GILROY
– William Borzone, of Gilroy, was named Thursday to Santa Clara
County’s Civil Grand Jury for 2004-05.
GILROY – William Borzone, of Gilroy, was named Thursday to Santa Clara County’s Civil Grand Jury for 2004-05.
The 18-member Civil Grand Jury serves as a government watchdog for the county and may investigate all aspects of county and city government, as well as special districts. It is an arm of the Superior Court.
Borzone, a retired public safety officer for the city of Sunnyvale, was the only one of the 27 jury candidates from the southern half of the county. His one-year term will end June 30, 2005.
Presiding Superior Court Judge Thomas Hansen announced the members of the new Civil Grand Jury at a ceremony Thursday in San Jose.
Just prior, the 2003-04 Civil Grand Jury was discharged. Among its members was Gilroy resident Jane Howard, also a member of the county’s Republican Committee, chair of the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce’s Government Relations Committee and a former president of the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education.
The recent Civil Grand Jury’s final and most prominent conclusion was that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority board was too political, too distracted and too inexperienced to properly handle a voter-approved plan to extend Bay Area Rapid Transit from Fremont to San Jose.
