Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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The Fallbrook Public Utility District has awarded PK Mechanical Systems the FPUD contract for the Toyon Pump Station pipeline extension project. FPUD’s board voted 4-0 Dec, 9, with Jennifer DeMeo absent, to award PK Mechanical a $350,000 contract for the work. The new pipeline will be approximately 850 linear feet of eight-inch cement mortar lined and coated (CML&C) welded steel pipe. The Toyon Pump Station was built in 1982 and serves 63 accounts in the Toyon Service Area near Red Mountain Reservoir. It has exceeded its u...
The Dec. 9 board meeting of the Fallbrook Public Utility District included approval of FPUD rates and other charges for Calendar Year 2025. The board voted 4-0, with Jennifer DeMeo absent, to adopt the 2025 rates and charges for water, recycled water, and wastewater delivery and services. The approximate increase from 2024 is 3.5% for water and 2.5% for recycled water and wastewater. In November 1996, the state's voters passed Proposition 218, which requires a public vote on benefit assessments. Proposition 218 exempts water...
Ross Johnson has stepped down as Fallbrook High School’s head football coach. Johnson, who coached the Warriors from 2022 to 2024, made the announcement Nov. 25. “It was a family-related decision,” said Johnson, whose children are 5 and 3. After Troy Everhart, who coached Fallbrook from 2019 to 2021, took a head coach position in Ohio, the Fallbrook Union High School District hired Johnson in March 2022. Everhart resigned in January 2022 to give Fallbrook High School a chance to hire a new coach in time for spring pract...
The first 2024-25 dual meet for Fallbrook High School’s wrestling program was actually a quad meet involving four schools Dec. 3 at Army-Navy Academy. Each school had matches against each of the other three schools, and Fallbrook was 2-1 in those competitions. “I’m really happy,” said Fallbrook coach Tom Brockson. Wrestling has both individual scores and team scores. In each match, a wrestler is given one point for an escape, two points for a takedown, a reversal, or a near fall lasting two to five seconds, and three points...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District board ratified an emergency declaration to repair the pipeline on Beavercreek Lane, Josten Way, and West Fallbrook Street. A 4-0 board Dec. 9, with Jennifer DeMeo absent, approved the emergency declaration made by FPUD general manager Jack Bebee. The ratification allows the work order Bebee negotiated to continue. An emergency is defined as an unexpected occurrence which requires immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss of essential public services. In the event of an emergency,...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District will be relining approximately 2,275 linear feet of sewer main in the future, and Sancon Technologies will be the contractor. A 4-0 FPUD board vote Dec. 9, with Jennifer DeMeo absent, approved the contract. Sancon, which is based in Huntington Beach, will be paid $209,107.50. FPUD’s capital improvement program includes improving the reliability of the sewer collections system through strategic rehabilitation of existing infrastructure. The work Sancon will perform will reline 684 l...
New state legislation allows speed limits to be lowered an additional 5 mph from what the previous allowance was if a road segment is designated as a safety corridor. The county’s Traffic Advisory Committee has recommended that portions of South Mission Road, East Mission Road, Gopher Canyon Road, and Pala Temecula Road be given that safety corridor designation. The recommendation to designate the roads as safety corridors and lower the speed limits by an additional 5 mph was approved unanimously during the Dec. 6 TAC meeting...
The Vallecitos School District board approved a 4% salary increase for the district’s classified employees. The board voted 3-0 Nov. 12, with Ritsa Chanthabandith absent and one vacant seat, to approve the salary increase for the 2024‑25 school year. The salary increase is retroactive to July 1. “We value their work,” said Vallecitos School District Superintendent Meliton Sanchez, who is also the district’s Chief Business Officer. “We value their support, and this is just our way of showing that appreciation.” The pay for s...
A 10-year loan will fund the exit fee the Rainbow Municipal Water District paid to the San Diego County Water Authority to leave the SDCWA. During a Nov. 19 special meeting of the Rainbow board, a 5-0 vote approved a resolution authorizing the execution of the loan from U.S. Bank. The loan covers the entirety of the $15,798,250 exit fee. “We were looking at this as how we could best pay the exit fee,” said Rainbow General Manager Jake Wiley. In July 2023, San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission approved a reorgan...
Ratepayers in the Rainbow Municipal Water District will save money with the transition from the San Diego County Water Authority to the Eastern Municipal Water District, even the Rainbow ratepayers who had been receiving the discounted Special Agricultural Water Rate the SDCWA offers. A 5-0 vote at the Nov. 19 Rainbow board meeting directed Rainbow staff not to implement the planned rate increase based on the increased Metropolitan Water District of Southern California rate, eliminated the SAWR classification in Rainbow’s A...
The City of Temecula will be resurfacing Rainbow Canyon Road, and a Dec. 3 Riverside County Board of Supervisors action approved an agreement between the county and the city which will allow the portion of the road in unincorporated Riverside County to be repaved. The 5-0 vote approved the cooperative agreement with the City of Temecula. That agreement will add approximately 300 feet of the road south of the city boundary to the rehabilitation the roadway within the City of Temecula will receive. The city portion of Rainbow...
The San Diego County Water Authority collects a share of property tax revenue from property owners within the SDCWA boundary. The Fallbrook Public Utility District was part of the CWA prior to Jan. 1, 2024, but the property tax revenue the CWA received in 2024 included some from landowners in the FPUD area. A Nov. 21 CWA board action approved the reapportionment of property taxes collected after the detachment date. The property tax will still be collected from FPUD landowners, but the money will now be part of Eastern Munici...
