Versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol: www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/SAABenEspanol<\/a><\/p>\n Para obtener una copia impresa, llame al 619-236-6362 o env\u00ede una solicitud por correo a:<\/p>\n Atenci\u00f3n: Encuesta para personas mayores Para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n acerca de SAAB, visite su sitio web en sandiego.gov\/saab.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014William Kelly can be reached at wekbill@yahoo.com. Please do not forward the surveys to him, since it will only delay the time it takes to get to the right people.<\/em><\/p>\n By Michael Murphy<\/p>\n Kids love pools. But a swimming pool can be a dangerous place for children and tragedy can strike in an instant. With summer on the way, now\u2019s the perfect time to remember some basic guidelines for keeping your loved ones safe around the water.<\/p>\n First, make a habit of doing the following:<\/p>\n \u2014 Learn how to swim and teach your children how to swim. It\u2019s not just a skill you can use to have fun and stay fit, it will help keep you and your children safe.<\/p>\n \u2014 Never take your eyes off a child around a pool, not even for an instant. And if a child is missing, check the pool first. Every second you save could be the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n \u2014 Make sure someone is assigned the task of watching the children during poolside gatherings. Don\u2019t assume you will hear a child in trouble in the pool. Rarely does a child splash around before drowning \u2013 he or she simply sinks silently under water.<\/p>\n \u2014 If you\u2019re leaving a babysitter in charge of the kids, make sure the babysitter understands the critical importance of constant supervision around the pool.<\/p>\n \u2014 If you\u2019re taking the kids to a public pool or spa, make sure it complies with all local, state and federal safety regulations.<\/p>\n You can also take a number of proactive steps to make sure your loved ones stay safe:<\/p>\n You should install a 5-foot-high fence around your pool, one with a self-closing and self-latching gate. And never prop open the gate. Make a point of installing alarms on any doors or windows that open to a pool area. And avoid keeping any furniture next to the fence that a child might use to climb over the fence.<\/p>\n You should make sure your pool has an anti-entrapment drain cover that complies with all regulations. Each year dozens of children are injured or killed when an outdated pool drain sucks them down.<\/p>\n Last but not least, everyone in the family should learn CPR, especially if you have a pool in your backyard. Kids should learn it, too. Not long ago, two 13-year-old boys in National City used CPR to save the life of a 6-year-old boy who was spotted at the bottom of a pool at an apartment complex. The boy would not have survived had the two teens not been trained in CPR.<\/p>\n By following these basic guidelines, you and your family can enjoy a fun, safe and relaxing summer by the pool or at the beach.<\/p>\n \u2014Michael Murphy is general manager of American Medical Response in San Diego.<\/em><\/p>\n By David Lundin<\/p>\n (Editor\u2019s note: This open letter was sent to San Diego City Council president Sherri Lightner and members of the Charter Review Committee by David Lundin, president of the newly formed Balboa Park Heritage Association, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation.)<\/em><\/p>\n San Diego has a limited number of parkland, an ever-growing population, and some political and business forces motivated by greed or good intentions, which seek to privatize these precious public lands. We believe parkland should be protected and remain as public parkland.<\/p>\n Parkland is a scarce and precious public resource in any city, particularly in one expanding and becoming increasingly urbanized. Parkland will always be under pressure to be used for other purposes, to be sold or leased, or to be developed in part for non-park purposes. We believe to best preserve parkland for the next several generations of San Diego residents and visitors, existing City Charter protections of parkland should be both maintained and strengthened.<\/p>\n As president of the newly formed Balboa Park Heritage Association,\u00a0we both [1] strongly oppose any weakening of the existing parkland\u2019s protective language in the City Charter and [2] will propose new, more explicit protective language as amendments to the City Charter as part of the current comprehensive Charter Review process. We hope you will support these efforts to protect our parkland.<\/p>\n We propose clear, explicit and easily understood language as a Charter amendment to achieve this purpose. Absent strengthened protections, our\u00a0parkland will be subject to intense uses incompatible with the look, feel, atmosphere and objective of public parkland.<\/p>\n Only last month a San Diego charter school operator proposed locating a newly created “educational complex” for their campus in Balboa Park. To make this permissible, the proponents\u00a0suggested\u00a0new Charter language to permit “educational use” of parkland, including Balboa Park.<\/p>\n This proposed amendment could lead to the development of open public Balboa Park lands for privately controlled school buildings, fenced school recreational facilities and grounds, and additional development incompatible with the public recreational use of precious Balboa Park lands and assets.