Wildfire protection: <\/strong>Strengthening the building code for construction in high-risk fire areas and offering grants to existing homeowners to encourage the installation of safer vents, walls and other fire-resistant materials.<\/p>\n New homes and communities must be built to give people and property the greatest chance of survival.<\/p>\n Mental health and substance abuse services: <\/strong>Developing a coordinated system of care that focuses on individuals, not programs, and making improvements related to the county\u2019s Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams (PERT).<\/p>\n Energy: <\/strong>Joining the community choice energy movement and teaming up with local cities to open up the energy market.<\/p>\n County government is already allowed to shop the energy market. We buy the bulk of our electricity from providers other than SDG&E.<\/p>\n If the county can shop for energy, why not the rest of us? Why not ratepayers, school districts and others?<\/p>\n With two new members on the Board of Supervisors, it\u2019s time to open the window to bold ideas and fresh opportunities. I plan to make the most of it!<\/p>\n I welcome your thoughts and feedback on what is already turning into a busy 2019.<\/p>\n \u2014 Dianne Jacob is San Diego County Supervisor for District 2. For more District 2 news, visit diannejacob.com<\/a> or follow her on Facebook and Twitter. For assistance with a county issue, call 619-531-5522 or email dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By\u00a0Dianne\u00a0Jacob In my recent State of the County address, I laid out an ambitious list of initiatives that will help us address many of our biggest challenges.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":225919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Housing, wildlife protection and more","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Housing,](\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dianne_Jacob_Photo-200x300.jpg\")
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