The Agenda: Today's A.M. Political Roundup

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Good morning from Hillcrest.

A light day in San Diego political news, yesterday. Perhaps people were still recovering from sugar hangovers. We'll lead off with more Chargers stadium news. Elected officials from five North County cities gathered to develop a regional plan that puts the Chargers stadium in Escondido and has related development spread among Escondido, Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista and San Marcos. Those who attended said the meeting went well.

The state Legislature is nearing a deal to reshape California's water policy. San Diego County officials, including city Mayor Jerry Sanders, are applauding. City estimates are that households will have to pay an additional $48 per year on their water utility bills to pay the local share of a $7 billion to $10 billion canal project.

Conservative blog, SDRostra.Com has two posts of note. A La Mesa City Councilman has changed his mind and is not going to run against Dianne Jacob for County Supervisor in 2012. It also reports that embattled Poway City Councilwoman Betty Rexford has left the Republican Party.

Some city of San Diego pension news. The city won a lawsuit yesterday that denies paramedics pension payments based on their overtime instead of their 40-hour-per-week wages. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith says the ruling closed the door on the potential of further lawsuits brought city workers on this issue.

And in Encinitas, the city ended a stalemate with its Chamber of Commerce.

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-- LIAM DILLON

1 Comments so far on this story...

"The city won a lawsuit yesterday that denies paramedics pension payments based on their overtime instead of their 40-hour-per-week wages." That is a huge win for the tax payers of San Diego. The immoral process of spiking has long been known to take place in government. The city of Huntington Beach was exposed for this years ago. The way spiking works is overtime hours are given to outgoing friends within the city to build their last year wages. Pension is based on wages so for the pension payments for the next 30 years or so are unnaturally high. The tax users are a smaller group than the tax payers but their unification often results in wins. Glad to see this time goodness won out.

Posted by Heyoehkah | reply to this comment
November 4, 2009 6:36 am

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