City Politics

49ers Offer SCUSD Field Improvements, $15 Million to City in Return for Parking Rights at Youth Soccer Park

Carolyn SchukApril 15, 2015

A three–way deal among the City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara Unified School District, and the San Francisco 49ers may hold the key to providing alternative soccer fields for use during stadium events, improving schools’ athletic fields, and satisfying the City’s obligation to supply additional close–by parking for Levi’s...

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City Will Fund Convention Center Through June

Carolyn SchukApril 15, 2015

At a special closed session last week, the Santa Clara City Council voted to provide gap funding for the Convention Center from...

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City Desk: April 1, 2015

Carolyn SchukApril 8, 2015

Levi’s Stadium Financials Beat Expectations with Under-Budget Construction and Over-Budget Surplus Not only did Santa Clara’s Stadium Authority end the year with...

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City Desk: March 25, 2015

Carolyn SchukApril 1, 2015

Irvine Mission Town Center Proposal Adds Momentum for Downtown Revival As they say, if you build it they will come. Since Silicon...

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Kolstad Raffle Tickets: No Evidence for More Than Mistake

Carolyn SchukApril 1, 2015

Sometimes a mistake is just that. And that’s what Council Member Pat Kolstad’s Mission City Community Fund (MCCF) raffle ticket win seems...

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City Desk: March18, 2015

Carolyn SchukMarch 25, 2015

Most Vulnerable Citizens Paying for RDA Dissolution When the State Legislature shut down California’s redevelopment program, they also shut down a third...

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County Sentences Santa Clara Convention Center to Death by Bureaucracy

Carolyn SchukMarch 18, 2015

Last week Santa Clarans learned what’s important to the Oversight Board of the Santa Clara Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency (SA): paying lawyers....

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Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City

Carolyn SchukMarch 11, 2015

Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) has made...