One big proposed change would be the increase in field rental costs for recreational youth sports groups. These groups currently don’t pay a field rental fee, unless they need to use the field lights. Under the new proposal, groups with 70 percent or more of their members living in Encinitas would pay a $5-an-hour field use fee, plus a $5 per-person fee for the non-residents in their organization. Groups who don’t meet the 70 percent standard would pay $10 hour, plus the $5 per-person, non-resident fee.
Encinitas Little League President Ted Haberfield told the commissioners the proposed changes would likely add 10 percent to 20 percent to his organization’s annual budget. Most of the organization’s funding comes from the participating families and “I couldn’t imagine having to increase fees,” he said.
The league, which represents some 700 families, has paid for many improvements to the fields over the years and that ought to be considered in the city’s calculations, he stressed.
Friday, May 5, 2023
City wants more money from Little League families
After blowing $10 million on an "arts center" that has remained vacant and dilapidated for almost a decade, city government now wants to put the squeeze on Little League families.
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ReplyDeleteThe proposed user fee updates would generate approximately $250,000 in additional revenue to the City. Current and proposed cost recovery percentage per category are indicated in the updated fees and cost recovery worksheets
Attachment 2). Cost recovery for indoor facilities would increase from approximately 8% to 9.8% and the cost recovery for all other facilities would increase from approximately 2.3% to 10%.
The city only has around 500K left over budget in the bank right now, that 250K is a big deal.
Cost recovery 10%.
ReplyDeleteTranslation: the City is asking users to pay fees to cover 10% of the facility costs. The other 90% is covered by tax payers.
Screaming deal.
Stop whining.
Tony Kranz, Da Dunce, wants his name on the Pacific View plaque. He knows the City will not call the City's Second Senior Center/Community Center/ Homeless Parking Lot - "Da Dunce Center" so he is trying to work some angles. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteThe City needs to do something to generate major revenue to support the $2,000,000 dollars per year to operate and maintain the Second Community Center ( SCC - PV). Its expensive to operate community centers. As a starting point, they could estimate the cost by taking the true O & M costs including deprecation from the First Community Center/Senior Center/ Homeless Parking and double it because of the marine environment. They also need to put major funds into a depreciation fund and long term maintenance of the building because the citizens know how expensive it is to maintenance a functioning home or building right next to the beach. Being right next to the beach salty marine envirnment, everything on the site deteriorates like parts and materials on a boat. Thats right - maintenance at this location will be 3 times the maintenance of the City's First Community Center/Senior Center/ Homeless Parking Lot.
Because local agencies thinks they will make a ton of revenue from the pot shops, that their hope. My guess is their wrong, black market prices are way cheaper and most quality is better.
A few other questions?
1. How is the Rail Trail coming along Vulcan Avenue between Leucadia Blvd. and La Costa?
2. How is the repairs coming to Tony's Fence that blocks 300 to 400 people a day from walking to Just Peachy and other local stores to enjoy their local stores instead of driving and polluting everywhere?
When is the City going to remove Tony's Fence? Its bad for the community and really ugly.
3. How are the safe walkways on La Costa Avenue coming?
4. When are F()*)ing streets going to be fixed?
5. When is the Leucadia Blvd grade separation - trench the tracks like in Solana Beach? That was promised 20 years ago.
6. When is the City going to return and fix the bike lanes in the City they ruined so bicyclists are not being injured or killed?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/556935515245051/
Tony Kranz is a complete idiot. When can we get rid of this loser? Where can I sign the recall petition?
A simple solution is, or, help is on the way....SELL THAT DAMN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL PROPERTY. There, part of a problem solved. Even a moron such as myself can figure this out.
ReplyDelete8:46- 👌💯
DeleteThis week, four POS domestic terrorist Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. In the prison shower, stand back and stand by.
ReplyDeleteAlso, eight fake electors from the plot to fraudulently steal the election cut immunity deals to cooperate with prosecutors. Now they will flip on the coup leaders or risk losing their immunity deal.
It was a great week for democracy and America.
🥱…. Keep your ammo dry.
DeleteLiberty 💯. Liberty or death
Delete12:09, are you a POS domestic terrorist?
DeleteNo. That’s such a weird question. Why would you ask that?
DeleteYep, keep that ammo dry and the shemen can hit a burglar in the head with their purse.
DeleteMy home insurance is Smith and Wesson and CZ
That CZ will go through 3 walls, of your neighbors house. Thats if the perp doesn’t take it from you like the homeless guy did to the vet who owned a coffee shop downtown. Truth is ain’t nobody breaking into your shitbox to steal a 15 year old flatscreen or you beanie baby collection.
