Dedina highlighted several of the city’s accomplishments in 2018, including improved and safer streets, a growing tourism industry and a declining crime rate.
Imperial Beach is the safest beach town in San Diego County, Dedina said.
Dedina also reiterated his commitment to fighting for clean water in Imperial Beach.
"There’s been a broken sewer pipe in Tijuana for three months," Dedina said.
That broken pipe, with the help of a series of winter storms, is responsible for sending sewage, chemical waste and plastic pollution across the border, into the Tijuana River and into the ocean in Imperial Beach.
“I would love to see the city continue to dog Baja California and the international water authority to make sure we get that changed.
I mean these are waters that our children swim in," Imperial Beach resident Laura Wilkinson told FOX 5.
The City of San Diego is the latest to join in on the lawsuit.
“I’m really proud of what the city is doing and how the city is working with other entities in the county and across the border to get things done," Imperial Beach resident Bethany Case said.
I know supervisor Cox is working to get another 340 million out of Congress for the entire U.S. – Mexico Border.

LAGUNA BEACH — City officials on Tuesday, Jan. 22, are expected to approve a resolution to increase the city’s vigilance in protecting the ocean from urban runoff.
The City Council will review a resolution that follows guidelines established by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board to improve water quality along Laguna’s coastline by monitoring runoff that comes from inland communities.
To meet the permit requirements, Laguna Beach must adopt regulations to prevent polluted runoff, implement programs that promote architectural features that reduce runoff from new development, inspect existing developments and construction sites for runoff pollution and educate the public on how to reduce runoff.
In June 2018, the water quality control board approved plans by Laguna Beach.
On Tuesday, the City Council is expected to adopt the resolution for stricter regulations and appoint City Manager John Pietig to make sure no one violates the permit.
If you include inland cities run-off, it’s a huge win.
The inland cities are doing a much better job.” Decades of over-fishing diminished much of California’s marine life and prompted a massive effort in the late 1990s to establish a statewide etwork of Marine Protected Areas.
The beaches off Laguna were declared a Marine Protected Area in 2012, the result of efforts of a coalition of local organizations and individuals – collectively the Laguna Bluebelt Coalition – that wanted to restore Laguna’s marine life and habitat.
By 2015, local surfers, stand-up paddle boarders and divers reported an increase in variety of fish, tide pool creatures and kelp along the protected coastline.
Gray, blue and humpback whales are no longer a rarity in the picturesque coves.

Above: Irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif., May 1, 2014. A U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows all of San Diego County is now in a moderate drought. The Category 1 declaration comes a year after water officials declared the region’s drought was over. According to the Drought Monitor, a “moderate drought” means ongoing dry conditions could cause damage to crops, and a possibility of water shortages could develop. Warm and dry conditions have dominated the region for the past six months, with the exception of one storm…