MAC Vice Chair departs MAC, council down to five members
Tonight was Cheryl Miraglia’s last meeting as a member and Vice Chair of the Castro Valley MAC. With Miraglia’s resignation there will now be two open seats on the MAC. Supervisor Nate Miley appointed Chuck Moore and Janet Everson to the MAC in May 2015, but a third vacant seat remained …
Food truck organizers seek expansion, Village wants new location
Food Truck Mafia and the Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce want to add three more food trucks to the weekly Castro Valley food truck event, while Castro Village shopping center management asserts that long-term businesses and customers have been negatively impacted and the event should be moved to a different …
The Tale of Castro Valley’s Closed Schools
At Wednesday night’s Board meeting of the Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), the Board discussed a possible general obligation bond for school facilities. In October 1960, the area now covered by the CVUSD contained about 9,900 students, and was served by 13 elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school. …
How We Built the Old Castro Valley Library
One of the more popular conversation topics around town is “what the heck is going on with the old library building?” The Castro Valley MAC was asking the same thing of the County at the September 21st MAC meeting. Caroline Judy, the acting head of the Alameda County GSA (the …
Does Castro Valley matter to you?
Castro Valley Matters is a grassroots, all-volunteer group that seeks to engage more Castro Valley residents in decisions that affect our community. We have three goals for Castro Valley: We want democratic, representative, and accountable local governance for our unincorporated community. We seek to achieve greater place-making in CV by having …
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 …
County Report Views MAC as “Political Voice of the Community”
The Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) is the first and only MAC in Alameda County. Created in 1981, our MAC is the fourth oldest MAC in California, where an estimated 1.4 million residents in unincorporated Californian communities are served by a MAC or a “MAC Equivalent.” Before creating a MAC …
The Castro Valley MAC Selection Process Has Failed Castro Valley
Supervisor Nate Miley rejected the two finalists for an open seat on the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) after a multi-month selection process that included 16 applicants, candidate questionnaires, and two rounds of interviews where the Castro Valley public was invited to “observe.” It’s time for Castro Valley residents to …
MAC Non-Selection Announcement
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015, Supervisor Miley announced that “with the consensus of the interview panel” he was not appointing any candidate to the remaining open Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) seat. The process started in February 2015 with 16 candidates applying for three open Castro Valley MAC seats. …
The Norbridge Median Strip and the July 20, 2015 MAC Meeting
The 7/20/2015 Castro Valley MAC meeting included discussion of three options for relandscaping the Norbridge median. The representative from Questa Engineering explained their 3 options the cost differences, and the reasons behind this project. She mentioned that they had begun this project in the Fall, long before the new drought …