Thanks school's out hungers not summer food drive at Albertson's and Vons throughout June Moore at San Diego Food Bank dot org about to look at our freeways as we approach 12 noon I can talk for k.p.s. San Diego City Council votes to put soccer city on the 2018 ballot what does that mean for the project the mayor supported for Qualcomm this is New Day edition. We'll talk to k b b s reporter Eric Anderson who sat through almost 5 hours of testimony on the Circus a new development Monday what options are still on the table then Today is World Refugee Day and San Diego can take credit for being a community that has absorbed thousands of asylum seekers and refugees people displaced from their own homes by war and violence plus our school children risk hunger more often than we care to know what schools are doing to meet the needs and Alison St John filling in for Maureen Cavanagh a p.b.s. Midday edition is next 1st this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying vice president Mike Pence is projecting that legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare will be enacted into law within months in a speech to a meeting of National Association of Manufacturers today Pence said President Trump would keep his promise on undoing Obamacare before the summer is over the Senate has been trying to do just that before the July 4th recess lawmakers have been meeting behind closed doors over fears protests from Democrats demanding more transparency from the g.o.p. At the White House today spokesman Sean Spicer said he was not sure how much the president knew about the bill being drafted by the g.o.p. I know the president has been on the phone extensively with the leader and with key senators so I don't know if he's seen the legislation or not but I know that they've been working extremely hard and the president has been giving his input nice ideas feedback to them and he's very excited about where this thing is headed Republicans are still trying to resolve differences on several fronts including on money for Medicaid tax credits and Planned Parenthood Georgia holds a special election today in a closely watched runoff to fill the congressional seat left vacant when Tom Price became Health and Human Services secretary for member station in Atlanta l e u has the latest the race between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat John Asaf in Atlanta's northern suburbs has become the most expensive house race ever at least $50000000.00 have poured into the contest Some see the 6 district races more than just one congressional seat voter Matt Reese cast his ballot early this morning I think it's it's definitely kind of a referendum on the way people see the national election almost more than a local election I think that's why a lot of people are kind of you know betting today more than a quarter of the districts registered voters have cast early ballots and overall turnout for a special election is expected to be high Democrats have been trying to flip the seat which has been held by Republicans for decades for n.p.r. News I'm Ellie. You in Atlanta today is World Refugee Day the United Nations says a record 65000000 people have been displaced worldwide are living in camps and unsure of their fate Joanna Kiss' reports her mental health is deteriorating about 14000 migrants are currently on Greek islands in the Aegean Sea waiting for asylum decisions some have been there for more than a year and that limbo has caused many to harm themselves says keep me highly though the lead psychologist with the International Rescue Committee he spoke via Skype from the island of the last bus cutting very popular among young people we've had incidents of people trying to drown themselves even see some attempt suicide an asylum is denied and they're due to be deported to Turkey which houses nearly $3000000.00 refugees the most in the world for n.p.r. News I'm Joanna casis in Athens this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. You're listening to us 89.5 f.m. San Diego and Vo 97.7 f.m. Calexico we are currently experiencing technical difficulties and apologize for the interruption of our broadcast schedule we will not go to the b.b.c. World Service until this issue. Will San Diego voters still get About the day also he was taken away well actually as I see as he was taken away I actually said well this will be the last we'll see are you know we also look very children are saying you know enough Serbs are the joke because we have a chance it will be possibly serious I just thought it was to go 3 breaking maybe you know the small points are not see him again the next 5 minutes don't have a 1000000 years would you ever think it was very heavy. So done and that was a moment you hoped you wouldn't live through Let's talk about when you met also that 1st night where you said to be. Well on those reviews of my age who are extremely vicious dog on a very very rich. Young man did you have any inkling of who the taking the band I was in his mind that's what he's accused of. You know not whatsoever never came up at any age takes over just the cancer survivorship of a pope Pope or seems most of it is aren't I mean we're going never no I will never know because obviously but always in each of those 2 people that buy that he did post Illinois some ways that. Will San Diego voters still get a chance to weigh in on the soccer city proposal the city council voted to postpone a ballot initiative this is K.B.'s midday edition. I'm Alison St John in for morning kavanah It's Tuesday June 20th our top story on midday yesterday was a pivotal day down at San Diego City Hall for discussions on the future of the Qualcomm Stadium site the city council had previously voted not to hold a special election this year which supporters of the proposed Soccer City Development had said was essential to secure a soccer franchise he. To tell us what the city council ultimately voted last night after almost 5 hours of testimony on the soccer city plan is K.B.'s reporter Eric and Eric thanks for coming in my pleasure so the city council had this basically 2 options to either approve the Soccer City project right or put it on the 2018 