Please vote YES on P!
Please support Measure P! Measure P replaces Measure H – – which voters approved in November 2019. Measure H levied an annual special parcel tax of $0.25 (twenty-five cents) per square foot of building improvements. Measure H tax is for eight (8) years: from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2028. Measure H brings in…
Palestine & School Discussion
I understand that it’s going to be a topic with lots of emotion behind it, but it’s a really important issue that I think deserves to be discussed. Yes, the history of 100 years ago is important, but so is the history of today! I understand teachers have pressures on them that restrict them from…
2023 City of Piedmont Salaries — Coming Soon
The 2023 salaries of City of Piedmont will be coming soon. Currently Transparent California only displays 2022 salaries. https://transparentcalifornia.com
2023 PUSD Salaries
The 2023 salaries of Piedmont Unified School District employees are available to view on Transparent California: https://transparentcalifornia.com/ As a parent and resident, I find it unfathomable that the Director of Facilities, Peter Palmer, earns significantly more than our teachers. I understand that Mr. Palmer has a large task to maintain PUSD facilities, but we have…
Reach Codes banning gas appliances go away
Yowzers! Thank you to the 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court for ruling that local ordinances preventing the use of gas appliances are overridden by federal law! Big middle finger to the City Council for adopting those Reach Codes. This group of elected officials at the city are a bunch of clowns. A small…
Will Housing Displace Ace Hardware?
The Oakland A’s play their last game at the Coliseum this week. The prelude to that happened 25 years ago when Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb and Mayor Jerry Brown feuded over downtown development. Bobb wanted to redevelop the area between 880 and the Fox Theater for a downtown baseball stadium while Brown wanted 10,000…
Equitable Grading For Dummies
As a neighbor to PHS students, I have only recently heard of the term “equitable grading”. Having children out of college and off in the real world, has afforded me time to connect and converse with newer neighbors in my area who have PHS students. In one of these conversations, a parent mentioned the disconnect…
SB 9: City Council failed to protect us
On September 10, 2021, 241 charter cities signed a letter to Gavin Gruesome requesting a veto of SB 9 (Atkins). Why was Piedmont not one of those cities on the list? I see a few nearby cities on the list: Antioch, Concord, Burlingame, Foster City, Larkspur, Moraga, Orinda. Again, why did Piedmont not sign this…
Housing Element – Moraga Canyon Option – 60 of the Affordable Units will be PROPERTY TAX EXEMPT!
I have been disinterested in what has been happening with the Housing Element until I watched the Moraga Canyon Specific Plan on video. Takeaways: * 60 affordable units will most likely be property tax exempt! * Only the 70 market rate units will be billed for property taxes * The City Budget will remain neutral…