While we are on healthcare... The Coastside Family Medical Center made it official, they filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday. This is just as three doctors who used to work at the Coastside Family Medical Center plan to open up shop in private practice...
And a check in on some intergovernmental disputes that Watch Dog likes so much...
- The dispute between the City of Foster City and the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District will take center stage on Thursday at the School District's Board meeting. You'll recall that the District's enrollment is due to grow a lot in the coming years and they need to new classrooms, so they are working with the City to identify City-owned land for new schools. Now, the City is a lot less interested in helping because the District would like the land at little or no cost. It seems the City Council in Foster City doesn't understand that when they approve new housing developments, the schools feel a brunt of the impact with new students... and those students need to go to school somewhere... If you want to follow this brouhaha, the City has its own webpage dedicated to the issue... Ironically, as the City of Foster City is pinching pennies when it comes to helping schools, they are spending money like drunken sailors on other capital projects -- up to $3 million worth will soon be fast-tracked...
- The Everest Charter School versus Sequoia Union High School District squabble is about to take another litigious turn. To refresh your memories: Sequoia said no to the Everest Charter School, which the Charter School appealed all the way to the State Board of Education, who finally said ok. The District then provided space in East Palo Alto for the Charter School, which the Charter School said wasn't good enough. Now there is about to be a legal battle as the Charter School prepares to sue because they don't want to be in East Palo Alto.
- Riptide has more details about the Sharp Park Golf Course hearing last week in San Francisco. The only thing that everyone can seem to agree on is that feelings were, and are, hurt as a result of the meeting... which is probably just how Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi wants it. See, in San Francisco, when wild public meetings happen, the focus is on the wild public meeting, not the policy that is about to be jammed down Pacifica's throat.
- And the intergovernmental dispute of all intergovernmental disputes (at least locally) -- Peninsula cities versus the High-Speed Rail Authority. The Chronicle is picking up where local papers (and bloggers) have been pointing out for some time: Peninsula cities want the train to be in a tunnel...
While the County giveth to help local nonprofits, the passage of Propsition 1E will actually take $2.52 million from County coffers and hand it over the State... Not much of a selling point to local voters, Watch Dog would guess.
With ideas like 1E, some (all?) of the State propositions on the May 19th ballot are losing in the polls... perhaps it's because nobody trusts/likes/respects Sacramento?
The Devonshire Canyon annexation/development will take a big step on Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors will approve the "tax exchange" -- essentially handing the land over to the City of San Carlos... There has been no official word from the woodrats about their position on this new development...If you like working on your call in your driveway and garage and you live in San Bruno, you could be SOL... The San Bruno City Council would like to put an end to excessive automobile work in your driveway...
Speaking of cars, it seems if you live in San Carlos, the chances are pretty good that you, or your neighbor, or someone on your street has had their car (or cars) broken into this year...
The Half Moon Bay bailout bill got altered a bit up in Sacramento. (This is Senator Leland Yee and Assemblymember Jerry Hill's effort to help Half Moon Bay stay out of bankruptcy court as it pays off its settlement to Chop Keenan.)
A man died while (apparently) trying to cross 101 in Redwood City on foot early Sunday morning...
And in 2010 election news:
- Sue Lempert breaks down the 2010 Governor's race in her weekly Daily Journal column. Of note, she seems to have a real beef with Attorney General (former Mayor, former Presidential candidate, former Governor) Jerry Brown. Also, by way of blogger correction, Republican Tom Campbell is actually from San Jose, according to our the Silicon Valley Dog...
- And while we are on big 2010 elections -- the Palo Alto City Council will see a shake-up in 2010. Two folks are termed out (Jack Morton and Yoriko Kishimoto - who is running for Assembly) and three more are coming to the end of their terms. Former Councilmember Larry Klein is expected to reenter the fray, but current Councilmembers Petere Drekmeier and John Barton have yet to declare their intentions...
And in other local blogs... David Lim chimes in again on his run for San Mateo City Council, breaking down his trip to the Consumer Protection Conference hosted by the the California District Attorney's Association (who do not endorse his campaign...)
Finally: Watch Dog screwed up (again!) last week... the Lehman Brothers hearing in front of the House Financial Services Committee is tomorrow...
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