News Roundup
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 2 April 2009 — Comments Off
- I’m bound to become a broken record on this (maybe in a good way), but how has the argument that a separate Hercules school district would be devastating for district teachers panned out? “Dozens of West Contra Costa County school teachers staged a ‘work to rule’ day at several campuses Thursday to protest the district’s attempts to reduce teachers’ health benefits. [...] The district, facing a $25.7 million deficit next year, recently issued more than 200 pink slips to teachers and has said it hopes to reduce expenditures by eliminating retiree health benefits for teachers hired after 2007.”
- Contra Costa County is seeking applicants to “make up the grand jury [and] serve for one year during which they act as public watchdogs, monitoring and reporting on city and county governments as well as special districts.”
- The City of Pinole is holding meetings “as the city prepares its draft Specific Plan for three commercial corridors in Pinole” — San Pablo Avenue, Appian Way and Pinole Valley Road.
- There is some resistance for plans to revitalize the Rodeo waterfront, which includes plans for “a 5,000-square-foot warehouse-and-shop building; three mixed-use buildings totaling about 20,000 square feet; an existing marine shop and a restaurant; berths for about 120 boats; a small-boat center mostly for kayaks; and possibly a bed-and-breakfast inn.”
- And an editorial from a reader in the Times stipulates, “that one day, BART will be in the city of Hercules.” I am not so sure about that, and I’m also not so sure Hercules would want a BART station since — as a terminus — it would almost certainly mean that the City would need to house the trains overnight (an unsightly yard that requires an exorbitant amount of real estate). If the yard were to remain in Richmond, and a proposed extension could be incorporated into the City’s New Town Center plans (a below-ground station perhaps), then that would surely be an attractive concept.
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