ballot and that's exactly what they did they put it on the 2018 ballot it was a unanimous vote by all the city council members but before they made that vote really kind of a riveting hearing a lot of people were in the council chambers yesterday making the case both for and against the Soccer City project in all Qualcomm Stadium site almost 5 hours of hearings almost 5 hours of testimony and there was a wide range of testimony there too but the manner of course had wanted to have it on a special election this year why did they decide not to do that well that's gets quite a bit more complicated I think than just a simple question it involves some funding there's some political maneuvering involved there as well but in the end they didn't vote on the special election yesterday but it was an interesting discussion during councilman Sherman's remarks he asked the city attorney specifically whether or not the special election idea had been completely eliminated and deputy city attorney Sharon speak of AK kind of explained exactly what the process is saying it wasn't completely eliminated depends on when the council would want an election to the city clerk and I would be working with any want to make such a proposal to ensure that the state statutes that govern how much time you must have before an election or Matt because there are deadlines at the state level for how far in advance of an election you need to call an election and what she seemed to say in her following remarks was that if the council decided some time before the end of July there was a chance that would still give them time to schedule an election before the end of this year how likely do you think that would be high I think that's something that the soccer city folks will pay. Pushed for they said as much after the meeting they said they were going to continue to work for that and of course what's pushing their deadline is this idea of Major League Soccer expansion Major League Soccer has said they want to expand by 4 teams 2 teams by the end of this year 2 teams at a further date Soccer City folks say that they need this voter support to build a stadium in order to be eligible for one of those expansion franchises and that's why the election this year is critical for their hopes so now you sat through all of this testimony was there anything that was noteworthy that perhaps you hadn't heard before that really struck you there were interesting tidbits you heard a lot of soccer friendly fans get up and say they love soccer they want to have soccer they see this as a great opportunity and then there were these interesting tidbits Gretchen Newson got up at one point speaking for Labor in San Diego they supported if you think back to measure c. Which was the Chargers stadium initiative they were on board in a very public about their support for that measure and she checked off a list of criticisms about this measure that were equally applied to bowl to measure c. Just a few short months ago something that they supported and this time around they they chose not to support that so that was kind of an interesting thing and you also got a chance to see a lot of the players who no doubt have been having some of these backroom communications but just to follow up on that there must have been some reason why labor decided not to support this what's the back story that well the back story that right now is that there's no. Labor agreement in advance of this deal there wasn't a project a labor agreement worked out with the labor unions where they got a certain percentage of the jobs or or the jobs agreed to meet certain labor standards and so that hasn't worked out so that's one reason why they're not on board Soccer City folks say they're willing to pay the prevailing wage. And they're willing to work with labor unions but it just hasn't translated into that particular agreement so now sending a state oppose the deal remind us about what it is they want that might actually come. Relation and the next you sure this was kind of an interesting part of the discussion as well San Diego State University not getting what they wanted they talked to fs investors for 2 years couldn't quite come to terms on it and you heard some of the frustration from the council member Scott Sherman whose district has Mission Valley and it seemed to be pretty frustrated with San Diego State University says that in his talks with them they would ask for one thing and then another thing let's hear a little bit of what he had to say on the dias to sit here and say that you want this open for public bidding when you are 2 months ago asking me for the exact opposite as hypocritical of best and ever in check by Cory the guy who gave us our pension deficit of 2000000000 dollars and the Chargers ticket guarantee in here and say he's the one who's going to tell us what's a really good deal sorry if I got a pass on that one. Scott Sherman talking about Jack McGrory who's the president of a camp and he'll Foundation which is a fundraising arm for San Diego State University and he has been critical of the fs investors project that he was there at the council meeting yesterday as well but you wanted to look at the Council as a body right all of the Democrats on the council have voted against holding the special election some holding up measure l some holding up the funding is an issue but I got a sense when I listened to what Chris Ward had to say councilman Chris Ward I got a sense from him that there was still some possibility for a resolution Here's what he said it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to chart San Diego's future for Mission Valley we must seriously consider and we should not foreclose the possibility of a mutually agreeable plan for the site that brings s.d.s. You and other stakeholders on board in the interest of expedience and I think that is still possible so he's telling us basically that if San Diego State University and Fs investors can come to terms that might be something that he would support moving forward so a lot of different ways this could go in the next 6 to 12 months Well it certainly wasn't resolved by the vote yesterday. I think that there