Each week, the City of Coronado City Manager’s Office provides an update that includes information on programs, services and issues within the City, as well as news, project updates and follow-up information when applicable. Featured below are highlights from that update. The entire City Manager’s Weekly Update can be found on the City’s website.
Pomona Roundabout Awards
The Pomona Roundabout project was selected by the San Diego County Engineering Council as the winner of both the “Engineering Project of the Year” and “Outstanding Engineering Project” awards for 2014 during the region’s celebration of National Engineering Week. According to the organization, the awards are intended to recognize recent contributions to engineering within San Diego County. City Engineers will receive the awards at a ceremony tonight at the University of San Diego.
Monument Sign Lighting
The lighting on the City’s monument entrance sign has been replaced with a solar lighting system and is fully operational. Drivers heading into Coronado will notice the monument sign, pictured below, just after crossing through the San Diego-Coronado Bridge toll plaza and just before State Route 75 splits after Glorietta Boulevard. The sign, which is on state property, is using 100 percent renewable energy and is now well illuminated. The City is trying to work out a solution to the separate matter of the deteriorating condition of the landscaping around the monument sign. Due to the drought, the Governor directed last year that Caltrans discontinue landscape irrigation, and landscape maintenance is a low priority for the state.
LED Lights Replacement Project
The City is in the very early working stages of a project to convert its less efficient decorative lamps along Orange Avenue to more efficient LED lamps, focusing on post top, or acorn-type, lamps. Crews are testing an area on Orange between Ninth and Tenth streets, where the City uses High Pressure Sodium lamps. The remainder of the downtown area has induction lamps, which are sufficiently efficient. They will remain in place. LED lamps last longer than the high pressure sodium lamps, which may burn for 3-5 years. LED’s may burn for 10 years, thereby reducing the City’s maintenance costs. The Cays, which also uses the sodium lamps, will be part of the project. The City has installed one LED test light in the median at Orange and Tenth on the east side of a two-lamp fixture. The other side is the less-efficient sodium lamp. The light emitted is very different and the color definition is much better. The project is ongoing and may take several months to complete.
Nature’s Bridge Brochures
The City of Coronado’s Community Development Department publishes a handy brochure that takes visitors on walking tours of Nature’s Bridge to Discovery, an interpretive trail on the eastern side of the Silver Strand south of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Copies of the brochure have been recently delivered to the Coronado Tourism Improvement District for distribution to local hotels. The Nature’s Bridge to Discovery brochure may be viewed online on the City’s website: www.coronado.ca.us. The brochure is available at City Hall, the Library and the Coronado Visitor Center, 1100 Orange Ave.
Junior Lifeguards Summer Program
The Coronado Junior Lifeguard program is gearing up for the summer 2015 session. There will be two sessions, June 22-July 17 and July 20-August 14. Registration for residents begins April 21. There also will be an introductory Junior Lifeguards program held from June 15-19. Coronado Lifeguards will then host the California State Games Junior Lifeguard Competition at Central Beach. Several hundred competitors are expected to participate in the event, which will be viewed by parents and other spectators. This is the fifth year Coronado will host the event. Those interested in signing up might watch this video to get a feel for the program.
Spreckels Park Restroom Project
The public is invited to participate in a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, in the Library’s Winn Room to discuss the Spreckels Park Restroom project. The architect will make a presentation and listen to any ideas or concerns that the public may have. Click here or on meeting notice below for a larger image. The restroom is old and in need of an upgrade. The demand for restroom facilities varies depending on the time of year and specific events. How large the restroom should be is an issue. The art on the restroom will be saved.
Upcoming Meetings
- The Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 2, at City Hall, 1825 Strand Way.
- The City Council meets at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at City Hall.
- The Historic Resource Commission meets at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, at City Hall.
- Coronado Tourism Improvement District meeting will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at City Hall.
- The Cultural Arts Commission meets at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at City Hall.
- The Parks and Recreation Commission meets at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 9, at City Hall.
- The Planning Commission meeting meets at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at City Hall.
- The Design Review Commission meeting is set for 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, at City Hall.
- The Coronado Transportation Commission meets at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at City Hall.
- The RSIP-3 Committee meeting is set for Thursday, March 12, at City Hall.
- The Civil Service Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at City Hall.
- Naval Complexes Coordinating Group meets on Monday, March 16, at City Hall.
- The City Council meets at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, at City Hall.
- Historic Resource Commission meets at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, at City Hall.
- The Planning Commission meeting meets at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, at City Hall.
- The Design Review Commission meeting is set for 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, at City Hall.
