Running Water

The Willow Glen Neighborhood Association holds candidate forums for every important local election, and tonight’s meeting will feature the candidates for the County Supervisor seat as well as for the only contested seat on the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board. That’s right, this very one! The meeting is scheduled to run from 7 – [...]

If you’ll kindly turn to the last page of your sample ballot: And, if you vote by mail, please don’t forget to turn the ballot over:

Pat Ferarro, the retired SCVWD Director from District 2, by whom I’m honored to have been endorsed, sent me a picture of his smart car.

The Willow Glen Farmers Market opened this morning. I always go to buy fruit and vegetables, and today, I was also there to talk to voters. I had good conversations with many people, and even saw a few friends I hadn’t seen in many years. And, since I assume you don’t get all of your [...]

The task force for the new San José master plan met tonight at City Hall. On the agenda was water: water quality, water supply and floodplain management. The City’s Environmental Services Department gave an excellent presentation on watershed protection, then followed basically the same presentation on water supply as I saw at Thursday’s joint City-District [...]

Despite the fact that the amended District Act was recently passed 7-0 in the Assembly Local Government Committee, Scott Herhold is trying to keep the issue alive in today’s column in the Merc. I’d much prefer it without all of the “teenager-kegger” sniggers. The County oversight of the District was mostly theoretical, anyway; it’s not [...]

The new District Act is getting more press. The Mercury editorializes this morning that elected directors should be limited to 12 years. Somewhat bizarrely, the editorial says: Under the bill carried by Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Los Altos, on behalf of the district, the board, with part-time members, would remain at seven by breaking the county [...]

It stands for “Other Post-Employment Benefits,” and it means retiree healthcare for life. The Government Accounting Standards Board now requires public agencies to account for the cost of these benefits when they are earned, rather than when they are used. I blogged about this last month, but yesterday I was forcibly struck with how little [...]

(I’ve never understood how one can walk the talk.) View Larger Map I walked precinct 1652 today. Although it is at the extreme southwest corner of District 2, it has the distinction of being the precinct with the greatest percentage of voters who bothered to go all the way down to the bottom of the [...]