is still some energy to be expended there will be a push for a special election on the city council by the end of this year and was kind of see where that goes we might find that out by the end of next month Eric thanks so much for filling us in My pleasure of k.b.s. Water Eric Anderson. Today we on a World Refugee Day It's estimated there are more than $65000000.00 refugees asylum seekers and displaced people worldwide that's well over the whole population of California San Diego has resettled more refugees relative to the size of its population than anywhere else in California and here to talk with us about what it's like to help a refugee resettle in San Diego is David Murphy who is executive director of the International Rescue Committee one of 4 refugee resettlement agencies here in San Diego they had Thanks very much for coming in thank you very much for having me today what are the largest refugee communities in San Diego What countries do they come from for the last 8 years Iraqis have been the number one population followed by Afghan Somali and Congo Allee's And just last year we started to see Syrians come in for the 1st time and last year for the for 2016 San Diego County received just over 4000 refugees from these 5 countries what makes sense a good place to resettle refugees you know one might ask the housing cost of housing here is very high why is it that this is a good place to bring refugees to resettle So the 1st common factor is just the family reunification So we want to have refugees come to words just unfair. We members are living so that they can acclimating quicker and easier that people speak the same language that there are local community groups there are churches and mosques that can help with the integration and eventually ploy meant that we try to find refugees as they integrate into their communities do you have some priorities talk a bit more about the priorities of how you choose from the millions of people who might be wanting to come which ones are actually going to end up coming here so again it is up to the u.s. Government to choose who will come in to the rip through the refugee program these are refugees nobody wants to be a refugee you are forced to be a refugee this whole program is a humanitarian program and so when they do come to the United States we try to have them come to the cities that they're going to be most successful acclimating into we need to get their kids enrolled in school so we need to make sure that the schools are staffed with language appropriate teachers that can acclimate into the classroom students So for example we would not want to bring in a student from Bhutan into a city that does not have any boonies refugees that etc etc Yes So they have some people they can relate to from your experience are there some cultures that find it easier to adapt to living in San Diego than others which which ones find it perhaps the most challenging. Right now we find that the refugees that come in from countries where there's already an existing population are finding it easier to acclimate into San Diego so in City Heights area there's a large Somali population so Somalis that come from Somalia find it easier to integrate in the same way with Iraqis that come out to alcohol in and out to East County they are finding it much easier to acclimate in so let's just talk a little bit about the vetting process I mean it sounds like it's terribly difficult to prioritize who would come but there are of course questions about how are refugees vetted how do you know that they are safe to come to live in San Diego . For a refugee to come they go through the most intensive background security vetting process of anyone that comes to the United States the u.s. Brings in more than a 1000000 people every year through different vsa program student visas work visas and there is no security vetting in place nobody wants to be a refugee you are forced to be a refugee and to come to the United States through the refugee program you are the most thoroughly security vetted person to come to the United States a refugee has had to close the chapter in their life they've had to leave their life behind them and now have a new opportunity to come to America to start a new life and this is what we find most refugees want to fully embrace life in America and have a better life for their children we heard on n.p.r. This morning that there are a lot of mental health issues in the refugee camps and that many of the children even are experiencing p.t.s.d. How do the sending of schools specifically deal with that we're finding that many refugees expression the Syrians come in our face seen p.t.s.d. They have experienced a lot they have witnessed a lot expression of the children and we don't initially identify when they 1st arrive there are so many things going on moving to a new country new apartment new school but after the dust settles that's when the p.t.s.d. Begins to manifest out this is where we depend on the schools to help us the county mental health and there's also other foundations non-profits like Survivors of Torture here in San Diego that we will refer clients to to help with us give us a sense of how long on average it if there is such a thing as an average it would take for refugees to actually go through that incredibly difficult cultural transition and learn enough English to actually go out and find a job and become self-sufficient in our community we find the average refugee family takes to the. 5 years before they're fully integrated into life in America they have stable employment their kids are doing well in school it doesn't happen quickly but this is where organizations like the ira see help them acclimate and their refugee camps where thousands of Somalis are are living and many of them I understand are actually perhaps risking being sent back to the war torn countries what do those refugees face if they are sent back home. Many refugees face death if they go back home whether it's an Iraqi that worked for the u.s. Government that would then go back to Iraq or if it's a Somali refugee that has to go back to Mogadishu they will face and a very uncertain future