Politics

Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez is hosting a special summit next week to showcase designs for possible "tiny homes" for use by homeless residents.

Local water guru Jeff Cattaneo told the Free Lance there is “significantly less” flow headed into the Hollister treatment plant in 2015 than there was eight years ago shortly before a long-standing building moratorium ended.

District trustees Monday approved work to make San Benito High School a closed campus.

In the next 60 to 90 days, construction will start on a water treatment plant that will “significantly” improve quality for residents in the middle and west side of Hollister, a water district official said.

Hollister City Council members Monday are set to hear the latest on the county water district's initiative to delivery recycled water for certain uses.

The Hollister School District and its teachers reached an agreement that gives instructors a raise and increases contributions to their health and welfare benefits, and significantly lowers the district reserve.

Even though they signed it in closing documents on their properties, about 60 percent of private owners living right near utility gas lines don’t even know it.

The mayor Tuesday said the city is adding language to the draft ordinance proposing to charge fees for some fire department responses that would narrowly define the negligence factor used to determine when someone is billed.

Hollister council members Monday put off moving forward on a previously approved ordinance creating new fire-response fees due to proposed changes in the language.

A local assemblyman's bill aiming to ban the use of the "Redskins" mascot in California's public schools passed the Assembly floor Monday, according to his office.