🌱 Mayor Wants New Spending + Where Special Needs Kids Can Shine

Happy Tuesday, neighbors! Here's everything happening today in San Diego.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and cooler. High: 69, Low: 58.

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Here are three of the top stories today in San Diego:

1. Mayor Todd Gloria would like to spend additional funds for programs to boost the quality of life for City of San Diego residents. Programs affected would include: the arts, homelessness, and parks, as well as large infrastructure projects. Sidewalks, library security, and policing for vacation rentals would be boosted. It would expand free internet access in low-income areas. In addition, it would increase aid for small businesses. Find out how this plan would be funded. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (The UCSD Guardian Online)
2. At the San Carlos Community Garden, special needs students can shine! The garden offers many learning opportunities. Students get hands-on experience in the garden, creating beds, composting, and harvesting crops. According to Jessica Leiser, an occupational therapist at the Sierra School of San Diego, “Activities in the garden address sequencing skills, motor planning skills, problem-solving, attention to task, and task completion, which are areas that are difficult for a lot of our students. The garden shows that with consistency, dedication, and patience you can see progress and results. Students can access the garden if they are experiencing emotional dysregulation or sensory dysregulation in order to self-regulate and take a sensory break.” The garden, which was established with a grant from San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Patch)
3. If you always wanted to try improv, here is your chance! Mockingbird Improv’s workshop is free to join, but registration is required. According to the workshop’s website, improvisation helps develop quick reflexes, builds self-confidence, fosters creativity, and increases spontaneity. Mockingbird Improv is San Diego’s only nonprofit improv theater. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (KPBS)

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Today in San Diego:

• Live Interactive Video Preschool/Kindergarten Storytime with Mr. Luan — Linda Vista Branch Library. (10:30 a.m.)
• DO YOUR HOMEWORK @ THE LIBRARY — San Ysidro Branch Library. (3 p.m.)
• Career Training/ Certificate Programs: SD College of Continuing Education information table — Malcolm X Library and Performing Arts Center. (3 p.m.)
• Tinker Tuesdays — Mission Hills Branch Library. (5 p.m.)
• Let's Taco 'Bout It (Virtual) — San Diego Youth & Community Services. (5 p.m.)
• SD Tree Week Concert: RYAN CABRERA — Water Conservation Garden. (5 p.m.

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