Tag: El Cajon City Council
El Cajon City Council unanimously approved the Parks and Recreation Department to move forward with four grant requests for one new park, the refurbishing one other park and two community centers on March 9. Director of Parks and Recreation Frank Carson said the grants are a 15 part application and fall under the City’s Proposition 68, which authorized $4...
In El Cajon, the City’s annual payments to CalPERS would increase from $16.7 million in 2022 to $20.8 million in 2031. Even with the City’s AA bond rating and solid reserves, the ability to meet this significant increase posed a challenge to El Cajon’s fiscal health. The El Cajon City Council and staff began exploring solutions in the use...
El Cajon District three incumbent Steve Goble said “People ask me, after four years, do you still enjoy it? And, I say ‘Absolutely’.”
The biggest need right now in El Cajon, he said, is ensuring local businesses survive COVID-19 pandemic.
“We don’t have general fund money to give and just yesterday we pointed out we’re going to be short over four...
Dunia Shaba talks passionately of her love of education, born out of experience living in Iraq while working under United States Army General David Patraeus in Iraq from 2005-2009. The former Department of Defense contractor is now running for El Cajon City Council.
“I’ve been all over the Middle East, United Arab Emirates, Doha and when I came here it...
Billy Thigpen is a career educator with a background in social services running to represent District 4 on the El Cajon City Council. His opponents are Phil Ortiz as well as Dunia Shaba and Estela De Los Rios.
Thigpen, 42, said he’s done a lot in his life but this is a whole new world he is navigating.
Citing his family’s...
