Bases at risk in the San Diego Region

• Naval Station San Diego
• Naval Base Point Loma
• Naval Medical Center San Diego
• Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
• Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
• Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Headquarters and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (SSC San Diego)
• Naval Air Station North Island
• Naval Air Depot North Island (NADEP)
• Naval Amphibious Base Coronado
• Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach
• Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach-Fallbrook Detachment
• Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

With a unanimous vote of the San Diego City Council on April 22, 2003, EDC was asked to serve as the project manager for the region's response to the upcoming Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission process, slated for completion in 2005.  A working group has been established that includes the City and County, along with the Military Affairs Committee for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. The City authorized up to $30,000 in seed funding for this effort.

The City and County retained an experienced consultant, Bill Cassidy, Jr., a former assistant secretary of the Navy involved in previous BRAC rounds, to do an in-depth study on San Diego military bases.  CassidyÕs 300-page report made a compelling case for our mobilizing to keep our bases off the BRAC list.  Although San Diego County has the largest U.S. military concentration in the country, several other states have mounted efforts to retain their bases as well.  EDC has now retained CassidyÕs services for the remainder of the process.

In addition to a briefing to the San Diego City Council, BRAC activities included a standing room only breakfast program where key community members offered much support and responded positively to Bill Cassidy¹s presentation.  ³Let me emphasize how important it is that we don¹t just wait around a year-and-a-half and then start playing the political game,² he said.

William Cassidy bio: 
http://www.sandiegobusiness.org/PDF/William_Cassidy_bio.pdf

Cassidy's Full BRAC report:
http://www.sandiegobusiness.org/PDF/BRAC_Report.pdf

Cassidy's BRAC brief:
http://www.sandiegobusiness.org/PDF/BRAC_Report_Brief.pdf

For more information on San Diego¹s role in the BRAC Commission process, visit the Mayor's BRAC web site: http://genesis.sannet.gov/infospc/templates/mayor/brac_main.jsp.

National Association of Installation Developers (NAID) web site:  www.naid.org

BRAC News articles:

Rumsfeld certifies need for new base closures and says Pentagon has 24 percent surplus
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040323-1633-cnsbases.html

Protecting bases focus of officials, S.D. mayor at meeting:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20030425-9999_1m25bases.html

Airport authority to exclude certain sites, military airports still an option:

http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20030825tbb

Murphy, in D.C. trip, will defend local bases: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030809-9999_1m9trip.html

Murphy heads to Washington to discuss BRAC: http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20030808tlc

Pentagon says it will take creative approach to shrinking base structure:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20031014-1502-baseclosings.html