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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Five former members of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors turned out to today’s meeting, joining four current members present to honor retiring Clerk of the Board Lois Sahyoun. Here’s a picture: Sahyoun is in the middle. The rest, from left to right, are Steve Gutierrez, Steve Bestolarides, Ken Vogel, Dario Marenco, Bob Elliott, [...]
In today’s story, San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ken Vogel talks about the year to come in county government. He was officially voted in as the chairman at Monday’s re-organizational meeting on Monday. Here’s a video of his remarks after the vote. You can watch the summary video about the meeting here.
The Tuesday swearing in for incoming Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva and for new and renewed City Council members will be at the County Administration Building, not City Hall. It’ll be streaming live through the web page where the Board of Supervisors meetings are broadcast. Here’s the link. Silva had said he wanted to make the [...]
Stockton City Hall reporter Scott Smith posts on his blog today that incoming Mayor Anthony Silva wants to move the swearing-in ceremony for the City Council to the Sixth Floor of the County Administration Building. There’s more room in the room where the Board of Supervisors hold its regular meetings. The individual supervisors have their [...]
Last week state officials said there would be a cost-benefit analysis of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which includes building the so-called peripheral tunnel circumventing the Delta. It sounds like a win for local officials, who have been beating the drum for a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits of building the project, beyond [...]
