A tight budget means that no “rockets’ red glare” will light up the Santa Clara sky at this year’s July 4 city picnic. “It’s not just the cost of fireworks,” Deputy City Manager Carol McCarthy explained last week to the City Council. “It’s a staffing issue. We don’t have...
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Santa Clara’s hide-the-redevelopment-money maneuvers could come back to haunt the city in the form of cuts in core services such as education...
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Roll Call All Council Members were present. Approval of Minutes The minutes from the City Council meeting of February 8 were unanimously...
In 2009 State Controller John Chiang launched an audit of 18 California RDAs – Santa Clara wasn’t on that list, but Fremont,...
At an emergency meeting Monday, the Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and Stadium Authority (SA) voted to transfer $4.5 million from the...
Thanks to California’s State Controller John Chiang, Californians (at least, computer-literate ones) can, for the first time, easily find out what public...
On Saturday, March 12, the City Council will hold a Goal Setting Program at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America...
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Josephine Rowen, 1926-2011, Championed Government Openness and Accountabiity
In the more than seven decades that she lived in Santa Clara, there were few public questions that Santa Clara community leader...
On Saturday, March 12, the City Council will hold their Goal Setting Program at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America...
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Depending on whom you ask, Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to shutter California’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs) would return billions to local governments and...