Politics

Panoche Valley Solar, which is developing the 247-megawatt solar farm in southern San Benito County, is hosting an open house to celebrate the opening of a new Hollister office. The open house is set for 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at The Vault, 452 San Benito St.

While the city’s code enforcement division started proactive enforcement Jan. 1, it also began the process of hiring a full-time code officer.

Hollister City Council members Monday are scheduled to weigh a contract approval to make Bill Avera the full-time city manager.

Companies such as Walgreens can routinely build new stores with a short turnaround, once given the green light. That hasn’t been the case in Hollister, and city officials are blaming Caltrans for the delay.

In a special meeting Monday night, the Hollister City Council voted 4-0 to designate the City of Hollister as the “Successor Agency” and “Successor Housing Agency” to the Hollister Redevelopment Agency in the event the RDA is dissolved as required by current state law.

The Hollister City Council on Wednesday approved layoffs of 36

A state water board report on Hollister’s two summer sewage spills notes how the city potentially violated the federal Clean Water Act and 10 state violations.

The Hollister city council narrowly rejected an idea to close a section of Nash Road in front of the high school while students are in class, but the superintendent of the campus didn’t know the topic was up for a vote.

County supervisors Tuesday agreed to make a case that San Benito is too small and inefficient to handle a new organic waste program by next year.

While Hollister planning commissioners Thursday are set to weigh whether to allocate 185 units for a proposed housing development along the Highway 25 bypass, city planners and top officials have another couple of months to complete a successor document to the recently expired “Growth Managerment Plan.”