Chula Vista City Council to Receive Chargers Report Tuesday Night

By Alison St John / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published September 18, 2007 at 11:47 AM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Chula Vistans will get their first chance Tuesday night to run with the idea of a new NFL stadium in their city. The city council will receive an initial report on two viable sites. KPBS reporter Alis

Chula Vistans will get their first chance Tuesday night to run with the idea of a new NFL stadium in their city. The city council will receive an initial report on two viable sites. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

Mayor Cheryl Cox says once the council hears the report, the next step is to see how the two sites would affect the local community.

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She says one of the big questions is how the stadium would be financed.

Cox : I can’t support the gift of publicly owned land for a privately owned building but there is certainly terms that can be worked out. We want to make sure that our public has a lot more information before we go to a public vote.

Cox says if the Chargers decide they are interested in one of the two sites in Chula Vista, at least two more studies would have to be done before a public vote in 2008.

Tonight's meeting will be a chance to hear the pros and cons of the two sites, kick around ideas and test reactions from the public and elected officials.

The Chargers have not ruled out stadium sites in Oceanside or San Diego.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.