Jun 22, 2015
Santa Clara County Adopting resolution to apply Living Wage to County employees Agenda Item Name: Adopt Board Policy Resolution adding Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual Section 4.21 relating to the applicability of the Living Wage standards to County employees, and direct the Clerk of the Board to include Policy in Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual. Tweet
Jun 15, 2015
Santa Clara County Inventory & evaluation of County-owned lands & opportunities to purchase other public lands, incl. former RDA properties Date/time/location item will be heard: June 18, 2015, 10 am, Santa Clara County Housing, Land Use, Environment & Transportation Cmte Tweet
Jun 8, 2015
Santa Clara County Creating a County Economic Development Strategy Date/time/location item will be heard: June 11, 2015, 1 pm, Santa Clara County Finance & Government Operations Cmte Tweet
Jun 1, 2015
VTA Adopting final goals for Envision Silicon Valley proposed tax measure At is June 4th meeting, the VTA board will adopt the final draft goals for Envision Silicon Valley, a new effort where VTA will engage community leaders discuss current and future transportation needs, identify solutions and craft funding priorities. Tweet
May 28, 2015
Former San Jose City Council member Madison Nguyen is set to launch her campaign for State Assembly to succeed Nora Campos in 2016. She’s sending invitations for her May 29 kickoff to local labor leaders, hoping to gather their support along with some of the much less labor-friendly allies she has, including former Mayor Chuck Reed. Tweet
May 28, 2015
It’s a startling number: $520 million. That’s the annual cost of homelessness in Santa Clara County, according to a newly released study sponsored by Destination: Home. What does that number account for? More than $300 Million is for health care…every year. $131 million in costs related to the justice system…every year, and social services run more than $77 million…every year. …
May 26, 2015
Sunnyvale Adopting Housing Impact Fee To be heard: Wednesday, May 27, 7 pm Planning Commission One Ordinance and Two Resolutions to Approve Two New Affordable Housing Impact Fees: Housing Impact Fee for Nonresidential Development and Housing Impact Fee for Rental Housing. Recent Council direction to expand the Housing Mitigation Fee and to establish a new fee for rental housing developments requires…
May 22, 2015
The South Bay Labor Council’s Communications Director is taking off for a new adventure starting next month. Stacey Hendler Ross came to the Labor Council three and a half years ago to help fight the good fight, and there were big wins, including the San Jose Minimum Wage hike, the Santa Clara County Living Wage ordinance and the election of…
May 20, 2015
The City of Sunnyvale continues on its path to do more to help improve the lives of working families in the South Bay. City Council member Jim Davis deserves kudos for leading the way on a proposed ordinance that will ensure that large-scale private developments hire, employ and provide on-the-job training to apprentices. Why is this so important? Even during…
May 18, 2015
Rising star Ash Kalra, San Jose City Council member and CA Assembly candidate, had the distinction of co-hosting the Indian American caucus reception at the state Dem Convention this past weekend. Too bad it was marred by the outrageous gaffe made by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Kalra chose not to make a public statement on the insensitive blunder Sanchez…