Santa Clara taxpayers paid for the land on which the Hyatt, Hilton, Great America, Techmart and Irvine properties sit. In return, $14 million in lease revenues pad for public services like street maintenance, libraries and parks. Now the County gets all of it as “clawbacks” under the law shutting...
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Appointments At the July 7 meeting, the Santa Clara City Council appoint John Martinez to Parks and Recreation Commission. A Santa Clara...
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SCUSD Five-Year Budget Forecast The Santa Clara Unified School District’s five-year budget forecast shows the district with deficits in 2016-17 and 2017-18....
Pomp and Circumstance Awards and honors was the theme of the June 23 Santa Clara City Council meeting. The 2015 Silicon Valley...
Commemorative Statue Commission Goes to Bay Area Sculptor Linda Serrao At the June 23 City Council meeting, it is expected that the...
Five Year Plan Shows Steady Revenue Growth, Surpluses What a difference five years makes to Santa Clara’s five-year financial forecast. In 2010,...
Council Extends Convention Center Funding Through June 2016 Santa Clara officials are optimistic that there’s an avenue to retaining ownership of the...
Growth, Not Soccer Fields, Dominates City-School Liaison Committee Some assumed that last week’s Santa Clara City-School Liaison Committee meeting would be another...
Budget Forecast: Revenues Up, But Utility and Pension Costs Are Concerns Santa Clara’s 2015-16 budget forecast starts with a budgeted $7 million...
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New California Student Assessments Are Here After a year’s hiatus, standardized state tests are back. The new California Assessment of Student Performance...