City budget: “We’re going to do less with less”
In what has become an almost perverse annual ritual, Alameda’s city leaders discussed how they plan to address a projected $5.1 million deficit in next year’s general fund budget and bigger deficits in...
View ArticleAlameda limited in efforts to trim pensions
The failure of the Measure C sales tax initiative brought a trickling of residents into Alameda’s City Hall on June 12 who said they think city leaders should pursue a different strategy for attacking...
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A 2010 report on the sustainability of the City of San Jose’s pension system offers a detailed look at how the costs of that city’s pensions outpaced its ability to pay for them, to the tune of $2...
View ArticleAlameda City Council okays balanced budget, prepares for long term
Alameda’s City Council okayed a fresh budget which council members hailed for its lack of impact to community services, though they also acknowledged that much more work needs to be done to steady the...
View ArticleThe Broad Brush: Your Alameda News in 60 Seconds
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your Alameda news in brief. Here’s what happened this week. Disabled servicemen and veterans competed in the four-day Valor Games Far West on Coast...
View ArticleThe Broad Brush: Your Alameda News in 60 Seconds
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your weekly, two-sentence local news review. Here are your Alameda headlines for the week. Firefighters quickly extinguished a vegetation fire that...
View ArticleAlameda okays two-year budget
City leaders on Tuesday unanimously okayed a $188 million budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 and a $174.4 million budget for 2016-17. “We’ve shown restraint. And we’ve also started to...
View ArticleThe Broad Brush: Your Alameda news in brief
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your weekly, two-sentence news review. Here’s what happened in Alameda this week. Students at Bay Farm School recently responded to First Lady...
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