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O’side taxes help homeless
April 24, 2026
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Measure X funds eyed for new services
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By Leo Place
OCEANSIDE — The city of Oceanside is proposing a $21.5 million spending plan for its Measure X sales tax revenue in the upcoming budget year, with the addition of new programs including a nonlaw enforcement homeless outreach team, mobile health services for police officers, and additional traffic and e-bike enforcement. Measure X is a half-cent sales tax first approved in 2018 and extended by voters for another 10 years in 2024. Tax revenue funds public safety, road improvements, infrastructure, free youth programs, and homeless services. The Oceanside City Council reviewed the Measure X spending plan at an April 15 budget workshop. A new program proposed for Measure X funding is a homeless outreach program made up of case managers and social workers, which will replace the Oceanside Police Department’s current Homeless Outreach Team, or HOT. The Homeless Evaluation, Assistance and Resource Team, or HEART, will kick off in May before the start of the next fiscal year on July 1. Oceanside will allocate $200,000 from Measure X for the program this fiscal year, followed by $400,000 in 2026-27 and each of the subsequent eight years. HEART will include two social workers currently involved in HOT, who will be reassigned, as well as outreach workers in the library, all of whom the city contracts through Interfaith Community Services. Police officers involved in HOT will be reassigned to the city’s crime supTURN TO MEASURE X ON 29
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San Dieguito Academy woodshop teacher Jeff Germano operates a vertical panel saw at the newly upgraded workshop. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
San Dieguito Academy unveiled $5 million upgrades to its wood and metal shops, giving students at the Encinitas school modern tools and hands-on pathways into trade and engineering careers. Story on 3.
Poway sued over tribal remains at site By City News Service
POWAY — The California Attorney General’s Office and the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians are suing the city of Poway for allegedly allowing a housing development project to proceed on a site where ancestral human remains and other tribal cultural items were discovered. A pair of lawsuits filed this week alleges that Poway has violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to conduct a new environmental review of the Hidden Valley Ranch project site following multiple discoveries of bones and other THE SITE of the proposed Hidden Valley Ranch development in Poway. tribal resources. The project has drawn scrutiny following the discovery of ancestral The attorney general’s law- remains and tribal cultural resources. Courtesy photo
suit alleges that the city certified an environmental impact report for the project in 2003 but failed to adopt mitigation measures to account for the possibility that cultural items might be found on-site. Between the EIR’s certification and the city’s authorization to begin construction, more than 8,000 tribal cultural resources have been found at the site, such as tools and pottery fragments, according to the attorney general’s lawsuit, which said, “The public was never notified of the significance of those findings, which greatly exceeded the findTURN TO POWAY ON 23
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