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School Board meets Friday to consider City’s Pacific View offer and postpone the auction!
Several concerned Encinitas residents stayed up late to encourage the Encinitas council to save Pacific View. Among them were (top row, l. to r) Danny Salzhandler, Claudia Russell, Blair Schultze, (bottom row, l. to r.) John Gjata, Catherine Blakespear and Tricia A. Smith. Dan Jaoudi also addressed the council. To watch video of the meeting, click here and go to item 10E, which begins at 3:15:42.
In the nick of time, the Encinitas City Council voted to tender a confidential offer to the Encinitas Union School District to purchase the Pacific View property at the climax of its Wednesday, March 19 meeting. The council voted 3-2, with councilmembers Kristin Gaspar and Mark Muir dissenting, to respond to EUSD Superintendent Baird’s March 17 letter to the council (see below) by submitting an offer before the Friday deadline Baird had specified.
The announcement came just before 11 p.m. after a long discussion that included several emphatic Save Pacific View speakers and a 45-minute closed-door city council session. Encinitas City Attorney Glenn Sabine ended the meeting with a one-sentence report: “The city council, on a three-to-two vote with Muir and Gaspar voting no, directed the mayor to submit a confidential offer to the Encinitas Union School District for purposes of postponing the public auction and acquiring the Pacific View school property site.”
Because the terms of the city council’s offer are confidential, it’s difficult to predict how the district will respond. But when the council returned from its closed session, there was a sense that this offer will be far more substantial than its original $4.3 million bid from last December. The hope is that the council’s overture will be enough to convince Baird and the school board to postpone the auction and engage in direct negotiations with the city to cement the details of the purchase.
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School District Responds to Encinitas City Council
This is the March 17 reply sent by EUSD Superintendent Baird to Encinitas Mayor Teresa Barth’s letter from late last week asking that the board consider meeting with city council representatives in an effort to keep the Pacific View property in the public domain before the district’s March 25 auction. The city council will meet in closed session on Wednesday, March 19, to discuss a response.
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