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EALI Governance to meet again, no mention of elected MAC in agenda

The Eden Area Livability Initiative (EALI) Governance Working Group meets on Thursday night at 7:00 at the San Lorenzo library to continue the conversation about various scenarios for local governance reform for the unincorporated communities. At the last EALI Governance Working Group meeting, the committee passed two resolutions. Resolution#1 – MACs for …

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Governance resolutions, including elected MAC, move forward at EALI

Wednesday night’s Eden Area Livability Initiative (EALI) Governance  meeting was a huge win for moving the process of unincorporated governance forward and, coincidentally, for finally extracting any implementation steps from this group who’ve worked very hard for many, many years to gain more local control for all of the “Eden Area” …

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Overwhelming support for elected MAC at town hall, but what next?

Over 200 people crowded into the Canyon Middle School cafeteria last Monday for an elected Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) town hall. The audience heard from county staff about different scenarios on how to convert the MAC to an elected body and from opponents and proponents of the proposal. The audience also spent …

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Castro Valley Educational Leaders Endorse Elected MAC

Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education Trustees Gary Howard, John Barbieri, and Charmaine Banther, and Retired CVUSD Superintendent Jim Negri have endorsed an elected Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council. They join CVUSD Trustee Dot Theodore in their support of an elected MAC. “Castro Valley is one of the largest …

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More Community Leaders Endorse an Elected MAC

Local community leaders continue to come out in favor of electing the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC). The latest two are Dennis Waespi, and Andy Frank. Dennis Waespi has served on the East Bay Regional Park District Board since 2014.  He also served on the Castro Valley Sanitary District Board …

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Elected MAC Resource Page

We’ve compiled all kinds of good information about the elected MAC idea into one simple page for your convenience. Click here to check it out!

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An Elected MAC for Castro Valley

  We, the people of Castro Valley, should decide who speaks for Castro Valley. An elected MAC is the best way to achieve this today. Elections are the most democratic way for CV residents to select their MAC representatives and would cost just 81 cents per voter per year. Elected …

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CVSan Board Member Melody Appleton endorses elected MAC

Castro Valley Sanitary District (CVSan) Board Member Melody Appleton, who was the top vote-getter in the 2014 election for one of two seats on the CVSan board and is a member of Castro Valley Matters, has endorsed an elected MAC for Castro Valley. I support an elected MAC for the …

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An Affordable Way to Get an Elected MAC in 2016

Time and again, we have been told that having an elected  Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) would be an expensive and pointless endeavor.  Last year, I wrote an article deflating the arguments floated at the time of an election for MAC costing up to $500,000 every two years.  Although completely without …

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An Elected MAC — Affordable for Candidates Too!

In previous blog posts, we’ve talked about the potential to have our Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) elected rather than appointed, as it is now, by County Supervisor Nate Miley. Many objections have been raised, one of which is the potentially prohibitive costs to potential MAC candidates. We’ve been …

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