I visit and there is almost always a Walmart near each allegedly "under-served" community AND these people can now also use their tax-payer funded EBT cash cards to buy Spinach eggs bowls at McDonalds...seen any McDonalds in under-served communities?
“My husband got laid off and it’s been incredibly hard for us. We can barely afford food and nothing that is healthy or fresh (IF WE CAN FIND OUT WHERE THIS 'BENEFICIARY FAMILY' LIVES AND IT'S DETERMINED THAT THEY LIVE WITHIN FIVE MILES OF A WALMART, THIS WOULD BE PROOF OF THE DECEPTION OF THIS STATEMENT). I worry about our kids (OH REALLY, I HAVE FOUR KIDS AND NONE OF THEM WOULD TOUCH A VEGETABLE UNTIL THEY WERE ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD. KIDS DON'T TEND TO EAT MANY 'FRESH UNIDENTIFIABLE VEGETABLES' AKA ANYTHING OTHER THAN CARROTS OR BROCCOLI UNTIL THEY GROW UP) and don’t know what we’d do without your help…” – Coastal Roots Farm beneficiary family.
It really doesn't take that long to prepare fresh vegetables by steaming them. Kids can and do learn to appreciate them. It's vital to all of our health to be weaned off of overly processed foods, loaded with sugar, preservatives, artificial flavors, and GMO's.
DeleteMs Mitchelove said that Supervisor Roberts will donate money to subsidize the farm. I say good, keep their hands off our school dollars. It's hard enough just to get the needed teachers.
ReplyDeleteIt does take a long time to clean, peel, cut and cook raw carrots. When is the last time you peeled some raw carrots (anyone over 50 doesn't count in this Monkey Survey)?
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