If you live (or park) in Burlingame, hold on to your wallets. The City is coming for your money on a number of fronts. A drainage fee may be on your local ballot in May and it could cost you up to $2,060. This is on top of the expected garbage rate increases...ouch...And if garbage and drainage wasn't enough, parking tickets in Burlingame are going to be more expensive too...
Coming on board just in time to deal with angry residents suing the the City for all of the rate/fee hikes, Burlingame names a new City Attorney -- Clark "Gus" Guinan.
Watch Dog was late to this one (obviously), but the standoff/hostage situation in unincorporated Redwood City ended peacefully yesterday.
And the other high-profile gun-fight/stand-off has a new twist. Relatives of the slain suspect are hiring a private investigator...the question is, are they hiring Spencer or Magnum? They aren't buying the police account of the events.
San Mateo got a new "tree-hugging" Mayor, Brandt Grotte -- who is taking the place of Carole Groom. This is a revolving Mayor -- so there was no coup...the "tree-hugger" title is his own self-description.Menlo Park will get a new Mayor tonight as Heyward Robinson will take over. Rich Cline will become the Mayor Pro Tem.
And while a peaceful transition of power was happening in San Mateo (and MP tonight), in Daly City, outgoing Councilmember Judith Christensen was "jeered" at her last meeting. She responsed, "Standing up and speaking up has a price..." Apparently.
Palo Alto put its own bike-sharing plan on hold in lieu of a more regional plan...
Palo Alto will conduct an audit to shed light on the racial profiling issue that caused its Police Chief's exit. The auditor gets paid $205/hour. Let's hope the audit doesn't take too long...
Two men from Milpitas died while fishing off Half Moon Bay last weekend.
Pacifica is putting together a new General Plan Committee. Watch Dog knows that doesn't sound that exciting, but have you ever sat through a General Plan Update? Heated. Really.
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