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DeMaio Outlines Major Job Creation Strategies in His “Pathway to Prosperity” Plan
After months of holding Job Creation Summits, examining best practices from cities across the nation, and soliciting advice from local business leaders, City Councilmember Carl DeMaio today released an 86-page Pathway to Prosperity Job Creation Plan which spells out 112 ideas to streamline city regulations and launch a number of initiatives to create and keep jobs in San Diego. …
DeMaio Releases “Welcome Home Plan” To Help Veterans Transition to Jobs
As a proud military town with a large population of service members and veterans, San Diego must be a city committed to ensuring our veterans are successfully employed upon leaving the military and entering the civilian workforce. There were roughly 200,000 more veterans in the labor force this June than there were a year earlier, according to the Bureau of …
Redevelopment Ruling is Worst Possible Outcome
Today’s ruling by the California Supreme Court was the worst possible outcome – as it completely eliminates redevelopment agencies and undermines our ability to invest in economically distressed neighborhoods. Today’s decision may also impact the city’s General Fund by more than $15 million a year – requiring additional cuts in our day-to-day budget. This decision goes against the will of …
DeMaio Forms Retirement Security Task Force to Guide Transition From City’s Old Pension System
Says City Officials Must Be Ready to “Hit the Ground Running” on Pension Reforms in 2012 Carl DeMaio today announced the creation of a “Retirement Security Task Force” to provide ideas to city officials on how to “expeditiously and properly” implement sweeping changes in city employee pension programs. “This task force of outside experts will provide valuable advice on how …
DeMaio Requests to Hear Water Department Billing & Customer Service Problems
I released the following memo yesterday requesting the NR&C committee to hear about customer service problems at the water department. As elected leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure that taxpayers and ratepayers receive the level of customer service that they deserve, and we are currently not measuring up. MEMORANDUM DATE: December 13, 2011 TO: Councilmember David Alvarez — Chair, Natural Resources …
DeMaio to Outline Importance of Cyber Security to San Diego’s Economy
Speech at Cyber Security Summit to Emphasize Opportunities to Create and Secure Jobs What: Councilmember DeMaio will be speaking at the Cyber Security Summit being held by the non-profit organization “Securing Our eCity” on the importance of training small business owners on securing their networks. “Securing our Ecity” is a non-profit organization that provides awareness of potential online issues and …
DeMaio to be Keynote Speaker at Conference on Using Public-Private Partnerships to Deliver City Services
DeMaio’s Years of Experience in Public-Private Partnerships Highlighted at Conference What: Councilmember DeMaio will be the keynote speaker at the “Public-Private Partnership Masters Training Institute Conference.” This conference brings together highly trained professionals with billions of dollars in project experience in public-private partnerships.DeMaio has long been the most vocal proponent of public-private partnerships at City Hall and recently released a …
Help Support San Diegans in Need During the Holiday Season
For Third Year in a Row, DeMaio’s Office Helps Organize Clothing Drive for Local Charity “Second Chance.” Urges Support From San Diego Residents As the holiday season begins this week Councilmember DeMaio’s office will be turning in several bags of business clothing to the charity organization “Second Chance” to help local residents working to get back on their feet. Second …
DeMaio to Deliver Major Jobs Speech Outlining Breakthrough Economic Reforms
Will Call for 50% of all Permits to be Ministerial Within 5 years, Greater Leadership on Regulatory Reform and Enaction of “Regulatory Amnesty” at Entrepreneurs’ Organization Event What: Councilmember Carl DeMaio will deliver a major speech on his jobs plan to help spur job creation at a meeting with the San Diego business group “The Entrepreneurs’ Organization.” After …
San Diego’s Leadership in Clean Energy Must Be Maintained
Stopping SDG&E’s Disastrous Solar-Killing Rate Changes A freight train is heading on a collision course with San Diego’s growing clean energy sector, but most San Diegans don’t even know about it. San Diego Gas & Electric is currently asking the California Public Utilities Commission to allow drastic and sweeping changes to San Diego’s electricity rate structure. The reason: Because of …
