Palo Alto:
Raise the Wage
Colleagues Memo from Council Members Berman, Burt, DuBois, and Wolbach Regarding a City-Wide Minimum Wage Ordinance.
The Council is being asked to:
1) Refer the matter to the Policy and Services Committee. Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to provide adequate staff support for the analysis and recommendations, modeled after ordinances in Sunnyvale and Mountain View.
2) Request the Committee to recommend to the City Council terms of a local minimum wage ordinance that would set a near term base wage, inflationary adjustments and long term goals.
3) Request the Policy and Services Committee to explore with the City Manager and City Attorney and make recommendations to Council regarding a strategy for outreach/education, investigation and enforcement of violations.
Palo Alto City Council
Feb. 9, 2015, 7:15 pm
Link to item: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=45733
Link to agenda: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=45751
Miliptas:
Newby Island Opposition
City appealing San Jose approval of Newby Island Landfill Expansion and opposing state permit
1. The City of Milpitas’ appeal of City of San Jose’s Approval of Planned Development Permit PD14-014, before City of San Jose Planning Commission. [This permit was issued to approve the vertical expansion of the Newby Island landfill.]
2. City of Milpitas’ Opposition to proposed solid waste facility permit for Newby Island before the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)
February 3, Milpitas City Council
Link to agenda: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_pdfs/council/2015/020315/agenda.pdf
Santa Clara County Board of Education:
Decision on Wei Yu International Charter School Petition
On November 24, 2014, the Santa Clara County Office of Education, Office of Innovative Schools (OIS) received a charter petition from Jun Dong, Lead Petitioner, seeking approval to open Wei Yu International Charter School. This petition was submitted on appeal from Moreland Unified School District, having been denied by the District’s Board of Education on November 18, 2014. The Santa Clara County Board of Education held a public hearing on the petition on December 10, 2014.
Staff has found that the charter petition:
– presents an unsound educational system
– the petitioners are demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition;
– The petition does not contain reasonably comprehensive descriptions of each of the required elements of a charter petition.
Accordingly, staff recommends that the Board adopt the Resolution to Approve with noted conditions that would require petitioners to correct these deficiencies, or conversely, adopt the Resolution to Deny.
Link to item: http://www.sccoe.org/countyboard/Documents/2014-15/020415/10B.pdf
Gilroy
Council Urges Sale of Hospital to Prime HealthCare Services
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gilroy in Support of the Sale of the Daughters of Charity Health Care System to Prime Health Care Services.
Issue summary: City of Gilroy supports the sale of the Daughters of Charity Health Care System to PRIME Healthcare Services. The city states the following reasons for their support for this sale:
Daughters of Charity Health System is near bankruptcy and in danger of closing its doors if the sale of the healthcare system to Prime Healthcare Services is not approved. Currently the DOC is facing a $10M a month deficit-and if the sale to Prime is not finalized, bankruptcy and hospital closure will the only option
The need for a locally operated hospital is paramount, and the health risks for the residents of the South County residents will be in peril if they do not receive immediate access to sophisticated hospital care
The sale of Daughters of Charity Health System to Prime will preserve and protect the operation of Gilroy St. Louise Regional Hospital.
Due to those main reasons, the City Council of the City of Gilroy supports the sale of the Daughters of Charity Health System, including the sale of St. Louise Regional Hospital, to Prime Healthcare Services, a for profit entity, as the best option to continue the legacy of the DOC in providing healthcare services to South County residents. The council urges Attorney General Kamala Harris to approve the sale of the DOC system. The Council is looking to sign the resolution on March 2, 2015.
Link to agenda packet: http://www.cityofgilroy.org/CityOfGilroy_Files/city_hall/meetings/73979356_02-02-15%20City%20Council%20Packet.pdf
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