Sanders reacts to Kroll report

By Alison St John / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published August 22, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders will give citizens a chance to weigh in on what the city should do to get out of its financial problems. He will hold a Town Hall meeting in the Balboa Park Club tomorro

San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders will give citizens a chance to weigh in on what the city should do to get out of its financial problems. He will hold a Town Hall meeting in the Balboa Park Club tomorrow night. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

Mayor Sanders will present his plan of action in response to the $20 million Kroll Report's. The Kroll report contained 25 pages of recommendations, including extra layers of independent financial review. The goal is to restore the city's credibility on Wall Street, which took a hit when the city hid its massive pension deficit from investors.
The mayor's spokesman, Fred Sainz says the mayor wants public involvement in his strategy.

Sainz: "Now that he has arrived at certain conclusion he wants people to become educated on how the city got itself into this position, what the remedial steps that we will have to take in order to get ourselves out of this position are, and what the obvious implications for city government will be."

Become a KPBS sponsor

One implication will be cost the proposed changes could be expensive. Alison St John KPBS news.

Alison St John

twitter

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.