DeMaio Calls for Regulatory Amnesty & Streamlined Permit Processes
DeMaio Lays Out Bold Proposals to Simplify City Rules as City Leaders Hold “Regulatory Relief Day” Carl DeMaio is calling on City leaders to move forward on two major proposals which will implement real regulatory relief by turning around the slow, overgrown, and bureaucratic permitting process at City Hall. DeMaio is calling for a major overhaul of the City’s Development …
DeMaio Taps Public-Private Partnerships to Make Major Mira Mesa Park Expansion
“This Is What the Future of Neighborhood Services Looks Like” For years plans for expanding Mira Mesa’s Community Park have been at a complete stand still due to lack of funding – leaving residents without adequate facilities. That all changed today when Councilmember Carl DeMaio unveiled plans to tap public-private partnerships to fund the construction and operation of a revamped …
Win Chargers Tickets and Support Small Business
Last night I held a fundraiser to support two small businesses that have been forced to shut down due to the unsanitary and threatening environment created by the Occupy San Diego Protests. Here’s the story: http://www.youtube.com/user/DeMaio4Mayor#p/a/u/0/7kDFdAcdDvM If you weren’t able to attend, here is another opportunity… Darryl Anderson is going to donate 2 tickets to the Chargers game this Thursday …
To Attract High Tech Jobs, DeMaio Commits to Make San Diego the “Innovation Capital” of the Nation
DeMaio Brings Together Leaders in the Biotech, CleanTech, Communications, Defense, and Other Emerging Sectors Calling it “one of the most important economic issues facing our region,” Councilmember Carl DeMaio today held his most recent “Pathway to Prosperity” Job Creation Forum to focus on expanding and retaining San Diego’s high tech and defense sectors. “We must commit to make San Diego …
DeMaio to Convene Summit with Leaders in the BioTech, CleanTech & Defense Industries
Retaining and Expanding San Diego’s Technology Sectors is Vital to High Wage Job Growth What: Business leaders from the Biotech, CleanTech, communications, defense, and other technology sectors will participate in a “Job Creation Summit” with Councilmember Carl DeMaio to discuss a strategy to retain and expand high-paying jobs in these sectors. DeMaio will add the ideas generated at the summit …
Help Support Small Businesses Shut Down by “Occupy San Diego” Protestors
“It has always been my priority to support Small Businesses in San Diego any way I can. These two business owners got a raw deal due to the recent Occupy SD protests. I am asking the San Diego community to come together to help them in their time of need.” – Carl DeMaio Monday, November 7th 6:00 pm Downtown Johnny …
Councilman DeMaio calls for report on businesses affected by Occupy San Diego
The following story was recently posted on CBS’s website…. A San Diego councilman asked Tuesday for a report on what obligations the city might have regarding two small businesses whose owners closed up shop at the Civic Center Plaza because of the Occupy San Diego protests. Carl DeMaio suggested at a City Council meeting that the operators of the hot …
SJ Mercury News: Cal cities take pension reform to the ballot
San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio, a mayoral candidate who is making that city’s initiative his campaign centerpiece, has crafted one of the most aggressive plans in the state. His initiative not only would transition new hires to defined contribution, or 401(k), plans, but also “picks the lock” of existing pensions by increasing the amount city employees must contribute to their own plans and freezing the salaries used to calculate their pension benefits for five years, possibly longer.
“You see it happening up and down California,” DeMaio said. “The reality has sunk in that government, lifelong guaranteed pensions are not sustainable.”
“Let’s Build the Navy Headquarters”
As Major Coastal Commission Vote Looms, DeMaio Issues a Call-to-Action to Urge Support for Stalled Navy-Broadway Project Calling it the “single most important military project proposed in San Diego in decades,” Councilmember Carl DeMaio today called on the California Coastal Commission to drop its efforts to block construction of the much-anticipated new Navy Headquarters in San Diego. “The importance of …
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