Pub. 10 2021-2022 Issue 2

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Unemployment in August 2020 was high: according to Statistica, 13.54 million people were looking for jobs. August 2021 was better because by then, Statistica only listed 8.38 million unemployed people.

A third-generation San Diegan, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs attended local public schools before graduating from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Master of International Affairs degree in International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution.

Bill and Susan Hoehn are known across San Diego County for their involvement in the community and the family business, Hoehn Motors. They are pleased to represent the automobile industry in San Diego and excited about the reimagined San Diego Automotive Museum.

Masks and social distancing … sound familiar? Ugh. Add the heated conflicts between the “vaxxed” and the “unvaxxed,” and it seems like the long COVID-19 slog just keeps getting worse. That the rules and guidance keep changing is hardly helpful, either. Here are some questions and answers that are current and accurate as of this publication going to press:

As of April 17, 2020, Cal/OSHA had received over 1,500 complaints about employers who allegedly failed to provide proper protection during the ongoing pandemic related to the COVID-19 crisis. OSHA’s investigative powers are limited in its ability to fully investigate all these complaints. Cal-OSHA Reporter noted that in the first quarter of 2019, OSHA had investigated only 488 complaints. For 2020, the number of investigations will likely increase.

Your NCDA staff and Board of Directors have been working for more than a year with the San Diego Union-Tribune to create San Diego DRIVES, an exciting new digital platform that will transform how you buy used cars from private parties and sell new and used vehicles to retail customers. This new platform, available only to NCDA members, will enable San Diego County’s new car dealers to capture a much larger percentage of private party vehicle acquisitions and make it effortless for consumers to search new and pre-owned vehicle inventories. And best of all, NCDA members can join the platform for FREE. There are no subscription fees, and dealers only pay a flat $300 for each vehicle purchased using the platform.

No one could have predicted nearly two years ago that an impending global pandemic would impact our lives and businesses so profoundly. On the business front, dealers have had to adapt to new operational requirements quickly and make challenging decisions on a regular basis. Fortunately, our New Car Dealers Association (NCDA) was able to provide timely and essential guidance to help dealers comply with ever-changing regulations and protocols throughout the pandemic. And while our lives haven’t fully returned to a pre-pandemic normal, the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter as vaccination rates continue to improve and COVID-19 infections decline.