Santa Clara City Council members’ service isn’t limited to their participation in City Council meetings. They also serve on the city’s committees and commissions. Here are Council assignments for the current year.
One of Santa Clara’s most venerable traditions is turning 100. On Friday, Teddy, the stuffed animal donated in 1911 by Alice Dixon Hillis, will make his hundredth trip to the top of the city’s 60 foot Christmas Tree. The story of how Hillis’ bear came to be a city mascot has been told and retold … Read more
During elections we love to toss around hot air-filled slogans like “affordable housing,” “green building,” and “transit-oriented development.” But few of us step up to the homework of making campaign slogans reality. Last Tuesday, the Santa Clara City Council and City Staff offered a lesson in doing that demanding homework with an hour-plus long discussion … Read more
More than a few of us have said – or thought – that surely we could do better than California’s state legislature at managing the state’s $68 billion budget. But, as most know, talking is easier than doing – especially when the subject is something we have no hands-on knowledge about. For those who are … Read more
The sun was shining both literally and figuratively on the Arts Walk Santa Clara last month when 50 walkers raised close to $13,000 for Bay Area arts organizations, according to event co-founder and producer Michael Morris. Since its founding in 2007, Arts Walk has raised about $45,000 for local performing arts groups. Morris is very … Read more
Soprano Nancy Wait Kromm is known for her engaging performances of new and interesting music. Her debut in November of Bay Area composer Henry Mollicone’s “Songs of the Human Spirit,” is just the most recent. From 2004 through 2008 Wait Kromm – a Santa Clara resident and Associate Professor of music at Santa Clara University … Read more
In 1962, an enterprising group of theater lovers, sponsored by the Santa Clara Parks and Recreation Department, put on a play in the Triton Art Museum. That show, “My Three Angels,” launched the company as an integral part of the local arts scene. Six success-filled years later, renamed the Santa Clara Players, the company began … Read more
Come New Year’s Day 2012, the 49ers stadium project will start moving ahead at a notably faster pace. So, despite the many demands of the holiday season, attentive residents will want to take some time out to review some important milestones in the nearly $1 billion project at upcoming public meetings. First, city staff plans … Read more
While California’s Brown Act establishes that public business must be conducted, well, in public, government agencies can hold private meetings to discuss things such as litigation, real estate transactions and labor negotiations. But they must disclose topics in advance, the legal basis for the closed session, and make final decisions public. Nothing in the Brown … Read more
Bicycle theft is on the rise in Santa Clara. The Santa Clara Police Department reports that about 200 bikes have been stolen in the city over the past three months, most of them in the Rivermark neighborhood north of Highway 101. And it’s not just expensive bikes that are disappearing. A $150 cruiser is as … Read more