Tuesday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors started with a blitz of presentations. May 8 was declared the “Day of the Teacher,” and May 10 was “Child Care Provider Appreciation Day.” The week started on May 19 w was declared “Delta Appreciation Week.” The whole month of April was “Autism Awareness Month” and May is [...]
The county is in contract talks, again, this year with various labor groups, including Service Employees International Union Local 1021. It represents the largest bargaining group of county employees. Last week, the union put out notice that local businesses could get some free ad space in the weekly updates on those talks. Here’s the announcement: [...]
Larry Teunissen has been a regular at the public comment period at meetings of the Board of Supervisors. His friend has been missing for more than 30 years, and Teunissen has some theories about what has happened to him. Today, Teunissen tried a different approach to try and get the supervisors’ attention, starting out with [...]
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal that would keep the Woodbridge Wilderness Area open to the public two weekends a month. The park is currently opened the first and third weekends of the month with help from volunteers from the Friends of the Woodbridge Wilderness areas. Volunteers have [...]
San Joaquin General Hospital has been under a slow transformation over the past few years, and this year will be the time for significant developments set in motion when the transformation started. But all this is not happening in a vacuum. The county hospital is just one piece of the network of health care in [...]
City Hall reporter Scott Smith reported today that Councilwoman Kathy Miller is exploring a run for the District 2 seat on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. Former council members do often run for the board. The seat is currently held by Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller, himself a former City Council member, elected in 1996 [...]
San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ken Vogel was on Comcast Newsmakers, talking about the year to come in the county. You can watch the video here. Vogel talks about the ongoing challenges of jail capacity, new county responsibilities handling criminals and the county’s perspective on the state of the Delta. He also said [...]
The Record’s editorial board weighed on the the health benefits received by the San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control District. The trustees reaffirmed the benefits at their last meeting. The San Joaquin County Taxpayer’s Association has had a vector in its bonnet about the benefits since last year. The district has defended the benefits, [...]
Stockton City Limits has a post today about the on going construction on Interstate 5 through Stockton. Though the blog’s author David Garcia supports improving the surfaces, he says the congestion relief provided by the new lane would eventually be lost because of something called “induced demand.” He writes: “The concept of induced demand is [...]
A crew from CBS13 were at the Tuesday meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Reporter Laura Cole talked to board members during the public comment portion of the meeting, asking for them to push for the release of documents related to the case of killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. With them was Michelle Loftis, [...]