Who Makes Up the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)?

The 18 cities and county government are SANDAG serving as the forum for regional decision-making. SANDAG builds consensus, makes strategic plans, obtains and allocates resources, plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of topics pertinent to the region's quality of life.

SANDAG is governed by a Board of Directors composed of mayors, councilmembers, and county supervisors from each of the region's 19 local governments. Supplementing these voting members are advisory representatives from Imperial County, the U.S. Department of Defense, Caltrans, San Diego Unified Port District, Metropolitan Transit System, North County Transit District, San Diego County Water Authority, Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association, and Mexico. The Board of Directors is assisted by a professional staff of planners, engineers, and research specialists.

Programs and Services:

Transportation:

As the regional planning agency for transportation, SANDAG allocates millions of dollars each year in local, state, and federal funds for the region's transportation network. SANDAG develops the Regional Transportation Plan to implement a long-range vision for buses, the Trolley, rail, highways, major streets, bicycle travel, walking, goods movement, and airport services.

Housing:

SANDAG, along with a coalition of business leaders, lenders, developers, realtors, environmentalists, housing advocates, and elected officials, is working to increase the supply and affordability of homes in the San Diego region.

For more information visit SANDAG website.

What DMV Does

DMV registers vehicles in California and licenses their drivers. This amounts to about 33 million vehicles registered and approximately 23 million licensed drivers.

Other major DMV functions include:

• Recording ownership (certificate of title) of the vehicles DMV registers
• Maintaining driving records (accidents and convictions) of licensed drivers
• Issuing identification cards for individuals
• Registering and recording ownership of vessels
• Licensing and regulating driving and traffic violator schools and their instructors
• Licensing and regulating vehicle manufacturers, transporters, dealers, distributors, vehicle salespeople, and dismantlers
• Administering the Financial Responsibility Law
• Investigating consumer complaints
• Maintaining records in accordance with the law
• Collects approximately $6.5 billion in revenues annually

For more information visit California DMV website.

What you can do online: Apply for benefits:

• Apply for Social Security retirement or spouse's benefits
  Note: If you're an Advocate, Attorney or Third Party Representative, we need additional information from you on the application.
• Apply for Social Security disability benefits (includes the Adult Disability Report).
  Note: If you're an Advocate, Attorney or Third Party Representative, we need additional information from you on the application.
• Begin or continue the Adult Disability and Work History Report.
  When you apply for any type of disability benefits, we need information about your medical, work, and education history to help us decide if you are disabled.
• Apply for extra help with your Medicare prescription drug costs.
• Check your application status.
  If you applied for Social Security Retirement, Spouse's, or Disability benefits you can check the status of your application online.
• Appeal our recent medical decision about your disability claim or continue the appeal you already started.

• Use our Retirement Estimator for a retirement estimate based on real time access to your earnings record.
  (The secure log-in requires your name, Social Security number, date & place of birth and mother's maiden name.)
• Use our benefit planners to calculate your retirement, disability and survivors benefits. (You can do this any time.)
• Request a Social Security Statement
  Get your personal earnings report and benefit estimates by mail.
  This service is available (Eastern Time):
  Weekdays - All Day (except 2 AM - 3 AM),
  Saturday 5 AM - 11 PM,
  Sunday 8 AM - 10 PM,
  Holidays 5 AM - 11 PM.
• Block online and automated telephone access to your personal information.

For more information visit Social Security Online website.

Gregory J. Smith, is the San Diego Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk. He has been with the County since 1977 and has been the County Assessor since 1983. Prior to that, he worked for the cities of Chula Vista and Sausalito. Greg received his Masters in Public Administration from San Diego State University where he is currently a part-time evening faculty member. In June of 1994, Greg was elected the Assessor/Recorder/ County Clerk for the County of San Diego and assumed the duties of Recorder/County Clerk in addition to his duties as County Assessor.

DUTIES: The primary responsibilities of the Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk include:

ASSESSOR - locate, identify and appraise all vacant land, improved real estate, business property, and certain mobile homes, boats and aircraft for property tax purposes.

RECORDER - duties include accepting and recording legal instruments (documents) required by law upon payment of proper fees and taxes. Functions include the maintenance of birth, marriage and death records and indexes for San Diego County.

COUNTY CLERK - functions include issuing marriage licenses and performing civil marriage ceremonies; registering Fictitious Business Name Statements, notaries public, process servers and professional photocopiers.

The Department is an important source of public information. We hope you enjoy browsing our Website and find it educational, informative and useful.

For more information visit San Diego County Clerk website.

We are responsible for administering two of California's major tax programs: Personal Income Tax and the Corporation Tax. We also have responsibility for administering the Homeowner and Renter Assistance (HRA) program, and other non-tax programs and delinquent debt collection functions, including child support debt collections and delinquent vehicle registration debt collections on behalf of the Department of Motor Vehicles. In 1999, the California Legislature gave us the additional responsibility for procuring, developing, and implementing the statewide child support automation development project.

To download tax forms online and much more visit California State Taxes website.

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The Post Office website provides a wide variety of services which are a fundamental change in availability of services and information. For example, users can look up ZIP codes, and purchase postage if they have an account.plementing the statewide child support automation development project.

You can find a list of their online services at the United States Postal Services website.

The official Website for the City of San Diego. This is the ultimate San Diego resource. Their directory covers anything from Business and residential services to leisure and tourist information, find what you are looking for here.

For more information visit City of San Diego website.

This website provides information on the services provided by USCIS to applicants, petitioners, authorized representatives, community-based organizations, and the general public.

Included among the immigration benefits the USCIS oversees are: citizenship, lawful permanent residency, family- and employment-related immigration, employment authorization, inter-country adoptions, asylum and refugee status, replacement immigration documents, and foreign student authorization.

In addition to administering the programs that provide these benefits, we also work to answer questions and find solutions to problems brought to our attention by the public, special interest groups, other government agencies, and the U.S. Congress regarding immigration concerns.

For more information and downloadable forms visit U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is one of the Department of Homeland Security’s largest and most complex components, with a priority mission of keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. It also has a responsibility for securing and facilitating trade and travel while enforcing hundreds of U.S. regulations, including immigration and drug laws.

For more information visit U.S. Border Patrol website.