Delete5:01...I always go for center mass...the round will never reach a wall. "he, who hesitates, is lost"
DeleteWe have the America loving Dems to thank for some justice to finally be served and that is not all that is coming down on the traitorous America hating right wingers in the near future. Time to pile on is coming and so righteously deserved. Saving our democracy is up to the America loving left since the America hating right is all in for an authoritarian style of government.
ReplyDelete🥱 please start your own blog, focused on the banter between the right and the left… it’s by design to keep your eye off of the real issues. Carry-on chumps.
DeleteNow, hopefully back to local issues
11:02...you are very odd
DeleteYou must be new around here. Personally, I hope your wishes would become standard practice on this blog site. Worth a shot and I am with you, for all the good it will do.
ReplyDeleteFinally they have their study to substantiate shutting down the polluting super low ridership diesel burning Coadter program that pumps 1,400,000 spent diesel carcinogens into everyone’s lungs including children.
DeleteREGION — Air pollution has longed been linked to poor health outcomes, but in a report released May 2 from a team of researchers led by scientists at UC San Diego, it was also said to create a significantly greater risk of dementia.
Three years ago, an international study commissioned by the journal Lancet listed 12 modifiable factors that increased the risk of dementia, including three new ones: excessive alcohol, head injury and air pollution.
The scientists monitored the impact of ambient air pollution — such as car exhaust and power plant emissions — on around 1,100 men participating in the ongoing Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging.
https://thecoastnews.com/study-air-pollution-linked-to-greater-risk-of-dementia/
Finally they have their study to substantiate shutting down the NCTD polluting super low ridership diesel burning Coaster program that pumps 1,400,000 spent diesel carcinogens into everyone’s lungs including children.
DeleteSounds to me like this study suggests we should implement per mile use taxes on cars and eliminate parking requirements. That would cause a mode shift to public transportation that would dramatically lower pollution.
DeleteAnother way to reduce pollution would be to impose a ramped registration cost on personal fossil fuel vehicles and an end date when registrations won’t be renewed at all.
DeleteLet’s say that date was 2030. That would force people buying today to consider whether they want to buy a ICE car that they can only use for seven years before they have to sell it out of state. That would drive more sales of electric vehicles.
It’s where we’re going. Get onboard now.
Of course, there’d be an exception for classic cars available. Limit the number of such registrations and sell them to the highest bidders in a blind auction.
You might be right if it’s clean functional public transit that people will chose to ride.
DeleteHere, here- let’s get this party started. Please sign up for a better future! Register your email at the end of this excellent factual summary of an awesome proposal!!
ReplyDeletehttps://coaster-rail-to-trail.org/
Remember, the first Encinitas downtown classic car show of the year occurs on the third Thursday of this month for those cars and trucks that had individual style in abundance and that has been so lacking ever since. For sure, very few, if any, have pollution controls, but thankfully they are parked for hours. Haha
ReplyDeleteI love those old cars which are cool for sure. It’s so fun to see the old technology and how far we’ve come. I remember driving those things in the 60s and 70s. Old clunkers for sure.
ReplyDeleteNow today we have much cleaner, faster, and more responsive and safer vehicles with far better design. I love positive change. Even though we’ve seem to have screwed up this world pretty bad, I have hope for our future with our next generation and how smart and innovative, they are … Way to go kids!! ❤️❤️❤️
How Many Pacers and Gremlins are at the car show?
ReplyDeleteIDK, but two Pintos, one Vega and a Yugo.
DeleteDon't forget the Corvair and the Nash Rambler, which happened to be my first car. It had a Continental Care kit and a whole lot of other features.
DeleteI never see statistics on how the mid coast trolley is doing. What is the ridership and what's the subsidy per rider?
ReplyDeleteSo how is that trolley really doing?
This is what I do see....
That’s not the whole story, per student remarks cited in the report. “The trolley is terrible, it is unsafe,” according to an unidentified “scholar.” “She feels bad for the younger students who have to take it. Commented that a man had a gun on the trolley and was arrested in front of her. She wishes we had the buses. She can get home around 6:30 pm if she goes to after-school activities. The earliest she gets home is 5:20 on the bus. She could get home at 5 pm, and if she stayed for after-school activities, she could be home by 6 pm. If public transportation is unreliable, she has to walk 20 minutes to the trolley and then gets tardy. Lots of altercations on the trolley, and it is scary when it is dark. She finds it unhelpful to call for MTS help in front of someone acting out. She has to strategically think out where to sit on the trolley to feel safe.”
