Moosa becomes Fallbrook CPG first vice-chair, Murphy becomes second vice-chair

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

When Jack Wood moved out of the Fallbrook Community Planning Area and resigned from the Fallbrook Community Planning Group, first vice-chair Eileen Delaney replaced Wood as the chair of the planning group. On Oct. 18, second vice-chair Roy Moosa became the new first vice-chair while Kim Murphy became the second vice-chair.

"I think it will be a great team. We are all on the same page. We want what's best for Fallbrook," Delaney said.

The planning group bylaws state that if the chair dies, resigns, or is incapacitated, the first vice-chair becomes chair for up to 60 days and an election must be called to determine the new chair. Delaney was selected as the chair for the rest of 2021 on Sept. 20. The chair has the prerogative to appoint the vice-chairs, so no vote was needed Oct. 18 to ratify Delaney's decision to give Moosa the first vice-chair position and Murphy the second vice-chair designation. Delaney, who had also chaired the planning group's Land Use Committee, appointed Steve Brown as the new chair of that committee.

"It's an honor to work alongside the various committee chairs and chair Eileen Delaney," Murphy said. "I'm more than happy to support the planning group any way I can."

Moosa initially ran for a planning group seat in 2006. "I wanted to make it more business-friendly. I thought they needed to have a business representative," he said.

He had started a business and was trying to erect a sign. Moosa learned that there would be a one-month wait for approval.

"I thought the planning group process should be streamlined when it comes to businesses. That's what motivated me to run," Moosa said. "It needed to be streamlined to make it easier for businesses."

The planning group has 15 seats. In 2006, voters were allowed to vote for up to seven candidates and the seven with the highest vote totals were elected. Moosa had the eighth-highest total. The 2008 election was for eight seats, and Moosa had the second-highest vote total.

"Eileen and I are probably the most senior members," Moosa said.

(Delaney was initially elected to the planning group in 2002.)

Moosa was raised in both northern New Jersey, which can be considered suburban New York City, and central New Jersey, which is more rural. "I came out to California to go to college," he said.

While Moosa was at the University of Southern California, he met a Fallbrook High School graduate at USC who spoke about her hometown. When Moosa's parents were planning to move from New Jersey to California, he remembered the comments of his college friend. "I told them to look at Fallbrook," Moosa said.

Moosa himself moved to Fallbrook in 1994 and joined his parents. "It really stems from an association with a girl in college," he said.

Prior to moving to Fallbrook he had lived in Orange County for approximately 10 years.

Moosa and his wife, Christine, have been married since 1982. They have two daughters, who are now 33 and 31; both daughters attended Fallbrook schools prior to graduating from Fallbrook High School.

He started his real estate business in Fallbrook in 2005. Prior to that, Moosa operated a video production company in Orange County whose products included television commercials and corporate training.

Moosa chairs the Fallbrook Community Planning Group's Circulation Committee, and he is also currently the president of the Fallbrook Village Association.

"It's just part of what drives me. I'm happy to do what's best for the community," Moosa said.

"I'm heavily invested as far as trying to improve Fallbrook," Moosa said. "I live here. I work here. I invest here."

Murphy was appointed to fill a vacant planning group seat in 2017. "I felt that they needed the voice of somebody who was actively running a business and raising children and being a part of the community. That's not to say that other people weren't," she said.

Professionally Murphy is a Realtor. "I felt that was a great little value-added piece that I could bring to the board to help with decisions," she said.

Murphy and her husband, Chris, and their two sons moved from Bonsall to Fallbrook in 2001. They had moved to Bonsall from Long Beach in 1992.

A clothing store called The Gap brought Murphy, who is originally from Ohio to California in 1978. She had been hired by The Gap to manage stores in Ohio and then transferred to the corporate office in San Francisco. Ocean Pacific Swimwear made Murphy a more lucrative offer, and Murphy was placed in charge of the western United States for the Ocean Pacific subsidiary Jimmy'Z. The Jimmy'Z position led to Murphy's relocation to Southern California.

Murphy's husband is originally from Dallas. "I hired him to work for me," Murphy said.

He was hired to oversee a five-state area for Jimmy'Z, and he came to California to become the vice-president of sales for men and boys merchandise.

Murphy and her husband then started a surf wear company called Sting, and their Bonsall home was Sting's corporate office. They made the professional transition to real estate in 1997. "We basically decided we were done with it. We were done being in the surf industry, so we both got our license in real estate," Murphy said.

Their two children are now 34 and 30. Both are Fallbrook High School graduates.

"I think the planning group is a very important group that really tries to preserve why people live here," Murphy said.