City Council agenda preview: The Red Barn’s fate, Quality of Life tax talk, drinking in parks
The City Council has a smorgasbord of items to cover for their regular meeting Monday night. Here is a sampling of what City leaders in your community will be discussing:
Rebeca Armendariz makes bid for Council seat
Community activist and long-time Gilroy resident recently announced that it's "time to take the plunge," to run for City Council, adding a fifth Council hopeful vying for one of three available seats.Â
In Arellano’s democratic club endorsement for supervisor, some cry foul
Gilroy City Councilman Peter Arellano grabbed the endorsement of
New name, new site for Visitors Bureau
When the Gilroy Visitors Bureau pulls up its downtown stakes and
New apartments coming downtown
A five-story apartment complex and the tallest building in the Garlic Capital—proposed to be 58 feet tall—is coming to downtown as soon as summer of 2016. The 263-unit affordable housing complex, developed by Idaho-based multifamily housing group Pacific Companies, is scheduled for construction on the southwest corner of 10th and Alexander streets.
Council readies for packed Monday night meeting
From raises for top city employees to the possibility of
CHSRA to pay for trench design study in Gilroy
The California High-Speed Rail Authority will pay to study a
Haglund: Mercury News wrong about pension pickups in Gilroy
A story published Sunday in the San Jose Mercury News was allegedly inaccurate when it reported the City of Gilroy picks up the tab for 16 of the pension contributions employees are supposed to foot, according to City Human Resources Director LeeAnn McPhillips.




















