City planners to hold open house The...

City planners to hold open house

The city of Costa Mesa’s Planning Division will be holding an Open

House on Oct. 4 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Community members are invited to visit the Open House to learn

about new resources available to them, and to meet the city’s

planning commissioners and staff.

The Planning Division is on the second floor of City Hall at 77

Fair Drive, Costa Mesa.

For more information, call Senior Planner Kimberly Brandt at (714)

754-5604.

Resolution adopted to oppose consolidation

Coast Community College District Trustees on Wednesday adopted a

resolution opposing the proposed consolidation of the California

Community College Chancellor’s Office into a Division of Higher

Education reporting to the Secretary of Education.

The proposed consolidation was recommended in the California

Performance Review to help lower operating costs of state agencies.

If adopted, it would combine the office with the California

Postsecondary Education Commission, California Student Aid Commission

and Bureau for Private and Postsecondary Vocational Education under

Secretary of Education Richard Riordan.

Such a change would “drastically impact the governance structure

of community college districts around the state” and could

potentially have an “adverse impact” on Coast Community College

District, the agenda item read.

“The elimination of the Board of Governors and consolidation of

the Chancellor’s Office into a Division of Higher Education within

the bureaucracy of the executive branch of state government would

inevitably diminish the standing of the California Community Colleges

as a system of higher education in California,” the resolution

stated.

Classic car show to hit Corona del Mar

Classic car lovers should mark the date of the 2004 Corona del Mar

Coastline Car Classic, which will include hundreds of collectible

cars, displays and other exhibits. The event will be held from 10

a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Los Trancos State Beach parking lot at

Crystal Cove.

Sponsored by the Corona del Mar Chamber of Commerce, the car show

will benefit mental health services provider the Assessment and

Treatment Service Center of Orange County. For information, call the

chamber at (949)673-4050 or visit https://www.cdmchamber.com.