Politics

With the long arm of the newly created Morgan Hill oversight board threatening to lay claim to what’s left of the former redevelopment agency’s 2008 bond proceeds, the city council is poised to quickly spend the remnants of the $110 million in loans to spruce up the downtown. 

Hollister School District Trustee Michal Query has announced her resignation from the board, effective May 22, according to a statement from the Hollister School District.

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors is set to discuss a resolution Tuesday that would cut the compensation and benefit costs of unrepresented employees by 12.27 percent.

The San Juan Bautista City Council has removed the interim title from City Manager Roger Grimsley, extending the contract of the former engineer and longtime government worker who came out of retirement last summer to fill a leadership void created when Stephen Julian resigned in May.

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Revision of ordinance designed to keep longstanding billboard in place

CDBG funding request will provide shelter, job training

Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville) made a special appearance at Central High School Friday to speak to students. With about 100 or so students, Mayor Steve Tate, Morgan Hill Unified School District Superintendent Wes Smith and trustees Claudia Rossi and Ron Woolf, the assembly member spoke about his childhood and how he got to the state capitol. He said he was arrested at 16 while attending Watsonville High School and was put on juvenile probation. After another offense his senior year, the school told him with one more problem, he would be expelled. 

Assemblymember Luis A. Alejo announced the 2012 Woman of the Year for the 28th Assembly District.