UPDATED: ALAMEDA FIRE CHIEF ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
1, September 2, 2010 – 10:43 am | 8 Comments

Updated 1:23 p.m. Thursday, September 2
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler has been placed on administrative leave following revelations he used the city’s gas pumps to fuel his personal vehicles and that he had faced similar …

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Measure H case: The decision
1, June 4, 2010 – 4:40 am | One Comment
Measure H case: The decision

Wanted to post a quick follow-up once I got my hands on the actual decision by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr on the Measure H invalidation suits before him in court. In …

COURT RULES FOR DISTRICT IN H CASE; PLAINTIFFS VOW APPEAL
1, June 3, 2010 – 1:33 pm | 9 Comments
COURT RULES FOR DISTRICT IN H CASE; PLAINTIFFS VOW APPEAL

Updated 2:17 p.m. Thursday, June 3
An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ruled as anticipated against local property owners who sued the Alameda Unified School District in an effort to invalidate Measure H, saying the …

REPLACEMENT PARCEL TAX HEADED TO JUNE BALLOT
1, March 16, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
REPLACEMENT PARCEL TAX HEADED TO JUNE BALLOT

Alameda’s Board of Education voted 4-1 Monday evening to ask voters to replace the school district’s existing parcel taxes with a new one that would generate twice as much money. The tax, which would last …

Parcel tax decision could come tonight
1, March 15, 2010 – 6:00 am | 3 Comments
Parcel tax decision could come tonight

By Michele Ellson
The Board of Education is set to consider tonight whether to ask voters to approve a parcel tax to replace the ones local property owners now pay.
District staff is recommending the board ask …

Teacher layoff notifications okayed
1, March 10, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Teacher layoff notifications okayed

The Board of Education undertook the grim task Tuesday night of approving notifications to dozens of teachers that they could be laid off at the end of the school year.
The district could cut the full-time …

School board gets parcel tax recommendation
1, February 23, 2010 – 5:55 am | 3 Comments
School board gets parcel tax recommendation

Schools Superintendent Kirsten Vital is set to recommend that the Board of Education ask Alameda voters to approve a new parcel tax to replace its existing taxes, Measures A and H. Vital is asking the …

School board to talk tax
1, February 9, 2010 – 6:00 am | No Comment
School board to talk tax

The Board of Education is set to talk about different scenarios for a new, replacement parcel tax, one of many big items on an action-packed agenda tonight.
District staff will present scenarios for generating between $12 …

Updated: School board considers parcel tax plan
1, January 13, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Updated: School board considers parcel tax plan

Updated 10:49 a.m. Wednesday, January 13
The Board of Education accepted recommendations Tuesday night on how a new parcel tax for Alameda’s schools should be structured and began the process of hashing out what it will …

Group makes progress toward new parcel tax
1, January 12, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Group makes progress toward new parcel tax

A committee set up by Alameda Unified to help create a new parcel tax for the district has a set of suggestions for how the tax should be structured, but stopped short of saying how …

UPDATED H CASES COULD SETTLE
1, August 13, 2009 – 1:52 pm | No Comment
UPDATED H CASES COULD SETTLE

Updated 4:04 p.m.
The Alameda Unified School District and businesses who sued over the Measure H parcel tax could settle the cases, attorneys working on them said today.
David Nied, an attorney working for the district, said …

UPDATED Businesses appeal to public on school tax
1, July 31, 2009 – 5:50 am | 3 Comments
UPDATED Businesses appeal to public on school tax

Updated 11:48 a.m. Friday, July 31
Facing serious challenges to their lawsuits to invalidate Measure H, local businesses are taking their case against the school parcel tax to the public.
Steve Meckfessel, an owner of the marina …