GILROY
– The Gilroy City Council will consider the following items of
interest at its meeting Monday:
GILROY – The Gilroy City Council will consider the following items of interest at its meeting Monday:
• A special meeting with the Gilroy Police Department. The Council will receive an update from architect WLC Associates on the new police station and why all three bids for the facility came in more than $8 million higher than engineers’ estimates of roughly $17.8 million for the building itself and a two-story underground parking garage.
• A presentation by the Santa Clara Housing Action Coalition regarding affordable homes and housing densities.
• A proposal to sell up to $47 million in auction-rate certificates of participation to finance the city’s 2003 public buildings project.
• A public hearing on the city’s 2003-2008 financial plan, which includes next fiscal year’s budget and four years of projections. The Council would adopt next year’s budget.
• A proposal to increase the voluntary expenditure ceiling for candidates and controlled committees in municipal elections.
• A public hearing on a proposal to ban new bars and dance halls without food, head shops, tattoo parlors and used car lots in the downtown area for 45 days.
• A Stewart Fahmy request to subdivide four acres into 12 residential lots, with two existing single family residential lots, at the southwest corner of Tatum and Wren avenues.
• A request to extend the life of city growth-control building allotments for phase four of the Country Estates subdivision.
The special meeting on the police station begins at 6 p.m., with the regular meeting following at 7 p.m. Both occur in the City Council Chambers, Gilroy City Hall, 7351 Rosanna St.
For more information, call 846-0204.
