#MACmtg: Live-blogging the Castro Valley MAC interviews

“The public is invited to observe” interviews that are being held on August 6, 2015 from  6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Castro Valley Library for the vacancy on the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC).

Castro Valley Matters will be live-blogging the event here and broadcasting the audio of the meeting live on our Mixlr page. We’ll also be updating our  Facebook and Twitter feeds. You can follow and join in on the conversation on social media at #MACmtg.

On Wednesday, Supervisor Nate Miley’s office confirmed that Mark Peterson withdrew from the interview process. There are now two candidates for the open MAC seat: Michael Baldwin and Linda Tangren.

On Thursday night,  members of Miley’s staff, his community cabinet, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the MAC will ask Baldwin and Tangren questions that will inform Miley as he decides which candidate to nominate and seek approval from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to serve a four-year-term on the MAC.

Here is a link to the statements that the candidates provided CVM.

Here is a link to the candidate responses to the questions provided by the panel.

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