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Making Your Mark

Category: Financial

Taking Counsel from Your Fears

05/26/2020 No Comments

As I’ve written about before the San Carlos School District is in dire straits due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of a joint discussion

Lending a Hand in a Time of Need

05/14/2020 4 Comments

This week I successfully lobbied my colleagues to direct our representatives on the “2+2” — the joint subcommittee of the Council and the School Board

Another Banner Year

11/20/2019 11 Comments

The city typically has two big financial events annually. The first, and the one that gets the most attention, is in the Spring when the

San Carlos Rewarding Monumentally Bad Behavior

05/15/2019 1 Comment

Some time ago my colleagues agreed to a suggestion I made about having staff put our banking services contract out for bid. While the then-current

Giving Back to the Community

11/16/2018 No Comments

At our November 13th meeting, staff presented the audited financial results for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. The Council ultimately ended up accepting

Should the Council Get Up to a 145% Raise?

09/26/2018 No Comments

At last Monday’s Council meeting, a discussion requested by Matt Grocott, to consider changing how much council members are paid, took place. Although no specific

Why I Oppose Pre-Funding Pensions

04/09/2018 2 Comments

At tonight’s meeting, the Council voted to pre-fund future pension costs, to the tune of $7.5 million. Doing this might, if things work out as

Why I Am Opposing Increasing the Hotel Occupancy Tax and Instituting a Cannabis Business Tax

04/09/2018 No Comments

At tonight’s Council meeting, staff was given direction to begin the process of putting two tax measures on this November’s ballot. The first measure would

Time to Plan for the Future

04/02/2018 6 Comments

This ran in the San Mateo Daily Journal on Monday, April 2, 2018. What would you do with $38,000,000? It’s a question we’d probably all

Investing Millions in a Project No One Requested

02/23/2018 3 Comments

This Monday, February 26th, the Council will be voting on whether or not to move forward with rebuilding the Holly/101 interchange. That sounds like a

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