CARMEL MOUNTAIN RANCH COMMUNITY COUNCIL

MEETING MINUTES

April 8, 2009

 

The regular meeting of the CMRCC was held at the Carmel Mountain Ranch Branch Library on April 8, 2009.  John Giltner, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm.  Official business was conducted as reported below.

 

Members Present

Members Absent

Members Excused

John Giltner

Cyndie Bradley

Barbara Finn

Andy Cos-Y-Leon

Anne Chang

Phil Bell

Dave Booher

Laurie Marcus

Sam Rasoul

Kurt Carlson

 

Judy Hertzberg

 

 

 

 

Deva Edelman

 

 

 

 

 
 

        I.      Call to order and welcome by Chairman – John Giltner  

      II.      Introduction of Board Members.

    III.      Approval of minutes – March 2009 (8 approved, 0 disapprovals, 1 abstention)

    IV.      CMRCC business.

 

a.            Public Comment - none

b.            Neighborhood Police Report - Officer Paul Lennon

                                                               i.      Captain is in Quantico for a few months (Carolyn Kindreck will be filling in)

                                                             ii.      Burglaries have decreased from February since the undercover cops have been around the neighborhoods.

                                                            iii.      Recommended to monitor internet use closely because of the incident at the Chevron on Penasquitos/Carmel Mountain Road.  A family at the gas station was threatened by some guys with a golf club, who wanted money and who took an ipod.  It turns out that the girls knew these guys from MySpace.

                                                           iv.      Reminder that the curfew in San Diego is 10:00 PM and in Poway is 11:00 PM for teens less than 18 years of age. 

 

c.             Senator Hollingsworth (Ellen Malin) – not here

d.            Assembly-man Fletcher – Clinton Soffer

 

                                                               i.      Assembly Bill) AB#12 – Raised the age of foster care coverage from 18 to 21; better for the child; federal funds (extra 70 million to accommodate up to 21)

                                                             ii.      AB#23 – Bipartisan; he signed with Assemblyman Jones; 20 employees or less – will have access to Federal COBRA funds; lowers rate for healthcare; this will be going through the senate the next month or so.

                                                            iii.      State website – Nathan Fletcher does a capital update video 2-3minutes; new every week (http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/member/75/)

                                                           iv.      Will be scheduling once/month a community coffee somewhere in San Diego; May 2 1st one in University Center (Stanley Rec Center); will have one in this [Carmel Mountain Ranch] area and are working on it,

 

e.            Supervisor Pam Slater-Price (Marc Olson) – vegetation management plan for unincorporated areas; clearing out dead trees; the board approved looking at a firs assessment study for all of San Diego; Sheriff is stepping down and the board is debating on whether or not to replace to wait until 2010; small business forum will be held April 23 (see attachment).  

f.              Councilman Carl DeMaio (Attending) - Kelly Batten (representative); will be here once every 3 or 4 months; his office is open he is your representative at City Hall – Main issue: financial crisis – he does not want to cut down on service levels anymore; pothole repair and infrastructure are a high priority.  He believes the water allocation program proposal is not fair and is challenging the water department. Overall believes that the city should not treat residents differently from how industry is treated in regard to water; shopping carts abandoned and the oversized vehicle ordinance may be over a year in implementing; the oversize vehicles could recoup 80% of the cost for implementation and they are looking into shopping cart retrieval.

 

                                                               i.      Question: Turning over the trash pickup to being paid by residents?  Don’t recyclables pay for it?  Response: Labor and operating costs are extremely high; not sustainable; cost of operating needs to be brought down. 

                                                             ii.      They have been working on reclaimed water…on Scripps Poway Parkway and moving closer to Carmel Mountain Ranch; there are pipes along 15, from Rancho Bernardo south

                                                            iii.      To keep libraries open, the city went into their reserves

                                                           iv.      City proposing changing retirement age to older than what it is currently set at.

 

g.             San Diego Planning Dept. – not present

h.            CMR Fire Station – not present

i.               Mayor Sanders – Stephen Lew – not present

j.               Chair’s Report:

 

                                                               i.      Past chairwoman memorial – The tree has been planted; awaiting approval in the wording “In memory of Joetta McNamara Mihalovich”; Laurie will contact her husband and discuss.

                                                             ii.      Shoal Creek Bridge subcommittee – Congressman Hunter identified $550,000 for this bridge; a city engineer stated that $3 million from “stimulus” city money was coming; therefore, Hunter backed down.  However, it turns out that the stimulus money was not a guarantee and was based on some e-mail communication.  Lastly, the meeting held on March 26th at 10AM at Shoal Creek School was for main committee

 

k.               Old Business

 

                                                               i.      The voiced concern about the lack of a monthly homeowners meeting newsletter – recommend that whoever has a concern attend a homeowner’s meeting or send a letter to the Walter’s management company.

                                                             ii.      The revised by-laws [revised October 2008] currently not implemented. [Post meeting communication – final by-laws distributed April 23, 2009.  

                                                            iii.      Motion to change the meeting schedule to June 09, August 09, October 09; January 2010 (2nd wed. @ 6:30) (9 yeah/0 opposed/0 abstentions)

 

l.               New Business –

 

                                                               i.      Conditional use permit for a vet center to use on World Trade Drive; need 13.5 parking slots; they have 14 slots

                                                             ii.      Draft very high fire hazardous maps; much of Carmel Mountain Ranch is in the hazardous area

                                                            iii.      The Council was unanimous for voting back both Sam and Kurt (9 yeah/0 nay/0 abstentions)

                                                           iv.      COW training May 2.

                                                             v.      Recreational  council is sponsoring an egg hunt at the park across from Oggi’s; bring recyclables there and the council gets a %.

 

      V.      Adjournment  at 7:33PM

 

Next meeting June 10th, 6:30PM

Carmel Mountain Ranch Public Library