{"id":9866,"date":"2011-03-23T06:54:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2011-03-23T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:03:21","slug":"roadside-call-boxing-with-ann-kulchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9866","title":{"rendered":"Roadside Call Boxing With Ann Kulchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/callsafe.widea_.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/callsafe.widea_.jpg','popup','width=642,height=362,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/callsafe.widea-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Callsafe.Widea\" \/><\/a>Add this to the long list of things we didn&#8217;t know about Carlsbad City Councilperson <strong>Ann Kulchin<\/strong>: for the past 20 plus years Kulchin has served on the board of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcallbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Diego Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies<\/a><\/strong>. Interesting no? The board, which controls a budget created by a $1 tax that is added to every San Diego County vehicle registration ($2.5 million a year), was created 1986 specifically to install and operate roadside call boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Now that most everyone on the road has a cellphone the boxes don&#8217;t get much use anymore. This has left SD SAFE with quite a lot of money to spend on things that aren&#8217;t exactly roadside call boxes. And according to a story by <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcitybeat.com\/sandiego\/article-8869-safe-deposit.html\" target=\"_blank\">SD City Beat<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Dave Maass<\/strong>, Ann Kulchin gets a pretty free hand in deciding where that money goes and there are some who don&#8217;t exactly agree with how the money is being spent.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the link for a few concrete examples of how the good ol&#8217; boy\/girl network functions in San Diego County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcitybeat.com\/sandiego\/article-8869-safe-deposit.html\" target=\"_blank\">SD City Beat<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the long list of things we didn&#8217;t know about Carlsbad City Councilperson Ann Kulchin: for the past 20 plus years Kulchin has served on the board of The San Diego Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies. Interesting no? The board, which controls a budget created by a $1 tax that is added to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866"}],"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=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9869,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}