and very much possible death you have an event tonight a believe that actually highlights that can you talk a bit about that so the International Rescue Committee is hosting our 9th Annual International Film Series at the Landmark Theater tonight at 7 o'clock tonight we will be showing warehoused which is a movie about Somali refugees in the dark refugee camp in Kenya their story about being a refugee in the camp and also resettlement to the United States followed by a spy Somali speaker that's David Murphy who is executive director of the International Rescue Committee here in San Diego David thank you very much for coming in thank you very much for having me today. Still ahead many unsuspecting California home buyers are caught by surprise by many taxes levied on their homes turns out homeowners would do well to check up on how they're being spent That's coming up after news headlines. And good afternoon I'm Tom fudge in the k. P.b.s. . Newsroom bicycling to work for exercise is a good thing it saves fossil fuels and burns calories in city planners are making bicycling safer with bike lanes and bike paths but Cheryl Clarke with our media partner a news source found a downside to the trend every California hospital reports to the state all patients treated there each year because of a bicycle injury and those reports show that over the last decade injuries to children and teens have dropped relative to population officials are already Children's Hospital say that at least in part that's probably because of safe cycling programs targeting parents and school age kids but injuries involving seniors have climbed and those injuries tend to be more serious often requiring a hospital admission Dr Michael syces a trauma surgeon and Scripps Mercy's chief of staff he sees how seriously the cyclists get hurt Well it is true that as we age we lose bone mass We're not as resilient and so particularly older women older men too are more likely to get fractures from the same trauma that a younger person wouldn't get a fracture doctor says thinks part of the increase is due to more older cyclists who lost their driver's licenses this isn't all sport riders there's an awful lot of folks who used bicycles for transportation Some of them because they can't afford cars others because they've lost their licenses and up to 25 percent or more of our bike crash victims were on drugs or alcohol when they crashed I'm sure Will Clark with I new source I new source is an independent nonprofit partner of k. P.b.s. In other news Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will have a discussion draft of a bill scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law by Thursday his comments Tuesday came amid growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week Senator John McCain says Americans who are quote stupid enough to still want to travel to North Korea should. He required to sign a waiver absolving the u.s. Government of blame if they are harmed McCain the chairman of the Armed Services Committee said North Korea murdered auto warm beer the 22 year old American college student died just days after North Korea released him from detention in a coma Senator Bob Corker says the u.s. Should consider banning travel to the reclusive nation. The u.s. Military has confirmed it killed a top Islamic state cleric in an airstrike Central Command said Tuesday that tour of all the knowledge was killed on May 31st activists in ISIS supporters reported his death at the time but the military is now is only now confirming it and election official in Georgia's most populous county says he's aiming to have final results by 11 pm Tuesday in Georgia's closely watched congressional special election with that it's time to go to the Weather Channel a patchwork of heat advisories and excessive heat warnings continue to blanket much of southern California as the heat wave continues hot dry weather for most areas right on through the rest of the week in fact today and tomorrow will probably be the worst of the heat wave as we're going to see temperatures in the desert running anywhere between 115 and 120 this afternoon ninety's for the end lead valleys but we could see a few spots approaching $105.00 degrees like areas in and around campus lower eighty's will be found along the immediate coast and a little bit of a bump in the humidity there as we continue to deal with just a very shallow marine layer that's going to continue to influence the temperatures along the coast will see ratings in the sixty's and seventy's tonight some eighty's in the desert and another database tomorrow with temperatures in the end valleys and foothills expected to be between 90 and 105 desert locations between 115 and 120 cooler upper seventy's and low eighty's will be found on the coast Richard weather get the Weather Channel and now it's time to go to Scott bass for the surf report Good afternoon we've got similar shall swell to yesterday a north breeze at 8 mph to do ease our parting 1.4 feet of 16 2nd energy from 210 degrees to the surface 2 to 3 feet I'm calling it need high with occasional waist high plus waves even if you larger shoulder high waves at prime locations such as Little Boy Yeah. Up into Oceanside and farther north Shannon Frey and trust low tide is at 12 20 pm a 1.2 then it flows in fast at 7 pm It's a 6.0 The ocean is 6070 even 69 degrees in many areas and the forecast is calling for steeply angled southeast swell to fill in tomorrow it will bypass 90 percent of the county bigger served up in the Santa Fe and troubles area and on Friday we see a Southwest swell more of the need to wage types last served through the weekend better afternoon support for k. P.b.s. Radio I'm Scott bass and I'm Tom fudge p.b.s. News p.b.s. Is supported by seeding San Diego San Diego's can help fuel summer for children facing hunger through their organized distribution model Every dollar donated provides for meals learn more at feeding San Diego dot org core systems partnering with Hewlett Packard enterprise to offer a fully ruggedized line of pro lion to Gen 9 servers soon expanding to Gen 10 learn more about core systems rugged h b e servers at core dash systems dot com. 