New East County Animal Shelter Sets October 15 Opening; School Bond Ballots Hit Mailboxes
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County Animal Services will open its new shelter at 452 Riverview Parkway in Santee on Thursday, October 15th — the same day the Bonita facility closes. The replacement schedule is firm. The new 23,000-square-foot facility includes upgraded medical space, modern kennels, a small-animal hospital, and the capacity to serve as an animal intake site during evacuations, a feature with direct relevance given the region's active wildfire and El Niño risk.
Santee residents should note an important operational distinction: the new county shelter handles adoptions and care for animals from unincorporated areas, while the city of Santee continues to rely on the San Diego Human Society for animal-control services. Those are separate arrangements. For those looking to act immediately, Heart of Gold was holding a shelter adoption event and donation drive Saturday morning at Petco Santee, 9745 Mission Gorge Road, starting at 10 a.m.
With ballots now in mailboxes, two East County school bond measures have entered active voting territory. Santee voters face Measure BB — a proposed $30 million Santee School District facilities bond requiring 55 percent approval — with supporters citing aging infrastructure and potential state matching funds. Board member Tracie Thill, who voted against placing the measure on the ballot, raised concerns about long-term taxpayer obligations and referenced the 2024 bond vote as context voters should consider.
In the La Mesa-Spring Valley Unified School District, Measure AA would authorize up to $131 million in school-facilities bonds, with an estimated average property-tax increase of $22 per $100,000 of assessed value running through 2057. In-person voting at the County Registrar of Voters opens Monday, October 5th. Separately, construction has begun on Spring View, a 145-unit income-restricted housing development at the Spring Street Transit Center in La Mesa — a transit-oriented project anchored by the Spring Street trolley stop.