San Diego Chargers President Dean Spanos will accept Mayor Kevin Faulconer\u2019s request that the two men meet to discuss how the mayor can help keep the Chargers in San Diego, team special counsel Mark Fabiani said Feb. 18.
\nMeanwhile, a mayoral task force exploring where and how to build a new Chargers stadium announced it will host a public forum from 6 to 9 p.m. on March 2 in one of Qualcomm Stadium\u2019s large club lounges.
\nOn Feb. 17, Faulconer requested a private meeting with Spanos after characterizing recent criticism of the task force by Fabiani as “divisive” and something that could “undermine” the work of the volunteer panel of civic leaders.
\nThe announcement of the public forum comes after some critics said the nine-member task force, appointed Jan. 30, would risk losing public support if it held its meetings in private and didn\u2019t include ordinary San Diegans in the process.
\nEfforts to solve the Chargers\u2019 13-year pursuit of a new stadium took on a greater sense of urgency this winter, when a new Los Angeles stadium proposal made the threat of San Diego losing the team appear larger than ever.
\nFabiani said Feb. 18 that Spanos is open to any kind of meeting the mayor wants.
\n“Whatever the mayor would like to do, it doesn\u2019t really matter to us,” Fabiani said, noting that the men have met multiple times before. “We\u2019ve always been available whenever he\u2019s asked, whether it was with Dean or with me. We certainly don\u2019t anticipate that changing.”
\nWhile no date has been set, a Faulconer spokesman said Feb. 18 that the mayor hopes the meeting can happen quickly.
\n“Mayor Faulconer looks forward to meeting with Mr. Spanos in the next few days to discuss how to chart a positive course moving forward,” said the spokesman, Matt Awbrey.
\nU-T San Diego<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Diego Chargers President Dean Spanos will accept Mayor Kevin Faulconer\u2019s request that the two men meet to discuss how the mayor can help keep the Chargers in San Diego, team special counsel Mark Fabiani said Feb. 18. Meanwhile, a mayoral task force exploring where and how to build a new Chargers stadium announced it […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":294182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Spanos, Faulconer to meet; public forum on Chargers stadium set","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12360,11560,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duplicate","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294183","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=294183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}