Aug 3, 2018
The San Jose Unified School Board is going to see changes come the November election. Having made it to the runoff for Santa Clara County Supervisor District 4, Board President Susan Ellenberg will not run for reelection to the School Board. This vacancy has led to a faceoff between Helen Chapman and Peter Allen for Trustee Area 2. Chapman is…
Aug 2, 2018
As the November election gets closer, candidates are jumping into Sunnyvale’s City Council race. Mayor Glenn Hendricks and Councilmember Gustav Larsson are up for reelection and both will have an opponent. Hendricks is being challenged by Josh Grossman, a neighborhood activist, former school board president, and chair of Sunnyvale’s Housing and Human Services Commission. Larson will face candidate Henry Alexander III, an opponent…
Aug 1, 2018
There are three seats up for election on Campbell’s City Council and folks are gearing up to fill the spots. Mayor Paul Resnikoff and Councilmember Liz Gibbons, who are up for reelection, are campaigning to keep their seats, while embattled conservative Jeffrey Cristina is termed out of office. At the moment, there are two known challengers joining the race: Michael…
Jul 30, 2018
City of San Jose Placing a $950M GO bond on Nov.6 ballot Council will review the results of a community survey and may place a general obligation bond measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that would levy16¢ per $1,000 of assessed value to raise $950M, averaging $51M annually. The revenue would be used to: Upgrade 911 communications/ police/ fire facilities…
Jul 26, 2018
Santa Clara’s newly imposed election map has created one predominately minority voter district, pitting candidates of color against one another in an effort to give them a better shot at a Council seat. The remaining five districts are majority white. Of the candidates who applied for an appointment to the Council seat recently vacated by Dominic Caserta, only two are…
Jul 24, 2018
Yesterday’s decision by the Superior Court to create a six district electoral map in Santa Clara was followed-up by an amended Order, released today, that addresses the “sequencing” of district elections. The newly created districts that will be up for election are Districts 2 and 3. As with other cities that use the district-based electoral system, candidates for Santa Clara…
Jul 23, 2018
Today, Superior Court Judge Thomas Kuhnle ruled that Santa Clara will be subdivided into six electoral districts for the November 2018 election. It is anticipated that the City will appeal the judge’s order, possibly putting the current at-large election system back in play this November. The changes set forth by the ruling require the Santa Clara County Register of Voters…
Jul 23, 2018
City of Cupertino Report & input on developing a regulatory program for Short-Term Rentals The Planning Commission will provide comments for the development of a short-term rental regulation program. At the February 5, 2018 study session, Council requested that staff explore Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) collection from STRs and the development of a regulatory framework for STR compliance. Based on…
Jul 3, 2018
County of Santa Clara Approving resolution to call for ballot measure extending sales tax, with $50M annual revenue The Board may approve a resolution to place on the November ballot a measure to extend the current one-eighth of a cent sales tax on an ongoing basis, which would generate an estimated $50M in general fund revenue annually. The current sales…
Jun 29, 2018
Candidate for Santa Clara County Sheriff John Hirokawa has taken the position that racist, sexist and anti-Semitic texts by Santa Clara County deputy sheriffs are not an issue if those text were sent on their own time and on their own devices. Here’s why that’s wrong: bigotry, whether on the job or off the job, is an issue when you…