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I'm Alison St John in for morning kavanah if you own a home in Carlsbad San Marcos or eastern Chula Vista there's a good chance you're paying Manning Bruce taxes there are special taxes intended to pay for capital projects such as new roads and schools how much homeowners actually pay very strong district to district and even among neighbors with some people paying hundreds of dollars more compared to someone just a few blocks away reporter Leonardo Castor Neda with media partner I new source explains if you're Guerrero's military contractor and Navy veteran he bought a home in the eastern 2 of us the neighborhood of San Miguel ranch in 2010 at the time he knew he was buying a beautiful home in a quiet neighborhood a stone's throw from an elementary school and near a well respected high school what he didn't know was that he was also buying into a Mello Roos district and this was a foreclosed home so the bank can explain anything to us the realtors and explaining to us Guerrero is not alone in San you will County one in every 10 properties is in that least one Melrose district and those homeowners have paid almost $1000000000.00 collectively in the roost taxes over the last 5 years communities I have built new housing since the 1980 s. Have some of the highest concentrations of Miller rues in San Diego county that includes Altay ranch in East Lake in chill of Mr Worth and Marcos and Valley Center with the help of the few resources he could find mostly the Internet and a handful of knowledgable community members Guerrero started researching his tax bill in 2012 he found a confusing law with limited auditing and oversight requirements understanding it was harder than learning how to fly the military helicopters he flew in the Navy at least with aviation learned how to fly planes and helicopters there's a book in the structure and the. Teachers instructors I teach you and there's mentors out there that come and help you here never lost here some a ruse often works now developer who wants to build a house in files paperwork to create a community facilities district the official name of the mellow roots because the developer owns the land the developer the size whether or not to impose a new tax on that land the money collected from the new homeowners is supposed to pay for the infrastructure associated with the new development in San Diego County Malibu's money has been pledged towards new high schools and essential a Vista park maintenance in San Marcos and a new city hall complex in Carlsbad than 1902 law was written with few guidelines on how the new taxes should be administered there is far less oversight and transparency for Miller is Texas that's Rob Gutierrez he's the director of state and local finance for the California taxpayers association he said there's also not a lot of consistency in Melrose taxes which can affect how much people pay for example in Oceanside $1.00 Miller ruse charged in the average of almost 7000 dollars for property and 2015 Meanwhile Miller reducing the cost but Unified School District charged an average of just under $24.00 That same year good here is said that lack of consistency and limited oversight means it's time to take another look at the law you know after nearly 40 years it's time for the legislature to come back and read trash how partial Texas or Maryland restructures work for his part Guerrero the homeowner pays Melrose taxes for the city water Union High School and the Chula Vista Elementary school districts those school districts have a combined average Miller who's tax of more than 1400 dollars last year Guerrero said he understands the need for Melrose taxes and is happy supporting his neighborhood schools but he would also like to see changes to the mother roots law to make sure the money is used properly that could include the citizens oversight committee keeping an eye on how the money is. Spent Now Ruth should have something like that have a yearly audit just like all the propositions I have just like our taxes have I'm reportedly another cast and yet I with my new source and Leo castigated joins us now so Leo thanks for coming in thanks for having me so why is it that we actually have memories Texas in the 1st place here in California memories goes back to Prop 13 and the great tax revolt of California of the late 1970 s. That cut a lot of people's property tax bill but it also made it difficult for the cities and school districts or for the infrastructure associated with your house you know schools roads sewers parks so what they did is they found the work around the special tax that still allow them to tax new developments do other states have this kind of tax know it's California exclusive and that's you know something I've heard from people who have owned a home in you know Texas or Virginia they get to California and they're confronted by this thing that they have no idea how to how to understand Yes I mean where does the name come from do you know batteries yes or the name comes from these 2 legislatures Henry Mellon and Mark Reuss and they got together and came up with this and it has their legacy now in a lot of ways now who actually gets the money I mean is it the developer or is it the local jurisdiction where the lead development is yeah that's a great question that actually goes to kind of a partnership the developer will go to the city or the school district and say we want to build all this new housing but you know we understand that there's associated costs so we will approve the tax or homeowners will pay the tax and then that money will be managed by that you know specific city or specific school district or in some cases you know small fire protection agency so that's something that you have is where you have very small agencies managing a ton of tax money so it's not the developer because the developer could go out of business it's the local jurisdiction that then manages it and can the tax be. Changed without a vote does it or does it just go up every year like property taxes how does that work Yeah so they generally and you know again there's one of the problems is that