Public input sought on funding projects

Three town hall meetings will be held next week to assess the community's interest in establishing a Community Benefit District in Fallbrook. While beautification and maintenance projects throughout town are performed solely by volunteer organizations, those volunteers do not have as much funding as they used to and they are getting older.

While some local businesses donate water and services to these projects, the county does not pay for any of them. So, a number of local organizations are supporting an effort to create a Community Benefit District, including the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce...