City gets ‘movement and cooperation’ with URM problem
While dealing with downtown Gilroy’s unreinforced masonry buildings has been like “pulling teeth,” the city and individual property owners say they’re making progress in bringing the structures up to the city’s earthquake safety code.
Gilroy keeps out cannabis sales
Unlike what’s going on in neighboring Hollister, the green dreams of pot entrepreneurs in Gilroy are drying up.
The city has already legislated against medical marijuana dispensaries and will take action in the next few weeks to ban recreational growing and sales of cannabis.
“We have...
CPI provision removed from Alejo’s minimum wage bill
Assemblyman Luis Alejo’s bill proposing a minimum wage increase passed through a key Senate committee Wednesday, but only after legislators removed a provision that would have attached the figure to the Consumer Price Index.
City hires firm to gauge voter support for ‘Quality of Life Bond’
Following Mayor Don Gage's explanation of the “why” behind his proposed plan for a “Quality of Life” bond measure, Council members listened to the “how” from the City's Finance Director Christina Turner and President /CEO Catherine Lew of the Oakland-based Lew Edwards Group, during Monday night's regular City Council meeting.
Council debates proposed election ethics ordinance
For the first time since it was conceived by a city open
Council directs city administrator to freeze wages
The City Council directed City Administrator Tom Haglund to
