Politics

Voters in November will consider Measure Y, which would exempt

Voting has begun in the Nov. 8 election, as voters throughout California will receive ballots in the coming days—and can drop them off, completed and signed, at authorized locations now through Election Day. Elections officials in San Benito County began sending ballots in the mail...

Hollister City Council members Monday are weighing whether to adjust the rules for collection of impact fees for two projects upon request from those developers.

The board of supervisors is set to take up a measure Tuesday addressing the “inadequate level of security” at the new courthouse on Fourth and Monterey streets, according to the meeting agenda.

At a recent board of supervisors meeting, Supervisors Jerry Muenzer and Anthony Botelho were required to remove themselves from a discussion on the Williamson Act. During the public hearing, the supervisors were asked to consider if the property tax benefit should be lowered by 10 percent and contracts reduced to 9 years as a way to move $230,000 back into the general fund.

Hollister School District officials cited school parents as being “not the most consistent voters” – as noted in a paid survey consultant’s report – in deciding to place a bond measure on the November ballot instead of June.