Politics

San Benito County publishes list for a total of $194,000 in unclaimed money

Faced with a trend of slightly tardy students, the Hollister School District will roll out a new policy next year: letters home to the parents of students who are chronically late to class by one to 29 minutes.

San Benito County Board supervisors are set to review proposed amendments to the oil and gas well ordinance Tuesday.

Racial tensions and segregation concerns over an affordable housing proposal on the west side added to an already chaotic public hearing Tuesday, as city council members repeatedly traded barbs with speakers and fostered an open, heated dialogue that defied open-meeting rules.

Agricultural commissioner Ron Ross recommended that the assessment fee for the mosquito abatement program stay the same for 2012-13 during a public hearing June 19, during which San Benito County supervisors concurred.

While they have fought against a federal agency for years, advocates pushing for Clear Creek Management Area’s reopening might get a chance to sidestep their foe at the Bureau of Land Management through newly introduced legislation. And while the door is now cracked open for long-dormant motorized vehicle use – supporters hope sometime in 2013 – the bill also appears to target an expansion to Clear Creek’s current boundaries comprising 63,000 acres.

Hollister council members Monday night were scheduled to consider a proposal in closed session to mandate closure of bars at midnight during the motorcycle rally, an idea that has one establishment’s owner “praying” officials reject it.

Hollister City Council members Monday are set to consider paying a firm to do a peer review of the roundabout design for San Juan and Graf roads and weigh distributing educational materials on use of the intersections.

Due to a lawsuit and the potential cost to fight it, San Juan Bautista officials are in the process of reinstating a ban against franchise businesses.

Morgan Hill resident and Gavilan College trustee Mike Davenport, who suffered a severe head injury when he fell off the roof of his motor home nearly two weeks ago, died as a result of his injuries at San Jose Regional Medical Center today.