More than 30 City Clerk professionals from across the state recently met in the Santa Clara City Council Chambers for the second California Ethics and Democracy Summit. Their effort was a unique collaboration to share community and voter engagement strategies and hear from some of the top City Clerk...
City Politics
SPONSORED
Here’s a short primer of court rulings that are relevant to the current SA lawsuit. Impartial reading indicates that the county superior...
SPONSORED
California’s Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state legislature’s dissolution (AB1X 26) of California’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs). “The legislative power vested in the...
If you’ve been to a Santa Clara supermarket recently you may have seen the anti-stadium group Santa Clara Plays Fair (www.santaclaraplaysfair.org) asking...
In upholding the RDA dissolution law, the justices took a dim view of the California Redevelopment Association’s argument that 2010’s Proposition 22...
In addition to its other responsibilities, Santa Clara’s City Council Members represent the interests of the city on a variety of county,...
The City of Santa Clara appears to have figured out how to build a $1.02 billion public facility and get someone else...
Santa Clara City Council members’ service isn’t limited to their participation in City Council meetings. They also serve on the city’s committees...
During elections we love to toss around hot air-filled slogans like “affordable housing,” “green building,” and “transit-oriented development.” But few of us...
SPONSORED
More than a few of us have said – or thought – that surely we could do better than California’s state legislature...