ENCINITAS ---- The Encinitas Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors Center it runs will be out of business unless the City Council quickly approves more funding, Chamber President Marshall Weinreb warned Friday morning.

Supporters of the chamber should appear at a 6 p.m. Monday emergency meeting of the City Council to support the funding, Weinreb wrote in an e-mail to various community leaders.

"If they decide to still withhold our funds, we are basically out of business, as well as the (Visitors Center), as we have ongoing expenses, which we will be unable to cover," Weinreb said. "As of Monday, they will owe us almost $26,000."

Encinitas City Hall was closed Friday; a call requesting comment was not answered.

The chamber has been struggling to bring its financial records back into order for the last few months.

It may have used city tax money intended to pay for operating the Encinitas Visitors Center for its regular business operations, according to a September report.

The report says there were "many irregularities" related to the chamber's financial paperwork from July 2005 through June 2009.

It was requested by the city government and produced by CFO to-Go Inc., an Encinitas-based accounting firm.

Weinreb, who became the chamber's CEO earlier this year, wrote in the e-mail that the chamber has cleaned up the problems found by the review, and the chamber now merits almost four months of expenses that have not been paid.

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