Daily Business Report-Oct. 9, 2019
Guests learn how the Pure Water Oceanside purification process works at the San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility. The purification system is scheduled for completion in 2022.
City of Oceanside offers tours of facility
that will recycle and purify water
The city of Oceanside is now offering tours to experience Pure Water Oceanside, an up coming innovative program that will purify recycled water to create a new local source of high-quality drinking water that is clean, safe, drought-proof and environmentally sound.
Pure Water Oceanside will produce enough water to provide more than 32 percent of the city’s water supply, or 3-5 million gallons per day. The system is scheduled to be completed in 2022.
Open to the public, the tours offer a behind-the-scenes look of the San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility, where guests will learn about the technology used to recycle and purify water. Attendees will also have an opportunity to filter water with their own hands, touch water filtration membranes and learn about where our water comes from and what happens when it goes down our drains.
Upcoming tours at the San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility, 3950 N. River Road, Oceanside, are scheduled on the following dates:
- Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. (includes optional tour of the Mission Basin Groundwater Facility)
- Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m.
Special tours are also available for larger groups and can be arranged by emailing PureWaterOceanside@oceansideca.orgfor more information.
To learn more about Pure Water Oceanside and to sign up for one of the upcoming tours, visit www.PureWaterOceanside.org.
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MiraCosta College to break ground on new
Student Services & Administration Building
MiraCosta College will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for the new 10,770- square-foot Student Services & Administration Building on the San Elijo campus at 3333 Manchester Ave. in Cardiff. The event is at 3 p.m.
Construction for the $13,730,978 project, funded through MiraCosta’s capital improvement program using funds from Measure MM, is expected to be completed in October, 2020.
The new building will replace the existing outdated Administration Building. It also will consolidate key student services, including Admissions & Records, Counseling and Financial Aid, into a central location.
Designed by Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, the new building has been designed to complement the nearby bluffs and lagoon, and provide a new welcoming gateway for the San Elijo campus. The building will be organized along a central circulation “spine” that will provide commanding views out to the lagoon and will serve as an iconic “lighthouse” for the campus from Manchester Avenue. The design includes several exterior covered spaces with seating and spaces for students and staff to gather, study, and socialize. An art walk will be located in the building arcade featuring student murals on interchangeable panels.
Little Diversified is the project architect, LandLAB is the landscape architect and Barnhart Reese Construction is the general contractor.
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects SDG&E appeal
to pass $379 million in wildfire costs to ratepayers
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not hear San Diego Gas & Electric’s appeal of a California Supreme Court case that rejected the utility’s request to put ratepayers on the hook for $379 million in costs related to the 2007 wildfires that blazed through San Diego County.
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Navy commissions 10th littoral
combat ship headed for San Diego
Times of San Diego
The Navy has commissioned the 10th futuristic, trimaran-hull littoral combat ship to be based in San Diego. The USS Cincinnati was commissioned Saturday in Gulfport MS, and will now head to its home port of Naval Base San Diego.
The fast, highly maneuverable ship built by Austal USA has a crew of 40 and carries a 57mm main gun, various missile systems, two helicopters and a helicopter drone.
“USS Cincinnati and her crew will play an important role in the defense of our nation and maritime freedom,” said Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer. “She stands as proof of what teamwork — from civilian to contractor to military — can accomplish.”
The Navy is building 38 of the ships in two variants. All of the Independence-variant littoral ships like the Cincinnati are based in San Diego, while the more traditional monohull Freedom variants are based in Mayport, Fla.
They are all modular, reconfigurable vessels designed to meet requirements for surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare and mine countermeasures in the littoral regions of the world.
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UCSD to launch J. Yang Scholarship
Program with $1.5 million gift
The University of California San Diego will receive a $1.5 million grant over five years from the J. Yang & Family Foundation to fund a broad initiative that will engage departments, divisions and schools across the university. A key component of the grant will be to help increase Taiwanese student admissions and provide a transition and support infrastructure for the J. Yang scholar cohort that will pave the way for a successful graduate career.
The foundation will establish the J. Yang Scholarship Program at UC San Diego to fund undergraduate and graduate scholarships and research programs for the purpose of recruiting and retaining highly promising future scholars from Taiwan high schools and universities. The grant will also support student research programs for UC San Diego students studying in Taiwan; travel and residencies for UC San Diego faculty and researchers; and an annual bilateral symposium to discuss topics of mutual interest, including current research partnerships, results of research collaborations and opportunities for seeding future activities.
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Crystal Anthony appointed to California
Board of Behavioral Sciences
Crystal Anthony, 33, of Oceanside, has been appointed to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences by Gov. Gavin Newsome. Anthony has been a therapist at the Program for Torture Victims and co-executive director for Underground GRIT since 2019.
She was a clinical social worker for the Orange County Health Care Agency from 2014 to 2019 and a bilingual project LIFE program coordinator at North County Lifeline from 2012 to 2015, where she was also a community assessment team therapist in 2014. She was an educationally-related mental health services behavioral health clinician in 2013. Anthony is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association. Anthony earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Anthony is registered without party preference.
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Income inequality is on the rise in California
Dan Morain | CALmatters
The gap between California’s haves and have-nots is growing ever-wider, a California Budget and Policy Center analysis of U.S.Census Bureau data found.
For the top 5 percent of households, income grew by 18.6 percent from 2006-2018 to $506,421, adjusting for inflation.
Median household income in California increased by 6.4 percent during that period to $75,277.
Income for households in the bottom 20 percent fell by 5.3 percent to $15,562 in 2018, when adjusted for inflation.
The Mercury News’ Erica Hellerstein detailed the report as part of The California Divide, a CalMatters collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in the Golden State.
For Hellerstein’s full report, click here.
