SAN DIEGO—The San Diego City Council passed an emergency ordinance Nov. 29 requiring all city employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. Dec. 1 or face getting fired. The mandate will also apply to all future city employees. City contractors also must be fully vaccinated, but they have until Jan. 3 to do so. The city has not made it clear what will happen to any city employee who is only partially vaccinated by Dec. 1. The council voted 8–1 to pass the mandate, with Councilman Chris Cate—the sole Republican on the council—as the lone no vote. Nearly 200 people wrote in and dozens called into the city council meeting on Nov. 29, the vast majority of whom were opposed to the vaccine mandate. Mayor Todd Gloria proposed the mandate on Aug. 26 and since then reached agreements with five of the city’s six recognized employee organizations. The …