Politics

For the past year, Gilroy Mayor Don Gage and Council Member Perry Woodward have been individually meeting with owners of downtown’s 18 unreinforced masonry buildings and city staff. The pair claimed a victory this month; two buildings have been officially taken off the list of structures deemed unfit to survive a high magnitude earthquake after sufficient retrofitting.

By April 2015, contractors working between Santa Teresa Boulevard and the Uvas Creek Corridor are expected to complete the first phase of the largest development Gilroy has ever seen.

Gilroy City Council unanimously approved a series of 2 percent salary increases for both the city clerk and city administrator at the April 21 meeting.

Gilroy Public Library-goers may get an eyeful of art before hushing into six-inch voices— not before the city’s public art officials get a good look.

A small protest by environmentalists at Silva's Crossing in Christmas Hill Park earlier this month helped spur city officials into action after the group shined a spotlight on piles of tree trimmings left on trails near Uvas Creek by Gilroy city officials.

Four Live Oak High School students urged the mostly Hispanic contingent of adults in attendance for an April 21 Cinco de Mayo community safety meeting to not show up in front of their school May 5 like two other groups have planned.

At least a dozen individual downtown business owners—some entrenched in the Garlic Capital since the 1960s and others who set up shop less than a year ago—are stunned the city banned a wide variety of signage they say helps bring people through the front door.

Gilroy council chambers were packed Monday night, more than they have been in nearly five years, as former Gilroy Dispatch executive editor Mark Derry was recognized by the city he continues to call home.