Jim Wood (left), Oceanside's mayor, and Deanna Lorson, the assistant city manager, meet with Col. Kirk Gibbs (opposite), Col. Peter Helmlinger and David Van Dorpe at the city of Oceanside Harbor Office on March 15 to discuss the upcoming annual harbor maintenance project scheduled to start in April. The contract calls for the removal of 280,000 cubic yards of sand from the harbor's entrance channel and its placement south along Oceanside's beach.