San Diego City Propositions All Pass

By Alison St John / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published June 4, 2008 at 1:54 AM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

Voters approved all three San Diego city propositions. Proposition A exempts the police from privatization. B puts the strong mayor form of government on the ballot, with a stronger mayoral veto, in 2

Voters approved all three San Diego city propositions. Proposition A exempts the police from privatization. B puts the strong mayor form of government on the ballot, with a stronger mayoral veto, in 2010. Even Proposition C, including the disputed issue of how to appoint a truly independent auditor, passed easily with 63 percent of the vote.

Councilman Kevin Faulconer said he believes San Diego voters just want to see reforms move ahead.

Faulconer : I think people looked at it and they said, "We want to continue the reforms," and Proposition C is an essential element to getting San Diego back on track, because so much is at stake. It’s going to help us get a better bond rating and that’s going to benefit every San Diegan and every neighborhood.

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Councilwoman Donna Frye, who opposed Prop C, says voters may have simply found the new appointment process difficult to understand, and voted “yes” because of the spirit of reform in the measure.

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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.