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Dec 14, 2015

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Santa Clara County: Consider policy revisions to Equal Opportunity/Nondiscrimination provision in County contracts; County to pursue more robust pay equity assessment After a preliminary review on the County’s demographic data examining classified and certain unclassified County positions under the County pay ordinance and the Executive Management Pay Ordinance, the data showed the following: Female employees comprise 70% or more of…

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Dec 9, 2015

Candidates for Vacant Water District Seat Narrowed to Five

The candidate pool for the vacant Santa Clara Valley Water District 1 seat, has been narrowed from 21 to five. The Board is set to make the appointment tomorrow afternoon. The final five candidates, all of which received at least three votes during the candidate screening process earlier this week, are: Morgan Hill Council Member Rich Constantine, President of the…

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Dec 8, 2015

Morgan Hill Unified to Appoint New Board Member

There are many words that can be used to describe the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Education (Board), but “unified” is actually not one of them. The now six member board has consistently split 3 – 3, making virtually no headway on issues important to the education of our children. The citizens of Morgan Hill hope that the…

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Dec 7, 2015

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Santa Clara County Initial data on gender/race pay equity & direction on pay equity in County contracting policies Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) Pay Equity Study: In advance of the forthcoming pay equity study that will be undertaken by the Office of Women’s Policy and the Commission on the Status of Women, County Counsel and Administration have conducted…

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Dec 3, 2015

Morgan Hill Trustee Gerard Should Resign

The Morgan Hill Unified School District finds itself in yet another controversy, this time as a result of the extraordinarily insulting and inappropriate emails sent by Trustee David Gerard from his official email address. Gerard denigrated several of his fellow board members and the District Superintendent, but saved his most venomous slurs for then-Trustee Amy Porter Jensen, commenting on her…

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Dec 3, 2015

Vacant Water District Seat Draws High Level of Interest

The Santa Clara Valley Water District 1 seat, vacated by Dennis Kennedy due to his battle with cancer, has drawn a significant number of interested applicants, 21 to be exact. Rich Constantine continues to be the most viable candidate, currently serving as a Morgan Hill Council Member. Another familiar name is Jeff Cristina, the Mayor of Campbell. If appointed, Cristina…

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Nov 30, 2015

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City of San Jose Priority Setting Session Dec. 8; potential priorities include gender pay equity, downtown storefront activation, 1% development fee for art, more Council to approve new items for the Council Priority List to create an updated, rank-ordered list. The process for establishing Council Priorities at the Dec. 8th meeting are as follows: Nominated Ideas Voting – Council will…

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Nov 19, 2015

Former Assembly Member Jumps into 30th Assembly District Race

The race for Assembly District 30 is heating up. Today, Anna Caballero, the Secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency officially announced her candidacy for the seat.  Prior to serving in the Brown Administration, Caballero served in the California State Assembly from 2006-2010 and held the seat of Mayor and Council Member of Salinas for 15 years. She ran…

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Nov 16, 2015

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Santa Clara County   Proposed changes to County policy regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers / notification requests The board will consider adopting a Policy Resolution as proposed by Board President Cortese relating to civil immigration detainer and notification requests.  It will also consider directing Administration to develop a Memorandum of Understanding with DHS & ICE contingent upon adoption…

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