The City of Gilroy will have its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in Council Chambers, located at 7351 Rosanna St. Here are some of the upcoming agenda items.
City Council looking for young blood
City Council will open the recruitment drive to fill seven open seats on the Youth Commission. Five seats are for two-year terms and will expire September 2015. The two remaining seats are for one-year terms expiring in September 2014. Applicants must reside within the jurisdiction of the Gilroy Unified School District and be ages 12-18. The interviews for the open seats will take place Sept. 16, 2013. Applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. Sept. 10, 2013.
Honeywell International Inc. is hot in the city
Staff is recommending that Council approve a three-year heating, ventilation and air conditioning contract with Foster City-based Honeywell International Inc. The contract is worth $344,249. The City has contracted Honeywell International Inc. for more than ten years, but the new contract would expand what the company does for the City, says Rick Brandini, facilities superintendent for the City of Gilroy. At present, Honeywell International Inc. provides full-service mechanical maintenance for 210,599 square feet of building space, including City Hall; Gilroy Police Department; three fire stations; the Senior Center; Wheeler Community Center; and Corporation Yard. The new contract would add San Ysidro Park; Las Animas Veterans Park; Willey House; and the Temporary Environmental Educational Center located at Christmas Hill Park to the list and increases the total square foot serviced to 229,809.
Gilroy takes out the papers and the trash…and you don’t get no spending cash
There will be a public hearing before Council decides to approve and adopt a 1.45 percent rate increase for solid waste and recycling services in Gilroy. If the increase is adopted, it will come into effect July 1, 2013 for residential and commercial customers. For the roughly 13,000 homeowners in Gilroy, it will mean an increase of 41 cents a month to $28.66 if they have one recycling bin, and 99 cents a month to $68.98 if they have four bins.
For commercial businesses in the city, those with a 2-cubic yard recycling bin will see their rate increase by $2.72 a month to $192.
Businesses with a six-cubic yard recycling bin that gets picked up six times a week will see a jump of $42.55 per month to a new total of $2,977.08, according to documents furnished by the City. Recology South Valley sent “Notice of Public Hearing” mailers to all of the roughly 13,000 homeowners asking them to submit complaints in advance of the hearing. If a majority of people oppose the increase then it can’t take place, according to Finance Director Christina Turner. As of May 28, Turner explained, the City had received 18 written complaints.
