Santee dog shelter uses German Shepherds to test noise
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“In order to provide a worst-case assessment of dog barking noise levels, the German Shepherd bark noise level of 101 [A-weighted decibels] was utilized for this assessment,” read an environmental review report prepared for San Diego County’s proposed 24,000-square-foot animal shelter in Santee.
KPBS donor sick-out
It’s been a bad year for the KPBS broadcasting stations, the public television and FM radio operation run by San Diego State University, per a newly released financial statement and report for the fiscal year ending this past June by accountant
Grant Thornton. Direct “financial costs of COVID-19 for KPBS totaled approximately $835,000 and include Underwriting and Membership cancellations, operational expense increases and capital equipment expenditures,” says the November 20 report. “Such costs were partially offset by a $275,000 unrestricted grant distributed by the Corporation for Public Br