Analysis: SEDC president's desire for lack of accountability
The recent interview of Carolyn Smith, outgoing president of the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) as a city redevelopment agency, is incredibly revealing as to the nature and quality of leadership during the last decade and a half that she …
SEDC president to board in 2006: give up affordable housing monitoring and enforcement?
Around the time the city's Independent Budget Analyst was wondering why bonuses were being paid out during an employee pay freeze last year, the president of the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) was requesting that SEDC transfer its affordable housing …
Lack of budget standardization at redevelopment agencies an on-going city concern
In at least two Independent Budget Analyst Reports dating back to mid-2006, city staffers had expressed concerns that the city's redevelopment agencies adopt standards to more clearly state what their budgets contained, as well as to make clearer how those …
SEDC Saga Continues: ex-presidents and opening moves
Three former presidents of the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) have been cited in this city's great metropolitan daily paper, all seeming to contradict the previous published interview statements of outgoing SEDC president Carolyn Smith. (See http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080821-9999-1m21sedc.html) In her interview, …
Encanto Steet Fair means finding a driving alternative to Imperial Avenue!
This year's Encanto Street Fair and Cultural Arts Festival promises to be an interesting affair both for the entertainment and for its political ramifications (which could prove to be even more entertaining). The steet fair is the first major public …
SEDC board member: "It's all about perception"
From this city's daily newspaper this morning (Aug. 14), a quote from a Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) board member on why the board chairman was not ousted three weeks after the same board fired its outgoing president, Carolyn Smith, …
The Voluntary Cleanup Agreement and the cleanup that never happened
After the demolition of the old Encanto Gas Holder facility in Lemon Grove, after the initial complaints by residents of Lemon Grove anad Encanto about the odor, asbestos dust, and eventual storm runoff deposits being left in the Encanto Branch …
Ethical Public Leadership as a rare quality around the old gas holder site.
Without getting into a lengthy philosophical discussion, let us agree that a reasonable minimum standard for the ethics of a government official, any government official, is to follow the law as it is written in the law and then understood …
For In-coming SEDC president: Having your interview printed in the paper may not be a good thing...
In the San Diego Union-Tribune this morning, excerpts from an interview with outgoing Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) president Carolyn Smith left me with a lot more questions than answers. The story on the interview excerpts: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/sedc/20080812-9999-1m12sedc.html The entire interview …
What is the sound of one SEDC shredder shredding?
In the City's call for the resignation of Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) President Carolyn Smith, one kind of got the idea that this meant now, pronto, mach schnell, IMMEDIATELY... What Ms. Smith got was 90 days to clean house …