{"id":506829,"date":"2026-10-24T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:18:07","slug":"advice-for-recently-confirmed-san-diego-chief-operating-officer-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506829\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for recently confirmed San Diego chief operating officer \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cWith eye to stability, San Diego confirms new COO\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/10\/19\/at-long-last-bethany-bezak-confirmed-as-san-diego-chief-operating-officer-filling-long-vacant-top-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 19<\/a>): Interesting. I guess San Diego had enough money to hire an individual chief operating officer at $460,000, but not enough money to keep bathrooms open at Mission Bay.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Bethany Bezak will use more common sense than Mayor Todd Gloria and current City Council members use to maintain city services and control government spending.<\/p>\n<p>For example, cut the costly positions of garbage can inspectors who just issue warnings for trash violations. Instead, please use affordable technology to replace the costly trash inspector positions with camera systems to monitor trash and recycling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 John Markowicz,\u00a0Clairemont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cWith eye to stability, San Diego confirms new COO\u201d (Oct. 19): Interesting. I guess San Diego had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-506829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}