Salary, pension talks holding up final budget
Final public sessions on the City of Healdsburg’s 2010-11 budget
Voters will decide on legalizing marijuana on Nov. 2
The people of the state of California will decide next week
Sebastopol Police Logs, Sept. 13-19
The following are crimes excerpted from Sebastopol Police Department daily crime log entries and listed at the time the alleged violation was reported.
Fire survivor’s struggle to find respite in senior community highlights housing conflict
Young women voted out of 55 plus community
Future of fire services
The future of Healdsburg’s fire fighting services could look very different from what we all have become used to over many previous decades. The fire trucks and the siren alarms will be the same and the volunteer and paid emergency and safety teams will likely remain in place. But who is in charge, and how everything gets paid for could change dramatically.
No new business at next council meeting
The next meeting of the Cloverdale City Council, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. will be small, and likely short in duration. The council will be viewing one presentation, approving its consent calendar and discussing no new business items. The meeting will take place virtually over Zoom and will be broadcast on the city’s YouTube channel. To view the agenda, click here.Â
Commentary: The problem with Calpers
CALPERS is the pseudo government agency set up to manage the defined benefit retirement program for government employees. Their charter is to collect retirement contributions, invest these contributions to maximize return and provide defined benefits to the actual retiree. CALPERS is controlled by and largely for the benefit of the legislature and government employees. Â
Enrollment numbers continue to fall, but solutions are tricky to find
At the Nov. 5 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Allison Griggs, program coordinator for educational services, presented the annual enrollment numbers for the district, and the grim pattern of falling enrollment continues to be cause for concern.