<\/p>\n The sole proponent of this proposal is the operator of a Bankers Hill charter school having designs on acquisition of a favorable leasehold or purchased lands in Balboa Park and development of a school campus. This proponent states its proposal is “a possibility for a small change that could open up a big idea.” It suggests that revenues from such a “public-private partnership” could be a partial solution to the millions of dollars in unfunded “deferred maintenance” liabilities facing Balboa Park.<\/p>\n That “big idea” is a prescription for disaster for both the public and Balboa Park. It is the city’s moral and legal obligation to properly maintain Balboa Park. This duty is non-delegable. Breaching this duty should never be used as justification to surrender parts of Balboa Park to non-park uses. Balboa Park could be converted to a commercial mall and revenue-producing site for multiple charter schools. Generating revenues is not the purpose for San Diego’s public parks.<\/p>\n We have urged\u00a0the City Council\u00a0to reject this proposal as wholly incompatible with both the critically important Charter protections now applicable to Balboa Park and other parkland, and to the moral and legal duty of this Committee, the City Council and the mayor\u2019s office to maintain, protect and defend this precious and unique public property from unneeded and unnecessary encroachment.<\/p>\n Existing park protective language in the Charter reads as follows at Article V, Section 55 of the current Charter:<\/p>\n “All real property owned in fee by the City heretofore or hereafter formally dedicated inperpetuity [sic] by ordinance of the Council or by statute of the State Legislature for park, recreation or cemetery purposes shall not be used for any but park, recreation or cemetery purposes without such changed use or purpose having been first authorized or later ratified by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors of the City voting at an election for such purpose. However, real property which has been heretofore or which may hereafter be set aside without the formality of an ordinance or statute dedicating such lands for park, recreation or cemetery purposes may be used for any public purpose deemed necessary by the Council.<\/em><\/p>\n Whenever the City Manager recommends it, and the City Council finds that the public interest demands it, the City Council may, without a vote of the people, authorize the opening and maintenance of streets and highways over, through and across City fee-owned land which has heretofore or hereafter been formally dedicated in perpetuity by ordinance or statute for park, recreation and cemetery purposes.”<\/em><\/p>\n We have proposed\u00a0this language be amended, clarified and strengthened to read as follows:<\/p>\n “All real property owned in fee by the City heretofore or hereafter formally dedicated in perpetuity by ordinance of the Council or by statute of the State Legislature for park, recreation or cemetery purposes and real property which has been heretofore or which may hereafter be set aside without the formality of an ordinance or statute dedicating such lands for park, recreation or cemetery purposes [hereinafter “parkland”] shall not be used for any but park, recreation or cemetery purposes without such changed use or purpose having been first authorized or later ratified by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors of the City voting at an election for such purpose.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The proponent of any non-park, recreation or cemetery use of parkland shall have the burden of first demonstrating by a preponderance of the evidence that such proposed use of parkland will affirmatively enhance and not diminish the free public park and recreational use and enjoyment of parkland, before such proposal may be authorized or later ratified by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors of the City voting at an election for such purpose. This predicate determination shall be made by the City Council,\u00a0 and shall be subject to de novo review by any Court having jurisdiction over parkland and subject matter.<\/em><\/p>\n The City Council may authorize the opening and maintenance of streets and highways over, through and across parkland [hereinafter “Streets and Highways Use”], provided the City Council shall have the burden of first making an affirmative finding supported by a preponderance of the evidence that such proposed Streets and Highways Use of Parkland will affirmatively enhance and not diminish the free public park and recreational use and enjoyment of Park Lands. This predicate determination shall be made by the City Council,\u00a0 and shall be subject to de novo review by any Court having jurisdiction over parkland and subject matter.”<\/em><\/p>\n This proposed amendment does the following to clarify, enhance and strengthen protections of park lands:<\/p>\n We understand the Charter Review is a process, involving all elements of city government and the public.<\/p>\n We hope these suggestions will assist in a process that ultimately will be successful to best preserve parkland for the next several generations of San Diego residents and visitors by both maintaining and strengthening existing Charter protections of scarce and increasingly precious parkland.<\/p>\n Please join us un this important effort. Contact us at LoveBalboaPark@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n David Lundin<\/em>
\nOficina de Cumplimiento de ADA de San Diego
\n1200 Tercera Avenida, Suite 924
\nSan Diego, CA 92101<\/p>\n
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\nOpen letter to Charter Review Committee about Balboa Park<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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