The construction of the Rainbow Municipal Water District’s West Lilac, Rancho Amigos, and Dentro De Lomas pump stations has been completed, and a Nov. 19 Rainbow board meeting approved the final change orders and the final budget for the project. The board voted 5-0 to authorize an additional $1,150,000 of expenses for the project. The budget amendment increases the Fiscal Year 2024-25 portion of the cost from $3,400,000 to $4,550,000. “This closes out the project,” said Rainbow General Manager Jake Wiley. The San Diego...
A recent Rainbow Municipal Water District board decision to perform future tank maintenance in-house kept open the option of negotiating a potential contract with the current contractor or another qualified firm. An agreement with USG Water Solutions was reached, and a 5-0 Rainbow board vote Nov. 19 approved the new maintenance contract for the district’s steel tanks. “We renegotiated the schedule,” said Rainbow General Manager Jake Wiley. “We’re going to extend the contract and include this addendum.” Rainbow’s b...
Fallbrook High School's girls placed 11th among Division II schools at the CIF San Diego Section cross country meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Cross country team scores add the positions of a school's first five finishers; the sixth and seventh runners from each team are not scored but can add points to opponents' totals. Fallbrook had 323 points, edging 12th-place Central Union (El Centro) by one point. Bonita Vista had the 10th-place score of 312 points. Sixteen...
Three Fallbrook High School 12th-grade boys concluded their high school cross country careers at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Xavier Charland finished 92nd in the Division II boys race; Alex Lugo had the 106th-place time, and Cruz Arroyo was the 118th runner across the finish line. "The guys that showed up gave me their best effort," said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. "Everyone ran to their ability today." The CIF San Diego Section...
The president and vice-president of the Rainbow Municipal Water District board will now be elected at December board meetings. Normally Rainbow’s November and December board meetings are combined, but items related to Rainbow’s detachment from the San Diego County Water Authority and annexation to the Eastern Municipal Water District resulted in a Nov. 19 special meeting which was in addition to the previously scheduled Dec. 10 board meeting. The Nov. 19 meeting included a 5-0 board vote to amend Rainbow’s Admin...
The Nov. 4 meeting of San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission included an update on the municipal service reviews for the county’s four healthcare districts. The update was a non-voting item. LAFCO consultant Adam Wilson gave the presentation. The last municipal service review and sphere of influence update for the Fallbrook, Grossmont, Palomar, and Tri-City healthcare districts was approved by the LAFCO board in May 2015, and that approval also designated special study areas for possible future action. The Fallb...
The Bonsall Community Sponsor Group has recommended that the County of San Diego approve a time extension for the planned Marquart Ranch subdivision. A 5-0 sponsor group vote Nov. 12, with sponsor group chair Steve Norris and vice-chair Larissa Anderson absent, recommended a two-year time extension for the project. The time extension would not change any design or condition of the parcel map. In October 2007, the county’s Planning Commission approved a tentative map to subdivide the 44.2-acre Marquart Ranch property into n...
Years ago, I was having a discussion with a political writer and the conversation included dual citizenship. Her thought was that those with dual citizenship could vote in the elections of both countries, so dual citizenship was bad. My thought was that dual citizens could compete in the Olympics for either country, which would be good. Now that one of my own descendants has dual citizenship, an anti-American aspect, albeit a temporary one, of dual citizenship has occurred to me. My granddaughter could eventually compete in... Full story
The San Diego County Water Authority has approved the weighted vote for 2025 SDCWA meetings. The weighted vote for 2025 was approved by the CWA board Nov. 21. The completion of the detachment of the Rainbow Municipal District from the CWA also resulted in a revision of the weighted vote allocation for the Nov. 21 meeting as well as for any special meetings called in December 2024. The Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s weighted vote, which had been 0.077%, was 0.080% for the Nov. 21 meeting and will be 0.077% for calendar y...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District procurement policy allows the FPUD general manager to delegate certain tasks. FPUD’s procurement policy had specified which positions could be authorized as the designee, but the specific positions were eliminated by an Oct. 28 board action. The 5-0 vote revises the section of FPUD’s Administrative Code relating to definitions for procurement actions. FPUD’s Administrative Code allows the FPUD general manager to delegate tasks, so specific positions are redundant as well as possi...
The top 10 finishers in the Valley League cross country championship race earned berths on the all-league first team while the next 10 finishers were placed on the all-league second team. Two Fallbrook High School girls earned second-team recognition for their performances at the Nov. 9 league championship race at Kit Carson Park. A time of 21:36.3 on the 3.05-mile course gave senior Cynthia Mills 11th place and second-team recognition. "I'm happy with that, but I wish I...
Fallbrook High School’s boys cross country team shared fifth in the final 2024 Valley League standings. The formula for the Valley League team cross country league championship gives 25% for positions at each of the two league cluster meets and the other 50% for the positions at the league championship meet. Fallbrook’s boys were fifth at both cluster meets, which occurred Oct. 4 at Kit Carson Park and Oct. 18 at Guajome Park, and sixth at the league championship meet Nov. 9 at Kit Carson Park. Escondido was sixth in bot...
Seven Fallbrook High School football players were given all-league designation by the Palomar League coaches. Camden Hoff was chosen for the offensive first team. Wyatt Casillas was placed on the defensive first team. Evan Thomas and Ryder Wood are the two Fallbrook players on the offensive second team. The defensive second team included Blake Robinson. Ernesto Garcia and Tayjon Owens were recognized at the honorable mention level. “I thought that was about right for what our season was,” Fallbrook head coach Ross Joh...