there's a ton of different varieties but they do generally go up you know 2 percent about 2 percent a year to keep up with inflation they can be in theory restricted or cut back and so they can fluctuate but generally they increase to 3 percent every year but if your houses have been developed that starting amount could go up 567 percent every year so you know if you if you buy your house of your houses 5 years newer than your neighbor you might be paying 2030 percent more than they are Wow Ok so presumably legally the purchaser has to be informed as to what these taxes are but it may not be till towards the end of their purchasing process that's right so they'll they'll know that the realtor is legally required to tell them this is a Melrose district this is what Miller says is you know you will be paying this amount what a lot of people are concerned about is that very information of that and this is something that will be exploring people have an idea if you know there's a high school down the street from me I'm paying Mel Reuss then this money is going to this high school and what we found is that that's not always the case is something we'll be exploring in the future is how the how that money once it comes into the hands of these agencies how it's actually being spent now a while back I new source investigation that humanitarian found that some of the homeowners were overpaying their mellows taxes. Is that why some believes that there really we need more oversight and transparency of these taxes that's right back then and 2014 reporters here and users looked at the part of the city of San Diego but part of the power Unified School District and they found that some homeowners were being overbilled because in some document somewhere it said Their house was much bigger than it actually was and because of the way these taxes are assess that. Based on just your square footage and if that's wrong then the whole thing is off and what they also found is that a lot of this money was seen as kind of a slush fund and the district was using it for you know cafeteria signs grades to district offices things like that that weren't there were maybe legal but now what people thought their money was going to be used for so tell us a little bit more about this map you've created an interactive map of which areas are paying what and mellower is that right that's right so you can go on our map and users Auto Slash taxes in putting your address and see how much you're paying how much you've paid over the last 5 years and the breakdown of where your money is actually going because you know like a recent story multiple sometimes people paying 2567 different Melrose's tricks so really understanding where that division is says I think for people getting their finances really under control do you have any advice for people coming and buying in San Diego for the 1st time who find they are paying those taxes what should they check up on well one thing that I've heard from homeowners who arrive and you know would you buy this again would you do it again now knowing what you now know and they would say they'd be a lot more careful and they would look at that will save my money is going to this school district Well I'm going to go to that school district and see what are they doing for transparency are they do they have a budget for their mail Roosevelt have passed expenditures which school is my money going to so do you know a lot more along our diligence Yeah due diligence but it's you know above and beyond what I think a lot of homeowners are used to doing or have to do outside of Mel or is this tricks. Ok Thanks so much for shedding some light on this thank you that's Leo custom made out of k b b s partner I new source and by the way you can find a Melrose interactive map at my new source dot org slash taxes. Anyone who's visited the Salton Sea in the desert about 160 miles east of San Diego knows what an interesting place it is it's vital for thousands of migrating birds and in the 1950 s. It was a thriving tourist destination but now it's struggling with increasing salinity and major fish die offs plus some unhealthy air quality issues this month as a series of public meetings to provide information and get public input on a 10 year management plan my guest is Luis on NATO who's the executive director of coming. Luis thank you for joining us I always said thank you for having me give us a bit of background on what's been happening recently to deal with the challenges you're facing at the Salton Sea The fact that there's knowledge of the sea over the years is just as so if he has increased you know both because of the many faults that are derived from just the industry their culture industry the water in flows that are coming in from a goal that also carries out of course the runoff but now that water go city has become such a problem with recent droughts the water transfers are now going to be diverting water that would have gone to the south of the sea to maintain the seabed coverage now it's been diverted to San Diego and metropolitan water that there's just less and less water coming into the sea yes so you are at the beginning of a 10 year management plan tell us what the goals of that plan are the goal of it is to deal with the short term issues of the exposed feedback the department. Natural resources as put together this plan that will help mitigate the rapid increase of explosives this is as a result waters that is going to the south and sea right now through conservation efforts through following a line that's going to stop as of to the end of 2017 and so water will now be diverted and nobody in water will go to the south and see this is going to increase the the exposed areas in a much rapid pace so this 10 year plan is for a short term response to dealing with these exposed areas as well as habitat areas so the 10 year plan does give a roadmap of how they're going to mitigate these new exposed areas how can you mitigate that the farm and natural resources. Right the strategies and then they went out and met with many stakeholders you know within their own departments with experts and came up with with various