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LUSD Trustees call for bus route changes

By Keith Reid | Published: March 10, 2010 | 0 Comments
Lodi Unified Trustees on Tuesday night directed district staff to begin the process of making changes to bus routes, a cost savings of $2 million towards a $27.7 million budget shortfall. Here are some of the areas where savings will be found: Reduction in operational costs/staffing: $96,000 Routing changes, creating bus stop “hubs” for all grade levels: $560,000 Limit [...]
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Second try not a charm in effort to sell Lodi’s electric utility

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
David Christy, the Lodi man who wants to force the city to sell its Electric Utility, tried again today a request to circulate a petition in his effort. And again, he was turned away at City Hall. The problem, City Clerk Randi Johl told him, was that his filing still did not meet the state’s legal requirements [...]
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From the Sacramento Bee: At least we’re not as bad as San Joaquin County

By Keith Reid | Published: March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
State educators on Monday released its list of lowest performing schools. Nine schools (four from Lodi Unified) in San Joaquin County made the list. We’re still waiting on more specifics on why a school like McNair High was listed. There were three Sacramento schools on Monday’s list, and while education leaders there weren’t jumping up and [...]
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One year since courtroom attack

By Keith Reid | Published: March 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
It’s been one year since murder defendant David Paradiso attacked Judge Cinda Fox with a shiv in Department 25 of  San Joaquin County Superior Court, and was shot dead by a Lodi police detective. (Read today’s stories by Record reporter Scott Smith on that detective being cleared in the shooting, and Fox recounting the traumatic [...]
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Taco trucks getting unannounced inspections

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
At tonight’s Lodi City Council meeting, city leaders received a report from the Police Department on stepped up enforcement of code violations at the city’s popular lunch wagons. The last time the City Council discussed the issue of the roaving restaurants, some council members complained that they frequently found exposed cords, outdoor canopies and other code [...]
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At Lodi City Council: Flowing discussion over waste facility

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
There was quite a bit of discussion tonight about a planned new waste storage facility at the White Slough sewer treatment plant off Interstate 5. Lodi officials asked the City Council to authorize putting out to bid a proposed $5 million bio-solids storage facility at the sewer plant.  The money would come from leftover proceeds of [...]
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More budget notes from LUSD

By Keith Reid | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
It doesn’t matter much what the Lodi Unified School District puts on its board meeting agendas these days, the budget has been a giant elephant in the room going on two years now. Of course, unlike the cliché elephant in the room, everybody’s talking about this one. Tuesday night was no exception. As reported, there was [...]
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Tonight’s Lodi City Council agenda

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s tonight’s agenda. There will be discussions on sidewalk repairs, whether to accept a sculpture and a report from the Police Department on mobile food vendor code enforcement issues. I’ll post a few updates from tonight’s meeting on Twitter and Facebook (and of course, the blog).
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Lodi City Council considering water meter payment plan

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Lodi City Council met this morning to discuss, once again, how to best pay for the state-mandated water meter installation throughout the city. The state has mandated that all cities switch to meter-based billing to help conserve water. Problem is, many folks in newer homes already have paid for the modern meters. Older homes don’t [...]
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Read the appeal against Lodi’s Costco

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
While Wal-Mart is going through quite the legal slog, Costco’s bid to build in Lodi appeared to be sailing through without much opposition. So much for that. Click here to read the appeal for yourself. I’d also suggest you read this. Because of space issues with today’s story, I couldn’t go into as much of the background on [...]
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