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Category Archives: City Hall
In Contest For Berkeley Lab Campus, It’s Not the Lab That Counts
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Emeryville Councilwoman Ruth Atkin Relents, City Attorney Ballot Initiative to Go Forward
(Reprinted from the Emeryville Tattler) by Brian Donahue Nora Davis and Kurt Brinkman holdout to the end Barraged with calls and e-mails from constituents, councilwoman Ruth Atkin finally relented today and agreed to permit a November ballot initiative to eliminate … Continue reading
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Message from Emeryville Councilwoman Jennifer West: City Attorney Ballot Initiative
Special Meeting of City Council Required to Get the Issue on the November Ballot (Reprinted with permission from Jennifer West’s Blog). Enough residents have signed a petition (10% of registered voters) to have a ballot initiative placed on the November … Continue reading
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E-VILLE LEAKS: Nice Work If You Can Get It (City Attorney Mike Biddle’s Generous Employment Contract)
The Secret News introduces: E-VILLE LEAKS This section will feature verbatim reports, memos, and other city documents that we believe contain important and useful information. Please let us know if you have a document to share. If you wish to … Continue reading
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Letter to the Editor: Eliminate Emeryville’s Redevelopment Agency and Eliminate the Abuse
The Redevelopment Agency in Emeryville is a fiasco: money for developers, bankers/brokers, attorneys, and consultants. Emeryville runs a tight little agency with many city staffers working on mostly redevelopment agendas. Where do the property taxes go? They go back into … Continue reading
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Save Oakland Libraries – “Read-In” Monday, June 20 at Oakland City Hall
In the face of a major budget crisis, Oakland is considering closing 14 of its 18 libraries, including Golden Gate on the Emeryville border. Other locations to be closed are Asian, Brookfield, Cesar Chavez, Eastmont, Elmhurst, Lakeview, Martin Luther King, … Continue reading
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Letter to the Editor: City Council Should Address High Cost, Job Performance of City Manager & City Attorney
Letter to the Editor re: Should Big Business Pay Their Fair Share? (May 16, 2011) Once again, it is broken record time. While it’s true that great sums of money are involved when we talk about big business paying more … Continue reading
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Should Big Business Pay Their Fair Share? City Council Says “Let the People Decide.”
The Emeryville City Council last night ignored Pixar’s pleas and instructed the city attorney to begin preparations for a November ballot initiative on whether business taxes should be raised. In a stunning 5-0 vote that featured two reversals, the council … Continue reading
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Should Big Business in Emeryville Pay Their Fair Share?
For years, the City Council has given the city’s biggest businesses the biggest tax breaks. Residents and small business owners in town have begun to ask why. On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether to put an initiative on … Continue reading
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