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2023/may/03/radar-preusss-trolley-travails/
It looks like trolleys and trains are now the new super expensive polluting mobility homeless and tweekerville.....
ReplyDeleteThe unhoused riders on LA Metro buses and trains are only half the problem. The county transit agency has learned that the other half — which may be more troublesome — is when these riders are forced to exit from the buses and trains after midnight.
Nearly 600 Metro homeless riders, who must disembark nightly while the trains and buses go out of service for maintenance, end up sleeping on city sidewalks, in parks or in building alcoves.
About 800 homeless individuals shelter on Metro rail on any given night, and on average about 555 people experiencing homelessness exit onto city streets at “end-of-line” stations located throughout Los Angeles County, according to a survey released on Thursday, April 27.
The problem has gotten so severe that Metro is scrambling to find solutions and is considering enacting a homeless emergency, similar to those enacted by the city and county of Los Angeles.
https://www.dailynews.com/2023/04/28/la-metro-survey-about-600-homeless-riders-exit-nightly-when-train-service-ends/
Doors opened and closed. A few passengers filed in and out. A grain of the opioid fell to the floor. He concentrated on trying to pick it up, then lost track, as his body went limp. His shoulders slumped and he slowly keeled forward.
By the time the train arrived at the Wilshire/Western station, Morales, 29, was doubled over and near motionless, his hand on the floor. The train operator walked out of the cabin, barely glancing at him as she passed — as if she encountered such scenes all the time.
Drug use is rampant in the Metro system. Since January, 22 people have died on Metro buses and trains, mostly from suspected overdoses — more people than all of 2022. Serious crimes — such as robbery, rape and aggravated assault — soared 24% last year compared with the previous.
“Horror.” That’s how one train operator recently described the scenes he sees daily. He declined to use his name because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Earlier that day, as he drove the Red Line subway, he saw a man masturbating in his seat and several people whom he refers to as “sleepers,” people who get high and nod off on the train.
“We don’t even see any businesspeople anymore. We don’t see anybody going to Universal. It’s just people who have no other choice [than] to ride the system, homeless people and drug users.”
Commuters have abandoned large swaths of the Metro train system. Even before the pandemic, ridership in the region was never as high as other big-city rail systems. For January, ridership on the Gold Line was 30% of the pre-pandemic levels, and the Red Line was 56% of them.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-14/horror-the-deadly-use-of-drugs-on-metro-trains
Your tax dollars at work. Tony supports the drug trains and putting up fences that block well over 300 neighbors from visiting local stores like Just Peachy and the beach for some fresh air and excersise.
Let's cut Tony like we cut Tony's fences. Lets focus on building bridges, health and connections, not fences.
Where can I sign the recall petition?
How did we go from raising fees to kids that want to play sports, which might keep them out of other trouble, to what is happening on the Metro in L.A.? I understand it is a serious concern, but unless you have a solution, and Kranz doesn't have a clue, might as well let the kids play at the old rate. the extra money won't go to any good use, let's be honest.
ReplyDelete90% subsidy isn’t enough for you?
DeleteWhat City properties do the two Little Leagues use? The YMCA owns the fields on Saxony, the other fields are at schools.
DeleteWho gets the bill? The soccer teams at Leo Mullin, and the softballers on Park Drive. No baseball or softball is played at Encinitas Community Park.
This is also about subsidizing residents of Carlsbad that use Encinitas fields.
What a mess. The city supports homeless losers, and chases off aspiring children.
This is like the time one of the Soccer honchos in the 90's suggested there would be a youth crimewave if more soccer fields weren't put in at the Hall property...
DeleteRemember when nobody wanted lights at Hall Park? Suckahs got lights on the freeway instead.
Delete6:38- that’s exactly right. You can thank all the losers that voted for Tony Kranz in the last election. Like pigtails, Garvin, John Gjata, Kathleen Lees just to name a few…..
ReplyDeleteOh, you can add Marco to that loser list and BIA….
ReplyDeleteThank all the losers for selling out in Encinitas, and putting the town dunce as mayor.
They are winning, that is why you are mad. Republikkkants are the only ones losing. At least Kranz, GOATspear and your daddy Newsome are keeping property values up and have created a ton of equity for home owners. I have a million + in equity but i got in when property values were low and republicans were in charge.
DeleteMad?… 🤣… what do I care. They’re building the shit hole not me. It’s fun to watch. Look at how bad they F’d up San Francisco.
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