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Public Health and Safety Commission forwards 2024 recommendations to City Council; votes to schedule January meeting to finalize 2025 work plan
Summary
The commission approved a slate of recommendations compiled during 2024 and voted to schedule a special January meeting to finalize the 2025 work plan. Both votes passed 4–0 with two commissioners absent.
The Encinitas Public Health and Safety Commission voted to approve its compiled recommendations and will present the 2024 work-plan recommendations to the City Council. The commission also voted to schedule a special meeting in January to finalize the 2025 draft work plan.
Chair Morton moved to accept the commission’s recommendations as prepared; Vice Chair Dominguez confirmed the procedure and Commissioners discussed minor edits to the homeless ad hoc report. Commissioners asked staff (Lois) to make two color-coding adjustments to the ad hoc report before submission (change two red items to yellow), and staff agreed to update the file prior to transmittal.
The commission then discussed items proposed for the 2025 work plan, including: rolling forward recommendations on smoke shops/dispensaries and outreach; promoting cross-agency communications and social-media amplification of sheriff-produced content; supporting mental-health and homeless resource fairs; improving two-way community engagement by having commissioners serve as volunteers/ambassadors at departmental outreach events; and inviting speakers (including county behavioral-health representatives and school-district officials) to the March meeting. Commissioners volunteered to work in pairs on draft language for several priorities and to submit those drafts to staff before the January meeting.
Formal votes: The commission recorded approval of the 2024 recommendations and a subsequent motion to schedule a January special meeting. The clerk announced both motions “carried 4–0 with Commissioner Andrade and Commissioner Taylor absent.” No recorded no votes or abstentions were indicated in the transcript.
Ending: The commission closed the meeting after approving the recommendations and setting the special meeting; staff will agendize the March meeting speaker invitations and provide requested data ahead of the January scheduling vote.
