Politics

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City Administrator Jay Baksa will retire Friday after 24 years

The City of Gilroy will approve and adopt a Memorandum of Understanding for a two-year contract with AFSCME Local 101 and the Gilroy Management Association at next Monday’s regular Council meeting. No deal has yet been reached with IAFF Local 2805 representing Gilroy's firefighters. 

A relief from the otherwise long meeting, the city council

The Gilroy Gardens Chinese light exhibit ‘Lumination,’ which was scheduled to end in November, has been extended until Jan. 8. The nighttime show of Chinese artistry made with tens of thousands of colored lights, has drawn tourists from all over and added to the park’s hours of operation. It will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. through most of December. It will be open every night from Dec. 16 to Jan. 8—but not Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Check gilroygardens.org for tickets, daily events and  schedules. 

The county's controversial plan that supporters say will

Gilroy is the fastest growing city in Santa Clara County with 1,159 new residents in 2016, according to a demographics report released by the California Department of Finance New State Population Report.

City Council is considering stepping up local enforcement of state law that prohibits the sale of tobacco to minors, but charging businesses an annual fee to fund sting operations to ensure compliance isn't the way to do it, Mayor Don Gage asserted.