{"id":59626,"date":"2025-07-12T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59626\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:05:09","slug":"why-didnt-council-also-try-to-get-it-right-on-handling-of-trash-fee-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59626\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn\u2019t council also try to \u2018get it right\u2019 on handling of trash fee? \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cSan Diego relaxes new ban on digital-only grocery coupons\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/07\/09\/san-diego-just-relaxed-its-new-ban-on-digital-only-grocery-coupons-heres-what-to-expect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 9<\/a>), City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert congratulated herself and the City Council with the following words regarding its ban on digital-only coupons: \u201cThis is a great example of the council bringing something back so we can get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. von Wilpert makes it clear: The City Council can \u201cbring something back \u2014 so they can get it right.\u201d If that\u2019s true, why didn\u2019t the council call for a new vote on 2022\u2019s Measure B amending the People\u2019s Ordinance of 1919 (passed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/San_Diego%2C_California%2C_Measure_B%2C_Waste_Management_Measure_%28November_2022%29?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">razor-thin<\/a> 50.5% vs. 49.5%) when members knew full well the city\u2019s independent budget analyst advised that the projected garbage collection fee was going to be $23-$29 before the vote? Especially when that misdirection of the city\u2019s projected garbage collection fee morphed from $29 to $43.60 \u2014 more than 50 percent higher than what voters were told. Where was this great example of the council bringing something back \u201cso we can get it right\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J. Berg, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In \u201cSan Diego relaxes new ban on digital-only grocery coupons\u201d (July 9), City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert congratulated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-59626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114840412124736036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}