La Jolla News Nuggets: Music award nominee, LJCPA resignation, surveillance tech meeting, more
La Jolla musician Lissa Dee has been nominated for a San Diego Music Award in the Best Pop category, for which voting is now open.
Last year, Dee released a music video for her song “Empty Bottle,” which is intended to bring hope to people with mental health struggles.
Dee has participated in singing groups, piano lessons, and various bands. For five years, she was a member of San Diego indie rock band Blazing Jane, which performed all over the region, including at the La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, and recorded two albums.
Community Planning Association secretary resigns
Following the announcement of a new planning group that is challenging the La Jolla Community Planning Association for city of San Diego recognition as an official advisory group, Suzanne Baracchini, a leader of the new organization, has resigned from her position as LJCPA secretary.
The new La Jolla Community Planning Group says that if it is chosen for city recognition, it plans to boost member diversity and combine with LJCPA to preserve crucial institutional knowledge. It proposes board term limits shorter than LJCPA’s, night meetings to help boost attendance, electronic voting, and designating one board seat for a vice president of community outreach.
SDPD to simulcast surveillance technology meeting in La Jolla
To comply with the city of San Diego’s surveillance ordinance, the Police Department will hold a community meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 7, to share information about 10 of its technologies.
The meeting will be simulcast at the La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St.
The technologies being discussed include:
- Covert audio recording device
- Covert audiovisual recording device
- Motion-activated trail cameras
- Zoom video camera mobile units
- Digital video cameras and recorders
Learn more at sandiego.gov/police/technology.
San Diego is granted $29.9 million for homelessness solutions
The city of San Diego will continue tackling homelessness by supporting shelter space, outreach efforts, and housing programs with an additional $29.9 million grant from the state.
The city’s Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department worked with San Diego County and the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, which will be receiving their own allocations, to prepare a joint application.
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