Politics

Santa Clara County staff and supervisors are studying a proposal to require all new commercial buildings to install water bottle filling stations, also known as “hydration stations” and “drink tap” stations.

Gilroy City Councilman Perry Woodward says the city’s Open Government Commission – a panel he created and was later voted out of – wants to raise the local campaign expenditure ceiling $5,000 to assist his 2012 mayoral opponent, commission member and fellow Councilman Dion Bracco.

On the corner of Sycamore Avenue and East San Martin Avenue in San Martin, an empty, grassy parcel of land has generated some controversy in the small, unincorporated locality, between Gilroy and Morgan Hill. Middleton Consulting out of Tacoma Washington is in the application process to construct a storage facility for portable toilets on the land and some San Martin residents nearby think the idea stinks.

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