Tag: City of Santee

Santee Mayor John Minto and members of the Santee Community Oriented Policing Committee spent the majority of Monday’s 30-minute meeting discussing the newly created Unity and Inclusion subcommittee. The ad hoc subcommittee was initially created at a Sept. 14 meeting when Minto said ‘the COMPOC is extremely broad in scope,’ that he planned to create the subcommittee to discuss diversity...

By Mike Ranson “We want the people to have a vote on Fanita Ranch.  The developer wants to build 3000 homes in Santee and enough is enough!  Will you sign this petition to put Fanita Ranch on the ballot?” In 2018, that is exactly what one of my neighbors said to me when I answered her knock at the front door. ...

City leaders turned the spotlight on local government in a Sept. 14 Community Oriented Policing Committee meeting that focused almost entirely on inclusion, diversity and better communication between staff members. Santee City Manager Marlene Best said staff had an opportunity to discuss how protests held in the community over summer affected employees. “Out of that, we had a good conversation with...

Stephen Houlahan is running a grass-roots level campaign to serve as the next mayor of Santee, not unlike the low-budget campaign he ran to land his current seat on Santee’s city council, a win he said in 2017 was probably shocking but ‘grassroots is everything’. This time, he’s aiming to oust incumbent Mayor John Minto with a similar approach. “My campaign...

An Aug. 12 Santee City Council meeting heralded several comments from attendees about the Fanita Ranch project during time set aside for non-agenda item public comments. The as-yet-unbuilt development has gone through some revisions since. Santee was incorporated in 1980 and plans were first drawn up, but the current plan generally includes new homes with various levels of size and...

A Wednesday Santee City Council meeting heralded several comments from attendees about the Fanita Ranch project during time set aside for non-agenda item public comments. The as-yet unbuilt development has gone through some revisions since Santee was incorporated in 1980 and plans were first drawn up, but the current plan generally includes new homes with various levels of size and scope, some community facilities such...

Santee Mayor John Minto and several members present for the monthly Santee Community Oriented Policing Committee meeting on Monday discussed ways they could better identify the purpose of the group and more effectively connect with the community. The committee, which was formed in 1996, exists to make recommendations to the City Council regarding crime prevention, drug awareness, education programs, Neighborhood...

Dozens of candidates for local, state and federal offices have recently been qualified to appear on election day ballots. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of California has mandated that every registered voter receive a mail-in ballot. Ballots will be mailed beginning Oct. 5. Voters will still be able to cast their ballots at local polling places....

By Mike Ranson Home Fed’s Fanita Ranch project will be coming before the Santee City Council at the end of August.  If you are a Santee resident, you already know many of the details of the Home Fed Fanita Ranch plan, so I won’t spend time writing about that plan here. Instead, in an effort to understand all options, I...

Justin Haskins said a Defend East County rally he organized July 18 was about creating a community. “I want to distance myself from race politics,” the Santee resident said after he stepped away from where several hundred people were mustering alongside their vehicles at the Cameron YMCA in Santee on Saturday morning. Country music poured out from a portable speaker while...