{"id":2611,"date":"2008-06-04T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2008-06-05T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:58:59","slug":"welcome-to-the-charter-carlsbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2611","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The Charter Carlsbad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a landslide vote yesterday (we forgot to vote) <strong>Proposition D<\/strong> collected 82.2 percent of the votes making Carlsbad a &#8220;charter&#8221; city, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/04\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zf396a5330a4442968825745e00142c43.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. This means the City of Carlsbad will have a little more local control and the freedom to get around some state laws.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Tuesday&#8217;s passage of Prop. D, Carlsbad can exempt itself from some, but not all, state requirements. A charter city can&#8217;t refuse to follow state public meeting laws or traffic regulations, but it can set its own election standards and create its own process for handling construction contracts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this apparently means saving money by not necessarily being forced into paying union wages when it comes to building things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/04\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zf396a5330a4442968825745e00142c43.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadconnected.com\/#carlsbad-charter-home-7a1df\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Connect<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a landslide vote yesterday (we forgot to vote) Proposition D collected 82.2 percent of the votes making Carlsbad a &#8220;charter&#8221; city, according to a story in the North County Times. This means the City of Carlsbad will have a little more local control and the freedom to get around some state laws. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}