perhaps you know one is projects that are depending on water like shallow water habitat but other projects as well that may be may not be dependent waterless projects that that will 'd also deal with the exposed areas so that they are not emit so there's a variety of strategies that not all strategies are dependent on water what's the purpose of your community meetings so these committee meetings are to increase the participation of the community so Morgan station. Has in pretty active in Sacramento and in here locally as well but what we're trying to do is really increase the participation of the community. One of our biggest concerns is that this problem has existed for decades and upon decades the local community which is made up most of disadvantaged low income many times harder to reach populations has not participated and we've had this ecological pressure in our backyard but historically this has not been area that has been visited or is very well known by our local communities now we're dealing with the with this issue of this exposed sea bed that is made. A potentially very hazardous toxic particulates and our biggest concern is to make sure that the already vulnerable population has an opportunity to be involved and to have firsthand all the information they need 1st of all to participate and bring in their concerns but also to have knowledge of how the Mrs is going to interact with our community and it could potentially affect health so what kind of things are you hoping will be accomplished by this management plan there's a lot of knowledge in our own communities that may not necessarily be known to stay level lot of times these plants are the signs and develop to deal with habitat and wildlife deal with the shrinking sea itself and from an economic landscape but for the communities here really that one of their major concerns is how is it going to affect their health and what can they do to mitigate the say issues prior to this most recent 10 year plan public health was not really on. The radar it was something that was sort of an afterthought it was all about just dealing with the sea and shrinking conditions but I think now the state has taken a more serious approach to dealing with public health and that we're not to happen in the community and local advocates and organizations we're going to Sacramento and making sure that this became a priority so part of these workshops are to make sure that they that they're being held in the communities that otherwise might have barriers such as language barriers transportation barriers right and specifically what kind of feedback have you heard in the 1st 2 shots what do people want to see happen around the films the public is asking about whether the state is going to provide health care for example there have been others who feel that that it's a good step in the right direction there's others who feel it's not enough and a bit too late so there's a wide range of comments out there you know and at least in our efforts. We're trying to bring in more comment from the community and in different perspectives of us are well it'll be interesting to see what comes out in the next few weeks of these meetings on the stand as one in Brawley on Thursday they run through July 12th and we'll have a link on our website as to when and where they are so I'd like to thank you very much Louise for putting us in the picture thank you notes and for having me thank you that was Luis Olmedo executive director of coming. Stay with us still ahead school is out for the summer but thousands of students risk going hungry without school lunches So school districts all over San Diego County launching summer meals programs out in the community reaching out to families who may not know about the programs and inviting them to come the time is told 47 and you're listening to k p b s midday edition. P.b.s. 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F.m. a Public service of San Diego State University leadership starts here you're listening to midday edition on K.B.'s I'm Alison St John in for morning kavanah school's out and that means no more classes no more homework and no more free lunches except that most school districts actually do keep providing free lunches because children can thrive over the summer without homework but too many of them will go hungry food insecurity as it's called is much more common than we like to imagine in San Diego the number of students who qualify for free school lunches has increased by 17 percent in the last 2 years here to talk about this we have Robin McNulty who is school meals program director at the San Diego hunger coalition Robin thank you for coming in of course thank you and also Jamie Philips director of Child Nutrition Services at Vista Unified School District Jamie thanks for being with us. Thank you for having me today so Robyn let's start with you how do we know that the children might go hungry if they don't have this summer school lunch program because a recess search has shown that one in 5 kids don't receive enough to eat that's about 164000 children and this is research through the San Diego hunger coalition as well as many of our other into hunger partners throughout the state and also the nation that is a lot of children how many families are taking advantage of this free school lunch program over the summer you know not as many as we would like we know that there are only about 27 percent of the children that qualify 1st free and reduced meals during the school year take part in the summer so that 73 percent of children that are eligible are not taking part Ok Well we'll we'll talk a little bit more about why that might be in a moment but I want to bring you in Jamie and ask you for people who come to the program that is happening today what can they expect what would they what would they see so today for we're actually having an event over at the Boys and Girls Club what the students will receive there is a chicken salad they receive one of our fresh fruits and I think today we're doing local strawberries from Monza Leiria salaries and carrots along with the juice amount. Another thing that's very key to us as we try