| Newsletter October 2007 |
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Mark Your Calendar Board Meeting Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. City of Escondido Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. Cal State San Marcos No meeting in December! Marketing Committee Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., SDNEDC Office Wednesday, November 7, 2007 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., SDNEDC Office No meeting in December! Public Policy Committee Thursday, November 1, 2007 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., SDNEDC Office No meeting in December! Please RSVP for every event! SDNEDC President's Message - Video click here |
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Save The Date San Diego World Trade Center: 30th Annual Awards Gala "Celebrating Excellence in Trade" Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Supply Chain Security Seminar Wednesday, November 7, 2007 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. For more information please contact Casey Cleveland at 619-615-0868 ext. 109 or ccleveland@sdwtc.org. North County Community Meetings - Airport Master Plan Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. Harding Community Center 3096 Harding Street Carlsbad, CA 92008 Tuesday, November 6, 2007 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. San Marcos Community Center 3 Civic Center Drive San Marcos, CA 92069 |
| SDNEDC New Members: EDC of Southwest California, San Diego Employers Association, Valley View Casino, Westfield SDNEDC Renewing Members: City of Encinitas, San Diego County Water Authority, NCTD, City of Vista, Procopio Cory Hargraves & Savitch Presentation to the Board – Dr. Karen Haynes, President of California State University San Marcos gave a presentation to the Board outlining the development of the University. Cal State San Marcos opened their new Childcare Center in September which was an investment of $8 million. The University has 9,149 students which is an increase of 30.5% in 3.5 years. Cal State San Marcos is also listed as the 5th "hottest" campus in the Cal State University system. The campus offers housing for 650 students. As the University looks toward 2010 they will reach some significant milestones. CSUSM will celebrate their 20th anniversary. The University will increase their staff to 1200 employees as well as the number of students to 11,000. The Conference Center will be open by then and the University will have raised $30 million from endowments. Bob Deegan, President - Palomar College gave an overview of the planned improvements at the campus until 2022. The vote for the Proposition M allows the college to finish their building plans. The College just finished constructing their new science building which has a 20% increase in student capacity. Since Palomar College opened their academic facilities, the College has had over 1 million students on campus. Palomar is planning on a new social behavior building as well as a new library. The College is planning on purchasing land along Interstate 15 in Fallbrook. It is anticipated that Palomar will be home to over 50,000 students by 2020. Marketing Committee – Diane Strand, Committee Chair Diane's presentation to the board regarding the projects the marketing committee is working on included: • The board was updated on the Outlook 2020 magazine by Stephanie Weber. She said the magazine was on track and will begin distribution on October 17, 2007, the date for the launch party to celebrate the release of the publication. • Diane updated the board on the Economic Roundtable TV show. The first episode was a success for both SDNEDC and Merriam Mountains. The second episode is about to go into production, and the plan is to release the second episode for broadcast before year end. • Diane also talked about the Clean Green Directory that is being publishing with one of our member/partner's, the San Diego Business Journal. The date of the directory release was still to be determined. • Diane then transitioned to the year end Holiday Awards Luncheon. The date of December 6, 2007 was announced and she requested SDNEDC members to participate and reserve the date on their calendars. She also informed the board and members that the call for Holiday luncheon sponsorship would be going out very soon. Public Policy Committee – David Nilson, Committee Chair 1) Wireless Summit. Acknowledged Cliff Kaiser's earlier summary of the Wireless Mesh concept to be presented at CSUSM on Sept. 14. The Summit is directed toward San Diego north municipalities their staff members. An open invitation was extended to SDNEDC Directors and interested businesses. Cliff commented on the success of the system in Minneapolis during the bridge collapse where lives were saved because they had this infrastructure. The Public Policy Committee discussed wireless as Infrastructure at their last meeting, but took no position on it. 2) North County Trade Tech High School. Presenters will be at next Public Policy Committee meeting in October. The school provides complete academic training that meets CSU and UC requirements, plus skill training in construction, pre-engineering and management. It is not a remedial education program, but a fully qualified Charter School sponsored by the Vista Unified School District. |
| Planning for the airport of the future |
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Over the next few months you will be hearing about the development of the Airport Master Plan that addresses the need to have a functioning
airport as San Diego continues to grow. Much of the planning process is dependent on the statistics that are found below. This information was taken from the SDCRAA web site and is intended as educational. • Runway congestion at San Diego International Airport (the Airport) is anticipated when annual aircraft operations reach between 260,000 to 300,000. • At 260,000 annual operations - approximately 30% above current levels - occurring between 2015 and 2022, runway capacity will begin to constrain growth. • At 300,000 annual operations - occurring between 2021 and 2030 - runway congestion will not allow further growth. • While the Airport can accommodate the current number of flights, the single runway does not have enough capacity to handle the forecast growth in aircraft operations. The runway handled 209,362 operations in calendar year 2004. • Investment in airport improvements, such as additional gates and taxiway extensions, at the Airport will be required to accommodate these growth levels. • Passenger traffic at the Airport is forecast to grow from 17.4 million passengers in 2005 to between 27 million and 33 million in 2030. • If additional runway capacity is not provided, San Diego will experience a cumulative loss of at least five million passengers (low growth scenario) and as many as 31 million passengers (high growth scenario) over the forecast period. • At 74.4 percent, the Airport has one of the highest load factors - the number of seats filled in an aircraft - among airports in the country. Load factors are projected to increase nationally, but high current load factors will limit future increases at the Airport. Cargo • Continued strong growth in cargo tonnage is forecast in both the high and low forecast scenarios. In 2005, a total of 152,257 tons of cargo were handled at the Airport. Cargo is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.9 percent under the low growth scenario and 4.8 percent under the high growth scenario. • Cargo operations are projected to grow slower than cargo tonnage due to increasing aircraft capacity. |
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San Diego North Economic Development Council, 100 N. Rancho Santa Fe Rd., Suite 124, San Marcos, CA 92069 Phone: 760-598-9311 Fax: 760-598-9325 or email garyknight@sandiegnorthedc.org stephanieweber@sandiegonorthedc.org |
