News Scrapbook 1985

Sacramento, CA (Sacramento Co.) Union (Cir. D. 93,501) (Cir. S. 92,680)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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clairvoyant," to know what the Food and Agri- culture Board was planning to do, the resolution stayed on the books because the law is directory, To put teeth in the law, both houses ol the Legislature have passed AB 214, introduced by Assemblyman Lloyd Connelly, D-Sacramento, and pon ored by the Univer~y of San Diego Center for Puhltc Interest Law, The measure mandates that ,mielings of state agencies be open unless specifically excluded_ by law, ~nd requires 10-day notice of mE>etmgs, spec1hc agendas for meetings, and bans state bodies from taking action on off-agenda items. If the agency violates either pronsion, AB 214 allows 1 citizens or organizallons to challenge the action within 30 days in elforts to have it declared null not mandatory. measure specifies that agencies can convene a econd meeting and do legally what it did Illegally at the first meeting. Approximately 17 states have laws similar to that proposed by AB 214 . However, the Deukme- Jian administration indicates it will be vetoed the need for "hnalit; of government action" is more important than invalidating the Illegal actions of state agencies. But as the r · say, the finality of all government action should not be purchased at the cost of becau. spon "A originally enacted, the open meetings act sought to msure public access to state agency activities," said Gene Erbin of the Center for Public Interest Law in Sacramento. "AB 214 simply guarantees that public bodies seriously regard their responsibilities, as defined under It should be added that the Brown Act is also only directory. So If Gov. Deukmejian vetoes AB 214, it will rule out any chance of strengthening the open meetmg law covering local agencies. Public officials would be tempted to fudge on open meetmgs, leaving the public in the dark , Peter J Hayes 1s editor,a/ page editor of The Sacramento Union . California law " and void. Th affirming unlawful action.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego_ co.) Evening Tnbune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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Digginfin at' USD A b~le'fand earth movers excavate for the foundation of the Upiversit)'. of lll.Iliego's University Center. The $9 million center

will house a·student lounge, dining room and areas for other stndent activities. It is scheduled for completion by September 1986.

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Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co.) Son Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,32-4) (Cir. S. 339,7881 AUG 181 5 Jl.1/ni'• P. C, 8

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,, Archaeological sites are ancient, dead, but issues new, alive /J .I:_ By Kristife" Staff Writer city representatives and archaeolo- gists to discuss the next step.

square-foot building in the Mission Gorge location though the 1980 envi- ronmental reviews were for 4,000 square feet. Archaeological disputes also arose, since the building would be on top of a dig that the University_))f San Diego has used for research and traintng fOT!Syears. The 1980 environmental report said the archaeology site should be preserved by constructing the new building on piers. The diocese and USO maintain that excavation done since then has salvaged the artifacts, and that since they will still build on piers, the site has been handled prop- erly. But some archaeologists said that isn't good enough. No report has been written. In June, new information - based on work by a contract historian, not USO - revealed that the new center would be built over the original mis- sion's cemetery, which may contain the graves of the state's earliest priests and converts. A meeting is scheduled Tuesday for diocese and

spend on excavation. But some ar- chaeologists said the law was passed after the Sabre Springs environmen- tal review was done, so the financial limits shouldn't have applied. Allen Jones, deputy planning di- rector for the city of San Diego, which issued the permit for the project, said the law "was not ger- mane." The excavation was "very adequate" and in any event, he said, "it was not necessary to spend any more money at that site." Royce Riggan Jr., RBR president, said the project is the second-largest excavation of that kind of Indian site in the county, and predicted that the data will produce several scientific papers. Mission San Diego de Alcala: Five years after the city initially ap- proved a new church building at this 1769 mission founded by Father Juni- pero Serra, legal and archaeological • questions stalled the start of con- struction earlier this year. The city's Historical Sites Board balked when

She surveyed the site of a new 100- acre campground in 1982 and found a well-preserved Indian village from around the 16th or 17th century. She did a limited amount of excavation under contract with Thousand Trails and then more as a volunteer to col-

lect information for her doctoral dissertation. Later, Thousand Trails agreed to cover up the site with fresh dirt and preserve it for the future. Since only campsites were placed on top, the site was not disturbed. _,,,,., ./

Thousand Trails Pio Pico Camp- ground: Dr. Susan Hector, senior ar- chaeologist with Recon of San Diego, considers this Jamul project an ex- ample of when things go right.

Three local excavations illustrate some of the JSSues in the archaeology business. Sabre Springs: Archaeologists were in an uproar last year over the excavation at this housing project west of Poway. RBR & Associates uncovered a 1,000-year-old Indian village on 30 of the 1,500 acres. An ancient Indian burial um was dug up and then reburied among charges of disturbing a religious site. Archaeologists also were upset at the size of the excavation. RBR rec- ommended digging 1 percent of the site at a cost of more than $1 million, according to Sean Cardenas, senior archaeologist for RBR. Instead, the developer, Pardee Construction Co., set aside five acres for an archaeolo- gy preserve and spent $110,000 to ex- cavate a fraction of the rest. The value of the five-acre preserve more than satisfied Pardee's finan- cial obligation under a state law that

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the Catholic Diocese of San Diego limits how much developers have to -said it wanted to build a 9,600-