Does Castro Valley matter to you?

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CVMtoMeCastro 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 more public art and influencing how our public spaces are developed.
  • We seek to facilitate greater civic engagement. 

Help us achieve these goals by becoming a member of Castro Valley Matters.

Your annual membership of $35 helps us pay to maintain our blog, cover entrance fees to events like this weekend’s Fall Festival, and file for nonprofit status.

You don’t need to attend marathon Municipal Advisory Council meetings or pore over dry technical reports (although if you want to, please do!), but your membership helps others to do this. Help shed some light on important issues confronting Castro Valley and be part of crafting a vision to keep our town wonderful and make it even more so.

Stop by our booth at the Fall Festival to talk about your vision for Castro Valley, sign up to be a CVM member, and pick up our new “Castro Valley Matters to Me!” bumper sticker.

You can also drop us a line at info@castrovalleymatters.org or through the Castro Valley Matters Facebook page.

Engage, inform, promote, and advocate for a better Castro Valley with Castro Valley Matters.

Thanks for your support.

Thank you for your organization in promoting openess with regards to Castro Valley governance.

I have been attending meetings of the Castro Valley Sanitary District (CVSan). They mostly fly under the radar. I think it would be informative for CVMatters to notice CVSan’s general board meetings as well as its committee meetings. Anyone that wants to receive the meeting agenda packets in advance of the meetings (usually 4 days in advance), which also alerts you to when the meetings are, can email Stacey Marcoux at stacy@cvsan.org to request the agenda packets via email. Simply request copies of the agenda packets for all the board meetings and all committee meetings.

Thanks again for all you work and dedication. Ken Owen 510-583-0984

Ken,

Thank you for your thoughtful response — and all the time you’ve spent at CVSan meetings! While we had some coverage of the Canyonlands trash saga, we have not recently covered CVSan meetings. We will start by adding them to our event calendar: https://castrovalleymatters.org/events/

Do you mind if I follow up with you via email to learn more about your specific interest in CVSan, and if you’d like to bring that knowledge and background to CVMatters? Thanks!

I’m the public outreach specialist at CVSan and wanted to add our voice to this dialogue. We’re aware of the good work CVMatters does for the community and strive to maintain openness in our governance.

We appreciate and welcome the opportunity to provide notice of our public board and committee meetings, and we even have a Community Advisory Committee. We currently do all of the required meeting notices and in addition provide updates through our website, social media, and the Castro Valley Forum. We’ve taken several steps to provide meaningful information to the community and our yearly calendar and annual report is mailed to everyone in Castro Valley. We fully understand that we are here to serve the community of Castro Valley and we take our responsibilities seriously.

Thanks for your note Allena. We’d love to have our community calendar include CVSan’s meetings and also some blogging about the issues that your agency tackles. Please send me an email at michaelkusiak@yahoo.com.

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