to relay the message to everybody that you know whether you're free or reduced or paid you can come on for free with us so that then there is no stigma behind like oh do have to worry about that you you're going to be taken care of we're going to feed you no matter what if you're under 18 or 18 or under and you mentioned that is that the Boys and Girls Club not at the school why is that so what we do is we want to reach out to as many people as possible so we actually offer the Boys and Girls Club various school sites and also lose drownd park so we're always looking to expand and try to find ways where we can get to the community to help them out do you have an estimate of how many students in the Vista Unified School District qualify for free or reduced school lunches so. Currently for free or reduced We have approximately $14000.00 students that qualify and how many of them in historically show up for that for the summer lunch program so last year our 1st weeks we had approximately about 1050 students a day this year for our 1st week we had a about $1400.00 per day so we're actually that can increase reactions he added a couple of sites this year to try to bring in more participation reach areas where students might not want to or might not normally be able to get food at. So Robin tell us a little bit more about why you think so many families are not taking advantage of this program you would have thought hunger would be a strong motivator you would and it certainly is if families know about where they can go to get these meals and fortunately our school districts are a trusted source of information for families they really resonate with official information coming from their schools they also utilize Facebook to get the messaging but again they tell us time and time again that they're unaware of where their meals are they also are having transportation issues to get there and they like to take their children to places for meals where there are activities so that's why it's great to know that Vista is really stepping up this year and having this great program at the Boys and Girls Clubs to build the awareness and opening more sites when possible and county wide our school districts all over San Diego County looking for you know new locations for these programs they absolutely our school districts are wonderful partners they are in the business you know to feed the children a look at opportunities and so over the years they've partnered with their local park and racks also partnering with some other community organizations such as boys and girls clubs in the Y.M.C.A.'s and also opening their schools up so that children who may not be enrolled at a particular school site would be eligible to come in and have these free meals in the summertime I know that schools are seen as like a safe place for kids that there are there's been some policies with a unified school district for example saying they would not allow any law enforcement onto the campus so that a student who comes on campus can feel they're safe from someone coming in saying hey you're not here legally you don't have the right papers you might get deported Does that still hold true over the summer of course it does we've had the opportunity to do some focus groups with some undocumented. Members of different families who qualify for free mean to use meals and they tell us that they are constantly concerned about the current administration and actually you know raids and whatnot but schools are areas where they feel safe and when they can again get this information at a school site or within a city that they know it's available for everyone they feel safer going in those places so Jamie do you have a sense that deportation fears are a big issue for some of your students I mean there's always that concern that's why we do promote it just for everybody for 18 and under review for make sure that everybody in the community can come out and enjoy a meal and then there is nobody there's no way to identify anybody whether they be free or reduced or paid so hopefully that gets rid of any fear for anybody that's coming out because they don't have to worry about any kind of applications or any kind of paperwork no this is only one of the programs that are available for families that x. Are experiencing what we call food insecurity right Robin there's there's also cow fresh for example known as food stamps talk about why this program is important for really getting the kids the the food they need because it is modeled after what they're used to having in the school lunches you know there are some different foods that are available as Jamie had mentioned they had lots of fresh local produce which is just something our children love to know that it's available for them these sites are you know follow the same kind of regulations for everything that they do to keep children safe as they would within their school district so this is I believe like $220.00 sites throughout San Diego County that provide these free meals where there's no sign up no registration or anything like that so children who are 18 years and younger in go to these sites and receive a free meal Ok And it's funded by the u.s. Department of Agriculture is there any concern that that program might get cut under the new administration. There always is some concern but we're pretty do have such a large need and the n.t. Hunger going to is a sions along with the School Nutrition Association are monitoring everything that is coming out of d.c. That has to do with the child Reauthorization Act and the farm bill. Thank you so much that's Robin McNulty is schools meals program director San Diego hunger Coalition thank you Robin thank you and Jamie Philips who's director of Child Nutrition at Vista Unified School District thanks for being with us Jamie thanks for having me we've got a link on our k. P.b.s. Web story of the mill site locations and also a number that you can text to get information on the site in your neighborhood. Be sure to watch K.V.'s evening edition at 5 and 630 tonight on p.b.s. Television and join us again tomorrow Ok p.b.s. 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