Mayor Bates: “People will need to start contributing.” Mayor Bates: “People will need to start contributing.” The Berkeley City Council special session on the $310 million — or higher — unfunded liability on promised employee benefits revealed the difficult choices faced by the city. A presentation by budget manager Teresa Berkeley-Simmons made the root of […]
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Berkeley will lose $52,000 from parking holidays
The city will lose $52,000 in revenue when it gives drivers a parking holiday on Dec. 18 and 24. The city earns about $20,000 each day in parking revenues and garners $12,000 in parking citation revenue each day, according to a report prepared by City Manager Phil Kamlarz. Dec. 24 is a city employee holiday […]
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Parking holiday approved for Christmas shopping
Free parking on December 18 and 24/Photo: amlz on Flickr By Eric Klein At last night’s City Council meeting, council members voted for a city-wide parking holiday to spur Christmas shopping on Saturday, December 18 and Friday, December 24. All metered spaces will be free, and no parking tickets will be given for those metered spaces. […]
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Kriss Worthington confirmed as District 7 winner
Kriss Worthington On election night last Tuesday, only one of the Berkeley local races was technically undecided. In District 7, incumbent Kriss Worthington has captured 49.69% of the vote, just short of the required 50%. So it was clear that, barring a total sweep of second-choice votes by rival George Beier, Worthington would be reelected. […]
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City Council candidates respond to your questions
Berkeley Old City Hall. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Berkeleyside recently sent all the candidates for the City Council a set of questions, partly based on the suggestions our readers provided. Candidates are running in Districts 1, 4, 7 and 8. Of the 13 active candidates in the four districts, we received responses from six: Linda Maio in […]
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Election groundwork: Who’s running in November?
Old City Hall: four council seats are being contested. Photo: Wikimedia Commoms. Four Berkeley council seats and a variety of other Berkeley posts are being contested at the general election on Tuesday, November 2. Berkeleyside will have full coverage of all the races but, first, here is your quick summary guide to who is running for […]
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Will poetry be the key to voters’ hearts?
Kriss Worthington For his fifth bid for a seat on the Berkeley City Council, Kriss Worthington decided to try something unusual: communicate his message with a poem. Instead of submitting prose for his candidate’s ballot statement, Worthington turned in a poem. “I only have 200 words. What can you really say with 200 words? I […]
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Last-gasp bid to save Willard Pool eyes city subsidies
Willard Pool, circa 2009. Photo: protographer23 An eleventh hour attempt to save Willard Pool, at least for the summer, has been hatched by the head of a Berkeley neighborhood association and will be presented at tonight’s City Council meeting by councilmember Gordon Wozniak who supports the idea. The proposal, conceived by George Beier, the President of the […]
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Bates downtown plan approved
Arreguin: voted no The Berkeley City Council last night approved on an 8-1 vote Mayor Tom Bates’ revised plan for downtown. Prior to that vote, the council had unanimously voted to rescind the Downtown Area Plan which was approved last July in a 7-2 vote. The only objection to the new plan was from Councilmember […]
